3/14/2025 5:34:55 PM THE PROCUREMENT ACT 2023 AND TAX: WHAT HEADS OF TAX AND LEGAL TEAMS NEED TO KNOW By Sarah Bond Kate Gough Edward Buxton The Procurement Act 2023 came into force on 24 February 2025. As with the regime the Act replaces, suppliers to the UK government risk...
3/14/2025 1:41:10 PM Recalibrating Compliance Programs Under Trump 2.0 By Adam Siegel Eric Bruce Daniel Cendan Emmeline Chen +1 more... Show less Nearly two months into his second presidential term, President Trump and his Administration have engaged in a flurry of activity, issuing...
3/13/2025 12:06:32 PM FCA publicity consultation: Back to where we started? By Lucy Clark The FCA yesterday announced that it will not be pursuing much of its controversial proposed policy on publicising investigations (which...
3/13/2025 10:14:12 AM D&I in Financial Services - FCA and PRA walk back diversity and inclusion rule reforms By David Mendel Sophie Cameron Amelia Lamp The chiefs of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced by letter that they are...
3/12/2025 4:16:22 PM Out of the black box – a harmonised approach to AML fines? By Jan Struckmann Alicia Hildner Hardly a month goes by without reports of ever-increasing fines being imposed on financial institutions in the area of anti-money...
3/10/2025 11:35:17 AM FCA sets out supervision priorities for asset managers and alternatives firms By Emma Rachmaninov Elisabeth Overland Christopher Bernard Shuke Wen +1 more... Show less On 26 February 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a portfolio letter addressed to CEOs of firms in the asset...
3/7/2025 10:20:31 PM Will you be directly supervised by AMLA? – Draft RTS on the selection of obliged entities for direct AMLA supervision published By Jan Struckmann Alicia Hildner A key pillar of the new European AML Package, which entered into force in 2024 (see our client briefing for an overview) was the...
3/7/2025 1:18:50 PM Employment Rights Bill – latest changes announced By Holly Insley Sophie Cameron The Employment Rights Bill (ERB) was first published in October 2024, back in the early months of the new Labour Government which was...
3/7/2025 11:39:29 AM FCA review of ongoing advice services By Emma Rachmaninov Elisabeth Overland Sharon Tong Eden Elder +1 more... Show less On 24 February, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published the findings from its review of ongoing advice services provided by 22 of...
3/6/2025 11:49:11 AM UK advertising regulator hones in on “online choice architecture” and “dark patterns” By Andrew Austin Rachel Duffy Honor May On 27 February 2025, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) published an overview of how advertising involving “dark patterns” is...
3/6/2025 11:01:10 AM Moving goalposts of the German transaction value threshold: An end to broad and vague interpretations at last? By Peter Niggemann Frank Montag Ilka Oberländer Dominic Divivier Vera Barthel-Westphal Jonas Levermann Miriam Swamy +4 more... Show less Since it was introduced to German merger control in 2017, the transaction value threshold has caused significant uncertainties for...
3/3/2025 6:37:33 PM Freshfields Authors Chapter on Strategic Considerations for Companies Navigating Sanctions Processes at the Leading Multilateral Development Banks By Adam Siegel Daniel Cendan Justin Simeone The sanctions processes within the leading multilateral development banks (MDBs) can result in serious consequences for the people and...