29 Feb, 2024 FCA consultation on publicising investigations: Balancing transparency and collateral damage? By Lucy Clark Ali Sallaway On 27 February 2024, the FCA announced a consultation on proposed amendments to its existing enforcement policy. These include proposals...
14 Feb, 2024 Sexism in the City: the FCA's latest efforts to tackle non-financial misconduct in the workplace By Holly Insley Chantelle Nicholas Anika Prasad The FCA has taken another notable step as part of its efforts to crack down on non-financial misconduct in the workplace. As we noted in...
12 Feb, 2024 New market investigation powers of the Italian Antitrust Authority - Council of State confirms they apply to all economic sectors By Gian Luca Zampa Ermelinda Spinelli Alessandro Di Giò Alberto Galasso +1 more... Show less In its opinion of 29 January 2024, the Italian Council of State (CdS) published its views on the scope of application of the new market...
07 Feb, 2024 FCA enforcement - Not the only show in town By Thomas Clark Sharon Grennan We have published an article on recent UK financial services enforcement and emerging trends. There has been a decline in the number and...
06 Feb, 2024 UK PRA updates its enforcement policies – but will this mean faster investigations and a change in penalty levels? By Thomas Clark Sharon Grennan Following a consultation last year, the Bank of England policy statement (PS01/24) introduces changes to the Prudential Regulation...
11 Dec, 2023 Compliance duties on German boards – 10 years on from the landmark decision in Siemens v. Neubürger By Nicholas Schoch Cristina Hajek Gross Felix Mayer Introduction Yesterday (10 December 2023) was the tenth anniversary of what must be the most cited decision when it comes to board-level...
25 Sep, 2023 A new toolkit for gender-inclusive competition law By Morag Elwis Nicholas French Kaori Yamada Ermelinda Spinelli Vanessa van Weelden +2 more... Show less Until recently, competition policy has been considered through a gender-neutral lens – focused on “average” consumers, characterised by...
15 Sep, 2023 The cost of a £250 withdrawal: latest UK sanctions developments By Jonathan Kelly Simon Orton Rebecca Freedman The UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) recently issued its first “disclosure notice” and, on the same day, updated...
14 Sep, 2023 Russia Sanctions: Forced administration of subsidiaries of Western groups in Russia By Lukas Pomaroli Dr. Stephan Denk Stephanie Brown Cripps Daniel Gruenwald +1 more... Show less Over the course of the last months, the Russian government has ramped up its “countermeasures” intended to counteract the effect of...
11 Jul, 2023 Germany Turning Up the Heat on Malfunctioning Markets (but which ones?) By Thomas Lübbig Mariusz Motyka-Mojkowski Malte Symann Marleen Franka Böhm Stefanie Engineer +2 more... Show less Lawmaking in Germany can be turbulent at times but the German Bundestag – i.e., the parliamentary groups of the ‘traffic light coalition’...
21 Jun, 2023 A further expansion of the UK corporate crime enforcement toolkit By Ben Morgan Emily Knight Zaid Fathoala In a nutshell Recent amendments to the UK's Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill), announced on 15 June, could...
30 May, 2023 Works council remuneration remains in spotlight in Germany By Flavia Lang Torsten Lauth In January of this year, the German Federal Court of Justice (Bundesgerichtshof – BGH) ruled in on the unduly high remuneration granted...