08 Mar, 2024 Spring Budget 2024: The Hunt for Blue October By Alison Dickie Laura Western In an unusually rowdy House of Commons, the Chancellor delivered what will be his last Spring Budget before a UK general election widely...
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...
28 Jun, 2023 Proposals to clarify and modernise the UK’s transfer pricing, diverted profits tax and permanent establishment rules By Edward Buxton Helen Buchanan Sarah Bond On 19 June 2023, the UK Government published a consultation on reforms intended to clarify and modernise the UK’s transfer pricing (TP),...
04 Mar, 2021 How will the UK Spring Budget 2021 affect your business? By Alison Dickie The UK Chancellor Rishi Sunak has delivered his second Budget in extraordinary circumstances as the UK continues to deal with the impact...
01 Mar, 2021 Memorandum of understanding on financial services: A stepping stone to ensuring equivalence? By Elisabeth Overland The current negotiations on financial services regulation between the UK and the EU is the talk of the town on both sides of the Channel....
12 Jan, 2021 The UK’s approach to supervision of international banks: responsible openness and steady as she goes. By Melanie Fitzsimons Michael Raffan The significant restructuring of financial services firms’ operations and “changes in the international footprint of many firms” as a...
07 Jan, 2021 EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement: financial services By Melanie Fitzsimons Anthony Parry Ashley Jones With hours to go to the end of the Brexit transition period deadline, the EU-UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) was signed by both...
21 Dec, 2020 OPE springs eternal: UK Treasury calls for evidence on how financial services can be provided by overseas persons By Claire Harrop James Smethurst The UK has long allowed non-UK institutions to provide financial services to customers in the UK under a variety of different regimes. ...
08 Oct, 2020 UK financial services regulators’ temporary transitional powers – the clock starts to run By Cyrus Pocha Melanie Fitzsimons Claudia Rugue With the end of the Brexit transition period approaching, the UK financial services regulators – the Bank of England (BoE), Prudential...
24 Jun, 2020 Beyond transition – some clarity on UK financial services reforms By Melanie Fitzsimons Mark Kalderon James Smethurst In a series of ministerial written statements, consultations and discussion papers, HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
01 May, 2020 A matter of equivalence: UK government proposes new overseas funds regime By Emma Rachmaninov Jonas Zenger The UK government has launched a consultation on how overseas retail and money market funds can be sold to UK investors following the end...
13 Feb, 2020 Report on the UK’s regulatory framework after Brexit: the logical, the reasonable and the ambitious By Mark Kalderon The government and the UK regulators have taken steps to ensure that the UK regulatory system can continue to function effectively...