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What would ‘Brexit’ mean for Europe’s capital markets? Clifford Chance report analyses the legal and regulatory challenges
March 21st, 2016
AFME has today published a report, commissioned from Clifford Chance, which analyses the potential impact of a UK exit from the EU on Europe’s capital markets. The report, entitled “The UK Referendum: Challenges for Europe’s Capital Markets”, was written ...
China to ease commercial banks’ bad debt burden via equity swaps
March 10th, 2016
China’s central bank is preparing regulations that would allow commercial lenders to swap non-performing loans of companies for stakes in those firms, two people with direct knowledge of the new policy told Reuters. The new rules would reduce commercial ...
Online abuse and cyber crime bill introduced by MP
March 9th, 2016
A bill to tackle online abuse and cyber crime is being introduced by Plaid Cymru MP Liz Saville Roberts. It aims to make it an offence to post content that is discriminatory, threatening and causes distress. Internet service providers ...
Brokers and Big Oil Fight Obama Rush to Make Rules by May Cutoff
March 8th, 2016
Rules imposed on or after May 17 have higher risk of repeal Mandates touch on investment advice and workplace safety The Obama administration is in a mad rush to draft regulations before the clock runs out and an obscure ...
CySec suspended the license of a Cyprus Investment Firm
March 7th, 2016
The Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySec), has announced that: The authorisation of the Cyprus Investment Firm ‘Pegase Capital Ltd’, number 225/14, is suspended, pursuant to section 26(2) of the Investment Services and Activities and Regulated Markets Law of ...
Microsoft, Google Join Rivals to Back Apple in FBI Fight
March 4th, 2016
Tech competitors argue privacy, security threatened in case San Bernardino shooting victim among those supporting Apple Tech giants including Microsoft Corp. and Google set aside often fierce rivalries to back Apple Inc. in its fight against a judge’s order ...
HMRC: ‘Persuasive promoters’ lure taxpayers into avoidance schemes
March 2nd, 2016
AN INVESTIGATION into tax avoidance schemes has revealed that people are regularly introduced to avoidance arrangements via family, friends and accountancy firms, despite being aware that they are ‘unusual’ and ‘at the edge of tax law’. The HMRC report attempted to understand ...
CETA: EU and Canada agree on new approach on investment in trade agreement
March 1st, 2016
This agreement is a clear break from the current ISDS system and shows the commitment to work together to establish a multilateral investment tribunal. The European Commission and the Canadian Government have agreed to include a new approach on ...
High Court dismisses KPMG and Barclays swaps scheme
February 25th, 2016
Britain’s biggest banks narrowly avoided a major legal challenge today, when a High Court judge dismissed a case relating to the mis-selling of rate swap products. The case could have had far-reaching implications for a multi-billion pound scheme to compensate victims of ...
Spate of broker licences sparks hope in UAE
February 24th, 2016
The distribution of new broker licences in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) in the first few weeks of 2016 has raised hopes the industry regulator is poised to further open up the market. The Insurance Authority (IA) has licensed ...
