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We are excited to launch the 2020 edition of our Global Bank Review, #disruption.
While the banks sector has faced significant challenges before, the depth and breadth of Covid-19’s disruption has left banks in the position of having to brace for impact to their own businesses, whilst simultaneously demonstrating a change in culture, providing support to vulnerable customers, and supplying vital credit for regrowing our economies. Read more
Our global Fintech team looks ahead to what 2021 holds for the sector, including fundraising, partnerships, M&A, and regulatory developments. Read more
In this blog post, we round-up forthcoming developments in the UK and at EU and International levels in financial services regulation which are expected for October 2020.Read more
Join our experts in financial services, cyber and data security, data privacy, outsourcing and digital disruption, together with Deloitte’s Customer Breach Support team, as they share their experience of operational disruption. Read more
Herbert Smith Freehills LLP’s Seventh Annual Corporate Crime & Investigations (“CC&I”) Conference is being held as a Global Conference Series of webinars over the upcoming months. The first webinar took place on 18 June 2020 and covered the topic of “CC&I in the time of Covid-19”. The second took place on 16 July 2020 and covered the topic of “2020 Developments in Anti-Bribery and Corruption and Deferred Prosecution Agreements”. The third took place on 20 August 2020 and covered the topic of “Sanctions developments in a turbulent global environment”.Read more
A letter to the European Commission dated 18 August 2020 from the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has been published. Ostensibly relating to the upcoming review of the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD), it is, true to recent EU legislative form, expansive in its ambition and has raised a number of questions around potential impacts on the whole of the fund management industry, including the Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS).Read more
In this blog post, we round-up forthcoming developments in the UK and at EU and International levels in financial services regulation which are expected for September 2020.Read more
Welcome to the August 2020 edition of our corporate crime update - our round up of developments in relation to corruption, money laundering, fraud, sanctions and related matters. Read more
The European Commission has published its proposals for an EU legislative solution for the transition of legacy LIBOR contracts.
In this blog post, we provide an overview of the Commission’s proposals; compare the legislative solutions from the UK, US and EU; and comment on the effect this EU law development is likely to have on LIBOR transition risk. Read more
