REGULATORY & GOVERNMENTAL AFFAIRS Noerr EUROPANEWS Issue 32/2018 08 – 12 October 2018 Content LAW ___________________________________________________________________________________________ 1 POLITICS/GENERAL _______________________________________________________________________________ 2 DECISIONS ______________________________________________________________________________________ 3 FROM THE OJEU _________________________________________________________________________________ 3 BRUSSELS INTERN ______________________________________________
Insurance Quarterly Legal and Regulatory
Update
Period covered: 1 July 2018 30 September 2018
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Introduction Following recent proposed changes to UK restructuring and insolvency law, a new European Union (“EU”) directive concerning restructuring within EU Member States proposed by the European Commission (“Commission”) has reached an advanced stage.
FINANCIAL REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS FOCUS JUNE 7, 2018 ISSUE 22 In this week’s newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and corporates. Click here if you wish to access our Practice Group/Industry website. IN THIS ISSUE Bank Prudential Regulation & Regulatory Capital ..............................................................................................
Basel and other regulators seem to regard credit risk as being under control and have identified reputational and IT risks – risk you cannot close off with prudential capital charges – as the sources of the next crisis. Another one being talked about is potential illiquidity for funds, which are buying more illiquid assets in the hunt for yield.
On 18 January 2017, EU Regulation n°655/2014 establishing a European Account Preservation Order ("EAPO") procedure became fully applicable in all Member States, with the exception of Denmark and the United Kingdom. |
English Law Challenges to EU Bank Restructurings Firmly Closed off by U.K. Supreme Court
Summary – Decision of U.K. Supreme Court
EU (Withdrawal) Bill may be passed by UK Parliament. Its purpose is to repeal the European Communities Act 1972 and, so far as possible, import EU law that would otherwise fall away into UK law
The Construction (Retention Deposit Schemes) Bill is expected to have its second reading debate
MAY 23, 2018/20 FINANCIAL REGULATORY DEVELOPMENTS FOCUS Proxima Nova A ExCn 35pt In this week’s newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal U.S., European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and corporates. Click here if you wish to access our Financial Regulatory Developments website. IN THIS ISSUE AML/CTF, Sanctions and Insider Trading ..............................................................................................................
Obvious issues which come up in a cross-border insolvency context include the jurisdiction / court in which proceedings should be commenced (choice of jurisdiction), which law should be applied to resolve a particular problem (choice of law) whether the judgment of one court will be recognized and enforced in another court (recognition) and how parallel insolvency processes relating to the same debtor should interact (co-operation).
The EIR