PRA updates remuneration policy statement for PRA category 1 and 2 firm • PRA publishes CP24/17: Solvency II: internal models - modelling of the matching adjustment • PRA publishes CP23/17: Financial management and planning by insurers • Wholesale insurance brokers market study launched by the FCA • The FCA's future approach to consumers • PRA publishes CP22/17: Solvency II: Supervisory approval for the volatility adjustment • FCA publishes PS17/24: Handbook changes to reflect the new regulatory framework for insurance-linked securities - feedback to CP16/34 and CP17/3 and near-final rules
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ADVISORY & FINANCIAL REGULATORY GROUP WEEKLY NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 6, 2017 Financial Regulatory Developments Focus In this week’s newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, 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.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ADVISORY & FINANCIAL REGULATORY GROUP NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 21, 2017 Financial Regulatory Developments Focus In this week’s newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, 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.
FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS ADVISORY & FINANCIAL REGULATORY GROUP NEWSLETTER JANUARY 10, 2018 ISSUE 1/2018 Financial Regulatory Developments Focus 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.
The ACT Borrower's Guide to the LMA's Investment Grade Agreements
Produced by
The ACT Borrower's Guide to the LMA's Investment Grade Agreements
produced by Slaughter and May 5th Edition 1 September 2017
This guide has been produced for the ACT by Slaughter and May to provide assistance to corporate treasurers reviewing draft facility agreements based on the LMA documentation for investment grade borrowers.
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ADVISORY | DISPUTES | TRANSACTIONS Make insolvency great again February 2017 One of the great criticisms of the new President of the United States of America is that his companies filed for bankruptcy four times when he was a business mogul. In truth Donald Trump utilised various provisions of Chapter 11 of the US Bankruptcy Code to restructure his businesses. In an effort to encourage a similar level of entrepreneurial spirit, a mere 14 days after his election the EU Commission unveiled plans to adopt a pan-European regime which closely mirrors much of the US’s Chapter 11.
If 2016 ended with more questions than answers as to how Brexit would take shape, 2017 began with at least a little more clarity.
There has been great discussion over the course of INSOL on the various restructuring and insolvency reforms being considered or implemented globally. In the break out session ‘The good, the bad and the ugly: national and regional law reforms’, panellists drilled down into the detail of some of these reforms. The panel considered reforms in the EU (Prof. Christoph Paulus, Hamboldt-Universitat zu Berlin), the UK (Mark Craggs, Norton Rose Fulbright LLP), Singapore (Sushil Nair, Drew & Napier LLC), and the US (Donald S.
In a highly-anticipated decision on a long-running bondholder dispute, the US Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit issued its judgment last week in Marblegate Asset Management LLC v Education Management Corp. It concluded that “Section 316(b) [of the US Trust Indenture Act 1939] prohibits only non-consensual amendments to an indenture’s core payment terms”, i.e. the amount of principal and interest owed and the maturity date.