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.

Thomas v Frogmore: COMI Factors and Improper Motive Reviewed

This article was originally published in International Corporate Rescue, Volume 14 Issue 5, 2017.  Please click here to read the original article.

The new Data Protection Bill has already had its first and second readings in the House of Lords and will replace the UK’s current Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) along with the general Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) on 25 May 2018. Also whatever happens regarding Brexit, the UK has committed to retaining the same principles and laws regarding Data Protection whether or not the UK is in the EU. UK companies should now be taking appropriate steps to ensure that they will be compliant with the new GDPR requirements.

Why the importance?

November 2017 On 27 October the Treasury Committee published a report on the Solvency II Directive and its impact on the UK insurance industry. The report is critical of the extent of disagreement between the PRA and the industry. It makes a number of recommendations, the majority of which are aimed at the PRA. Some of these recommendations were preempted by the PRA’s announcement on 25 October of a series of improvements it is intending to make to implementation of Solvency II and its publication of a consultation paper on the matching adjustment.

October 2017

INSURE

InSure

This month's roundup of developments affecting the insurance industry sees ECON calling on the European Commission to postpone the application date of the IDD, EIOPA issuing final guidelines on complex insurance-based investment products under the IDD and the European Commission releasing a report on consumers' decision-making process in insurance services.

General Update

EU requirement for national insolvency registers to be established in all Member States (Recast Insolvency Regulation 2015 ((EU) 2015/848))

Will Nevin Partner T +44 20 7466 2199 [email protected]

UK TIMELINE

Kevin Pullen Partner T +44 20 7466 2976 [email protected]

2017Q4 (Oct-Dec)

BANKING

ECON votes to adopt draft report on proposed BRRD Insolvency Hierarchy Directive

The INSOL International Channel Islands Seminar took place on 13 September 2017 in Guernsey, where tensions rose high as jurisdictions battled it out for the crown of the "go-to" jurisdiction for cross border restructurings.

In our update this month we take a look at a case in which a non-party costs order was made against a major shareholder in the insolvent claimant company. The court found that the shareholder was the real party to the litigation; it funded the litigation, it was exercising control over the litigation and it would have been the main beneficiary had the litigation succeeded. We cover this, and other issues affecting the insolvency and fraud industry:

Montpelier Business Reorganisation Ltd v Jones & Others (2017)

Background

What is the GDPR?