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On 3 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Bank of England (BoE) published a consultation paper setting out their proposals to implement and operate the new Digital Securities Sand...
Author(s): James Smethurst, Christopher Bernard, Olivia Davies
The consultation period for CP24/2 closed on Tuesday, marking the end of (at least the first phase of) what has been widely perceived to be one of the FCA’s most contentious policy proposals of recent...
Author(s): Lucy Clark, Ali Sallaway
Artificial intelligence (AI) – and particularly generative AI – has accelerated the race toward ever more innovative data-driven products and services, and sharpened focus on the ever-growing importan...
Author(s): Beth George, Christine Lyon, Pamela Marcogliese
As part of its wider focus on sustainability and greenwashing, on 23 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Consultation Paper (CP 24/8) on extending the Sustainability Disclosu...
Author(s): Elisabeth Overland, Oliver Schonle
The FCA has published its finalised guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, alongside a consultation paper (which we summarise here) on the regulator’s proposal to extend the Sustainability Disclosure...
Author(s): Luke FitzGerald, Elisabeth Overland
To much excitement and fanfare, former Italian Prime Minister Enrico Letta published his report on strengthening the EU Single Market. The 147-page report, which comes a few months before pivotal EU 2...
Author(s): Jimena Gonzalez, Kieran Watkins
In recent years, parties bringing court proceedings against Russian counterparties have faced severe obstacles when effecting service in Russia. In principle, the Hague Service Convention requires Rus...
Author(s): Boris Kasolowsky, Carsten Wendler, Leane Meyer, Hager Sameh
German arbitration law provides a rarely used remedy in the form of Section 1032(2) German Code of Civil Procedure (CCP). This provision allows parties to obtain a declaration that arbitration is the ...