“It really is saving us a huge number of hours over the days, weeks and months. Having more relevant support at hand, not having to draft or review documents them from scratch - it all adds up.”
Southampton FCAccess all documents on Event report
In this issue: UK, EU and international regulators and bodies Authorisation, approval and supervision Accountability, culture and social governance Prudential requirements Operational resilience Financial crime and sanctions Complaints, compensation and claims management Investigations, enforcement and discipline Regulation of capital markets Regulation of derivatives Banks and mutuals Investment funds and asset management MiFID II Regulation of insurance Payment services and systems Fintech and cryptoassets Financial Services Enforcement Database Daily and weekly news alerts Intraday news alerts New and updated content Dates for your diary UK, EU and international regulators and bodies ESAs highlight role of behavioural insights in supervisory and policy work The three European Supervisory Authorities — the European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) — have issued a joint report arising from their February 2024 workshop on integrating...
In this issue: Commercial Data protection and cybersecurity Financial services Energy Environment IP Life sciences TMT Daily and weekly news alerts Trackers New and updated content Commercial Viagogo commits to better inform consumers of the resale of tickets The European Commission has confirmed that Viagogo, an online marketplace for second-hand event tickets, has pledged to stop pressuring consumers with excessive countdown prompts and to provide clearer details about ticket resale conditions in line with EU consumer protection rules. This follows numerous complaints submitted to the Commission and national consumer authorities. Viagogo will roll out website changes by the end of August 2024, including clearer ticket ranking in search results, fewer countdown notices on the site, and early disclosure on the ticket selection page of whether the ticket seller is a trader or another consumer. Viagogo has also committed, by the end of August 2024, to make changes and clarifications to several clauses...
In this issue: Arbitration under the AA 1996 Act International arbitration Investment treaty arbitration Institutional and ad hoc arbitration Other arbitration and ADR-related news and developments Daily and weekly news alerts New and updated content Useful information Arbitration under the AA 1996 Act Conflicting arbitration and jurisdiction clauses—principles of contractual construction and relevance of a ‘confusion clause’ The judgment in Tyson International Company Ltd v GIC Re [2025] EWHC 77 (Comm) is significant for parties and their legal advisers grappling with contracts that include competing jurisdiction and arbitration provisions. A dispute over insurance cover arose between the claimant and the defendant reinsurer. The parties had executed two sets of policy documentation. The first set featured an exclusive jurisdiction clause in favour of the courts of England, alongside an English choice of law clause. The second set incorporated an arbitration agreement calling for arbitration seated in New York and the application of New York law. The...
Mitigating the risk You should establish procedures requiring staff to disclose (usually to the nominated officer) any knowledge or suspicion concerning: money laundering, terrorist financing or proliferation financing sanctions breaches fraud tax evasion bribery and corruption organised crime See further section: Mitigating the risk. The nominated officer is, in specified situations, obliged to relay that knowledge or suspicion to the National Crime Agency (NCA) by submitting a suspicious activity report (SAR), or, depending on the report’s character, to another authority via suitable routes. The NCA assigns SARs to trained financial crime investigators for further enquiries. Intelligence derived from SARs may then be passed by the NCA to other law enforcement or government agencies (LEAs), which may require additional information. Where LEAs seek more material following a SAR, it will generally be obtained through enforcement action, usually by way of a production order. This How-to guide offers direction on managing financial crime investigations and addresses related topics such...
This Practice Note addresses the disclosure duties applying from 6 April 2014 to occupational and personal pension schemes under the Occupational and Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 2013, SI 2013/2734 (the 2013 Disclosure Regulations). For information on disclosure requirements that apply outside the 2013 Disclosure Regulations, see Practice Note: Event-specific disclosure requirements for occupational and personal pension schemes. For details of the disclosure requirements that applied before 6 April 2014 to occupational and personal pension schemes, see Practice Notes: Occupational pension schemes—disclosure requirements before 6 April 2014 (ARCHIVED) and Personal pension schemes—disclosure requirements before 6 April 2014 [Archived]. In this Practice Note, references to ‘trustees’ include, in the context of a contract-based scheme, the managers of the scheme. Introduction of new disclosure regime from 6 April 2014 The 2013 Disclosure Regulations took effect on 6 April 2014, amalgamating the disclosure provisions previously set out in: the Occupational Pension Schemes (Disclosure of Information) Regulations 1996, SI 1996/1655—repealed, and the Personal Pension Schemes (Disclosure...
Issue Details Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident Parties: 136 (including 4 non-State parties) Location: Vienna Adopted: 26 September 1986 Came into force: 27 October 1986 Subject: Requirement for prompt notification of nuclear accident What is the background to the 1986 Vienna Convention? The Convention on Early Notification of a Nuclear Accident creates a system to alert other States about nuclear events with potential transboundary releases of radiological safety significance. Triggered by the USSR’s failure to share information promptly after Chernobyl, it compels States to provide the accident’s timing, location, details of radioactive releases, and other data vital for assessing the situation. Notices must be sent to potentially affected States directly or via the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), and to the IAEA itself. Reporting is obligatory for nuclear accidents linked to the facilities and activities identified in Article 1, while Article 3 allows States to notify other incidents. China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom (UK)...
[ Letterhead ] [ Addressed to reporting body’s customer compliance manager (CCM) or, if none, the office to which the reporting body’s corporation tax returns are made ] [ Date ] [ Name of company that is the reporting body [and its tax reference number ] Report under the international movement of capital rules in Schedule 17 to the Finance Act 2009 This correspondence constitutes the report that must be provided by [ name of the reporting body ] in relation to the [ event OR transaction OR series of events OR series of transactions ] outlined below (the Report). [ The [ name of the reporting body ] is appointed as the nominated reporting body for the following companies: [ insert the names of the other UK corporate parents who have entered into nomination arrangements appointing the company issuing this letter as their nominated reporting body ]. ] 1 Parties involved in the [ event [ s ] OR transaction [ s...
1 L&D events/courses delivered this month Official L&D programme/session title Lead facilitator Delegate headcount Mean feedback rating Participant comments 2 Scheduled L&D events/courses Reporting month L&D programme/session title Event location Booked delegate numbers Any further notes 3 L&D events/courses in development L&D programme/session title Concise overview Intended audience Anticipated launch date Current status 4 L&D issue log Identified issue Suggested action Current status Next scheduled review Record owner 5 Requests not yet scheduled L&D programme/session title Requested by Business rationale Current status ...