Tag:financial services

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Australia: Climate-related Financial Disclosure: Exposure Draft Legislation
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Australia: ASIC Extends Transitional Relief For Foreign Financial Service Providers
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Europe: UK’s FCA Challenges Firms to Improve Sanction Screening Processes
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Europe: At Last, the UK and EU are Due to Begin Active Post-Brexit Cooperation on Financial Services Matters

Australia: Climate-related Financial Disclosure: Exposure Draft Legislation

By: Lisa Lautier and Rebecca Mangos

The Australian Government has released Treasury Laws Amendment Bill 2024: Climate-related financial disclosure, which is draft legislation confirming mandatory reporting of climate-related financial disclosure requirements.

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Australia: ASIC Extends Transitional Relief For Foreign Financial Service Providers

By: Rebecca Mangos and Lisa Lautier

The Australian Investments and Securities Commission (ASIC) announced that it has further extended relief for foreign financial services providers (FFSPs) from the requirement to hold an Australian financial services licence (AFSL) when providing financial services to Australian wholesale clients.

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Europe: UK’s FCA Challenges Firms to Improve Sanction Screening Processes

By: Joseph Skilton, Michael Ruck, Rosie Naylor

The FCA has assessed and reported on the sanctions controls of over 90 financial service firms from a range of sectors including wealth management.

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Europe: At Last, the UK and EU are Due to Begin Active Post-Brexit Cooperation on Financial Services Matters

By Robert Lloyd and Philip Morgan

On 27 June 2023, the UK and the EU Commission entered into a memorandum of understanding (MoU) on regulatory cooperation in financial services triggered, it seems, by the agreement of revised arrangements on Northern Ireland.  You could be forgiven for thinking that the MoU was agreed a long time ago – accordingly to a nonbinding joint declaration between the EU and the UK, the targeted date was 31 March 2021.  At the end of the Brexit transition period on 31 December 2020 few people would have expected that it would take the best part of two and a half years to reach this modest objective. 

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