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Corporate Update Bulletin - 8 August 2024 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates.
New public offers and admissions to trading regime: FCA publishes further details - Highlights for Debt Capital Markets The FCA has published further details of the public offers and admissions to trading regime that will come into force next year. In this briefing, we set out the key highlights for the debt capital markets. A separate briefing covers highlights for the...
Hong Kong Introduces Regulatory Regime for Stablecoin Issuers The Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) and the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) issued a consultation paper in December 2023 on a proposal to regulate fiat-referenced stablecoin (FRS) issuers in light of the potential monetary and...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 1 August 2024
New public offers and admissions to trading regime: FCA publishes further details - Highlights for Equity Capital Markets The FCA has published the final version of the new UK Listing Rules (UKLR), which will come into force on 29 July 2024. Designed to help improve the appeal of the UK’s equity capital markets, the new rules represent the most far-reaching reforms of the...
Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: EU, UK and US competition authorities publish shared principles for competition in AI On 23 July 2024, the European Commission, the UK Competition and Markets Authority, the US Department of Justice and the US Federal Trade Commission published a joint statement on competition in generative AI foundation models and AI products. The...
Funded Reinsurance - PRA Final Policy On 26 July the PRA published PS13/24, setting out feedback to CP24/23 - Funded reinsurance, together with a final supervisory statement (SS5/24) and accompanying Dear CEO letter. The new policy expectations set out in SS5/24 came into effect immediately....
Pensions Essentials - July 2024
The IP Brief - July 2024 Welcome to The IP Brief – a quarterly update of key IP cases and news, with a primarily UK and EU focus.
Employment Bulletin - July 2024 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment Rights Bill; Meaningful consultation required before deciding on redundancy pool; Guidance on new duty to prevent sexual harassment in the workplace; Renewal of fixed-term contract beyond four years was...
The Shareholder Rights and Activism Review - 9th edition - United Kingdom chapter This law review chapter considers the legal and regulatory framework in UK shareholder activism, key trends over the past two years, and an analysis of recent activism campaigns. Furthermore, the chapter offers a summary of recent regulatory developments,...
Court of Appeal decision in Virgin Media on need for actuarial confirmation when amending reference scheme test benefits The Court of Appeal has decided in Virgin Media Limited v NTL Pensions Trustees II Limited that where amendments were made to contracted-out DB rights between 6 April 1997 and 6 April 2013 rights and did not comply with the requirement to obtain...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 25 July 2024
Corporate Update Bulletin - 25 July 2024 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates.
The Lens Newsletter - July 2024 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May.