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FCA CP22/20: Raising the bar to build trust A briefing providing an overview of the FCA's proposals in CP22/20 on sustainability disclosure requirements and investment labels and discussing some of the issues arising from the proposals As envisaged in the Government’s roadmap to greening... Data Privacy Newsletter - Issue 20 In this issue: Regulator guidance, DPDI Reform, EU-US and UK-US transfers, ICO call for views on PETs, views from Australia, Data Protection and Privacy at Slaughter and May. The past few months have been turbulent ones with political and economic... Leaps of faith: searching for accountability in a trustless environment In this article we look at two cases heard in 2022: Tulip Trading Ltd (TTL) v. Bitcoin Association for BSV and others; and D’Aloia v. (1) Persons Unknown (2) Binance Holdings Limited and others,  and consider what they can tell us about the... The Legal 500: Blockchain Country Comparative Guide 2022 - UK chapter The Blockchain Country Comparative Guide aims to provide an overview of the law and practice of blockchain law across a variety of jurisdictions. This chapter relates to UK law.   Blockchain Market Overview Please provide a high-level overview... Disclosure of climate-related information by listed companies - FCA proposals The FCA has proposed changes to the Listing Rules that would require listed companies to disclose more information about how climate change is likely to impact their business. This briefing explains the proposals and looks at what companies will need to... The failing firm defence during COVID-19 and the tension with the CMA's approach to potential competition in dynamic markets This briefing covers how the CMA is likely to apply the failing firm defence during COVID-19 and how its evidentiary approach compares with dynamic counterfactuals. On 17 April 2020 the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) provisionally cleared the... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter European Commission consults on commitments offered by Broadcom concerning TV set-top box and modem chipset markets On 27 April 2020 the European Commission invited interested parties to comment on the commitments offered by Broadcom addressing the... The increasing demands of a social licence to operate In this article the increasing demands of the social licence to operate, and the importance of culture and purpose to a company's reputation are explored in the light of shifting expectations of society following the COVID-19 outbreak.  In the... Renewables - Corporate PPAs Do corporate PPAs offer an alternative for financing large-scale renewable power projects in the UK? In addition to power purchase agreements (PPAs) offered by utilities, there is an increasing appetite amongst companies to procure renewable power in... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - May 2020 Developments covered in this month’s edition include: COVID-19 - ECB supports macro-prudential policy measures implemented by euro area authorities Single Supervisory Mechanism - ECB adopts amending Regulation on reporting of...