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Marketing of funds in the United Arab Emirates - new regulations published
The Securities & Commodities Authority of the United Arab Emirates has introduced a set of new requirements for foreign funds wishing to market their …
New US Executive Order in relation to Iran and enforcement action against two non-US banks
On 31 July 2011 Barack Obama enacted a new Executive Order 'Authorising Additional Sactions with Respect to Iran', which has immediate …
Deferred Prosecution Agreements consultation – one week to go!
On 17 May 2012 the Ministry of Justice published a consultation paper 'Consultation on a new enforcement tool to deal with economic crime committed by …
Special administration order under the Investment Bank Special Administration Regulations 2011: Worldspreads
In Re Worldspreads Limited [2012] EWHC 1263 (Ch), the High Court granted an urgent application for a special administration order under …
PRIPs: Proposed Regulation on pre-sale disclosures for Packaged Retail Investment Products – interaction with RDR and MiFID II
The European Commission has now published its final proposal for a Regulation on mandatory pre-sale disclosures for Packaged Retail Investment Products …
Strengthening the European Market Abuse regime: the European Commission's proposed "LIBOR" amendments
The European Commission has adopted amendments to the text of the proposed Market Abuse Regulation and Directive on criminal sanctions for …
Block Listing: FSA publishes procedural note and other LPDT guidance
The FSA has published its second Primary Market Bulletin. The Bulletin states that the FSA is planning to completely re-launch its technical and …
EU Court of Justice rules provision of investment management services is not VAT exempt
On 19 July 2012, the Court of Justice of the European Union ("CJEU") released its judgment in Finanzamt Frankfurt am Main V-Hochst v Deutsche Bank AG …
Journey to the FCA - FAQs
The FSA has produced some FAQs about the "Journey to the FCA". To a large extent, they point to the Approach document due to be published in the Autumn, …
Time barring PPI complaints
In its Policy Statement 10/12 on "The assessment and redress of Payment Protection Insurance complaints" published in August 2010, the FSA was quite firm …
ECJ considers scope of domestic transposition of maximum harmonisation Directive on consumer credit agreements
On 12 July 2012, the European Court of Justice (ECJ) gave judgment in Case C-602/10 SC Volksbank România SA v …
DFSA enacts new markets law 2012
The Markets Law 2012, which is administered by the Dubai Financial Services Authority ("DFSA") has been enacted and came into force on 5 July 2012. …
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