Worldwide: Finance and Banking

It is said that diamonds are forever, but the newfound gleam of the digital token has come to truly represent eternal, revolutionary wealth for many investors, with recent commercial history...

The ASIC has cancelled the MWL Financial Services' licence for operating a 'low cost advice project' from 2021 to receive referrals from telemarketers/lead generators...

The FCA has issued a warning to consumers about fraudsters impersonating the regulator. The FCA received almost 5,000 scam reports in H1 2025; almost two-thirds of reports came...

A human tragedy that caught my eye in the press was the death of Mike Lynch last year aboard his yacht.

The EU and UK prospectus regimes govern disclosure requirements for securities offered to the public and/or admitted to trading on a regulated market.

The significance of this topic for many clients arises because the UK is home to some of the largest and most significant commodity derivative markets in the world.

On 17 June 2025, the European Commission (the "Commission") published its proposed measures to revive the securitisation framework in the European Union ("EU"), with a view to making it simpler and more fit for purpose.

On 15 July 2025, HM Treasury published its response confirming it will no longer pursue a UK green taxonomy – a classification system to define which economic activities could be considered environmentally sustainable (the "UK Green Taxonomy").

The Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR)¹ has, since becoming effective in March 2021, changed the approach to the establishment...

The Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on August 17 promulgated final rules (the "Rules") regarding an asset-backed securities ("ABS") issuer’s duty to file reports under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (the "Exchange Act").

Section 621 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (the "Dodd-Frank Act") was a reaction to securitizations structured such that the parties involved in arranging and marketing the transaction could profit from circumstances that might result in losses to the investors in the transaction.

In disputes in which a company argues that a contract cannot be relied upon against it on the basis that a decision of its organs which led to the conclusion of the contract is invalid, Article 22.2 does not apply so as to allocate "exclusive jurisdiction" to the Courts of the EU Member State in which that company has its seat.