Europe: Finance and Banking

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

The National Audit Office have on 25 March 2025 published their insights into the lessons learned on private investment in infrastructure. This covers both economic and social infrastructure and makes for interesting reading with the noises that PFI (possibly badged under another name) may be making a comeback.

With the first generation of the UKs operational PFI/PPP projects expiring, and hundreds more set to follow suit over the next few years, vital lessons are being learned on best practice...

This paper seeks to identify, as a matter of contingency planning, legal issues which might arise for asset managers as a result of a contraction or restructuring of the eurozone.

"Enterprise" looks at two new schemes set to provide a welcome boost to the angel investment market.

Each year, UK private equity firms supply billions of pounds of venture capital to form, develop and reshape ambitious UK companies with high growth prospects.

On 15 April 2025, the Financial Services and Pensions Ombudsman (Amendment) Act 2025 ("2025 Act") was signed into law by the President

The year 2024 was a positive time for Polish consumers engaged in legal battles against banks over Swiss franc (CHF) denominated mortgages.

Obligations immédiates : depuis le 17 janvier 2025, les établissements bancaires et d'assurance doivent déclarer leurs incidents majeurs liés aux technologies de l'information et de la communication (TIC) aux autorités compétentes ; et transmettre à l'ACPR, avant le 15 avril 2025, leur registre d'informations sur les prestataires TIC

In the context of secured financings, lending banks often require a pledgor to issue a sale power of attorney for the asset pledged (ie, shares, real property or other assets).

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.