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On 20 January 2007 the Transparency Directive ("TD") was implemented in the United Kingdom with effect from 20 January 2007 through the Financial Services Authority’s ("FSA") Transparency Obligations Directive (Disclosure and Transparency Rules) Instrument 2006. This note is a brief guide to the main changes resulting from the implementation of the TD in the UK.

It was revealed in early January 2007 that the Financial Services Authority is conducting a study with the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the US Securities and Exchange Commission to examine counterparty credit risk exposures to hedge funds, and collateral policies, procedures and practices.

The last ten years have seen some very high profile insolvencies in the international energy business.

Once you have reserved your property (paid your reservation fee and signed the reservation form with the developer) and instructed your solicitor (returned your completed inception form)...

Welcome to the August 2009 edition of Banking and Capital Markets Insight, which focuses on technical issues currently coming out of the banking, capital markets, securities and fund management arenas.

FSB has published an interim progress report on its efforts to reform the major interest rate benchmarks, and to develop and introduce alternative near risk-free interest rate benchmarks.

The Department of Justice and the Securities and Exchange Commission have been jointly cracking down on the use of "expert" consulting networks that they say paid company employees to provide funds with material inside information about their employers.

This article aims to provide the busy family practitioner with a fairly comprehensive guide to the what, where, when, and how of equitable accounting, specifically in the context of trusts of land, to assist you...

7 червня 2016 року Правління Національного банку України («НБУ») прийняло нову антикризо

Largely in response to the recent financial crisis, Congress has just approved the "Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act" ("Act").

Including a receivables securitisation tranche when financing (and refinancing) highly leveraged businesses that generate trade receivables has become popular for several reasons.

In January 2007, the NCC Group published the results of a study they had conducted into IT security. They had sent a gift-wrapped USB memory stick to the Finance Directors of 500 UK public companies wrapped in packaging suggesting that its contents contained an exclusive "party invitation of a lifetime". More than half of the Finance Directors plugged in the USB stick and even clicked on the "Yes I want to install some software" option.

Bonds are often used by governments to fund infrastructure projects or war spending.

Increasingly, intellectual property represents a valuable part of the assets of a borrower group and therefore a valuable asset to be used as security for loans.

The implementation of the FSA’s Individual Capital Adequacy Standards regime in the UK has far-reaching consequences for all stakeholders in the insurance industry. The Use Test in particular, which seeks to embed a firm’s capital adequacy calculations in its risk management framework, will bring prudential capital into the boardroom as a tool for shaping strategy. Deloitte’s Roger Jackson explores the benefits of the new regime and suggests that firms that get on board early will be at a distin

This article provides a detailed analysis of trends in FSA enforcement actions over that period, based on our classification of the types of underlying alleged misconduct.

Over the last two years, there has been an incessant flow of new regulatory initiatives, largely as a response to the recent global financial crisis.