The European Commission has put forward proposals for a single European supervisory mechanism for banks.

This decree implements the Act on funding of financial supervision, which outlines how the costs of the AFM and DNB will be financed.

On Tuesday 19 March 2013 the European Council reached an agreement with the European Parliament on the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM).

The European regulation on key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) is already leading to turmoil in the markets...

In this publication, Omar Salah sets out how sukuk transactions can be structured under Dutch private law and covers the Islamic and Dutch legal issues involved.

De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek has advised AkzoNobel on reaching an agreement to sell its 75.81 percent shareholding in ICI Pakistan Limited to the Yunus Brothers Group for €124.4 million (subject to a net debt and interest adjustment).

On 19 April 2012 a bill amending the Acts to prevent money laundering and financing of terrorism was submitted to the Second Chamber of parliament.

ING Bank has reached a USD 619 million settlement with the US Treasury Department to avoid potential prosecution for allegedly facilitating billions of dollars' worth of payments to Cuban and Iranian customers.

A recent Supreme Court ruling has put a practical end to the effectiveness of clauses in contracts prohibiting assignment or pledge of receivables.

The International Comparative Legal Guide (ICLG) to Corporate Recovery & Insolvency 2017 provides a practical cross-border insight into corporate recovery and insolvency work...

There have been significant recent European developments regarding the Solvency II Directive

Bommel van der Bend and Kirstin Nijburg have contributed the Netherlands chapter to Global Arbitration Review’s Construction Arbitration know-how.

On 1 January 2016, the Rotterdam District Court started a pilot project allowing cases involving maritime and transport law and international sale of goods to be conducted in English.

The Dutch Supreme Court recently issued an important ruling on the commencement of the limitation period for compensation claims.

Daan Beenders and Wouter Hofstee describe the relevance of procedural law for strategic considerations in international litigation.

In his view, the bill lacks an analysis of why it is not always possible to bring about a collective settlement in mass damages suits.

Agreements are increasingly entered into via websites or by exchange of e-mails.

A growing cybercrime economy has led DNB to choose cybercrime as one of its supervisory themes for 2012.

In Thomson Reuters' article, senior associate Wanne Pemmelaar discusses the new cyber security and data breach notification rules that apply in the Netherlands as of 1 January 2016.

The Dutch Council of State is in the process of requesting a preliminary ruling by the Court of Justice on whether the Nitrogen Approach Programme is compatible with EU law...