In October 2004 the Court of Session issued a decision in the case of Melville Dundas Ltd v George Wimpey UK Ltd which appeared to take a significantly different approach to that taken in England, to the interpretation of the payment provisions of the Housing Grants Act

Crowdfunding platforms will be able to provide their services across the whole of the EU via a system of regulatory 'passporting' under new laws proposed by the European Commission.

Legislation has still to be adopted in Spain to implement the EU's second Payment Services Directive (PSD2).

The UAE has introduced new regulations for the commercial and recreational use of drones, state news agency WAM has reported.

Consumer complaints about self-invested and small self-administered pension products increased by a third last year, in the aftermath of more flexibility around pension savings, according to the FOS.

Financial firms could be made subject to a new duty of care, requiring them to exercise "reasonable skill and care" when providing services to consumers, the financial regulator has indicated.

The use of the nerve agent Novichok in a recent attack against Sergei and Yulia Skripal in Salisbury has exposed a gap in coverage in most business interruption (BI) insurance policies ...

The European Commission (the ‘Commission’) has published the final report on its inquiry into the European energy sector. The report states that consumers and businesses are not receiving the best value from European gas and electricity markets. The Commission intends to apply the full extent of its competition enforcement powers in addressing the problems the inquiry has identified.

Alan Sheeley said that it was vital for victims to act quickly after becoming aware that a fraud had taken place.

Consumers will be urged to "make a decision" about whether to claim compensation for mis-sold payment protection insurance (PPI) as part of a two-year awareness-raising campaign.

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A new inquiry opened by a UK parliamentary committee presents an opportunity to ensure the potential benefits of cryptocurrencies are better recognised, a specialist in financial services and technology law has said.

Following a three month public consultation, the Treasury has recently made the Financial Services and Markets Act (Market Abuse) Regulations 2008 ("Regulations").

New changes to the CPR allow greater access to documents held on the court file.

Anyone who has passed through the Gulf of late will not have failed to notice the massive pace of development taking place in the region. Infrastructure projects, commercial schemes and retail developments vie for the headlines as projects become larger in scale.

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Regulators should have access to any 'keys' necessary to decrypt data that financial firms store in the cloud, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has said.

Regulatory technical standards on ‘strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication' for payment services businesses have been formally written into EU law.

The UK's financial regulators have promised a "consistent and proportionate" regulatory framework as they consult on proposals for the extension of individual accountability rules.