New rules will bringer tougher conduct, corporate governance and fitness and probity obligations.

Non-traditional players continue to have high levels of interest in the Asian insurance industry, with its attractive growth prospects. However, market entry is hindered by a number of factors.

It is not uncommon we see small to medium size cargo claims coming before the Hong Kong High Court, notwithstanding our District Court seizes jurisdiction on claims up to HKD1 million.

To celebrate the countdown to Christmas, the Corporate Insurance team will be publishing a prediction for 2015 each day.

A new Insurance Bill was tabled in Parliament on Friday the 29th of January 2016.

On 23 March 2018, National Treasury of South Africa published draft amendments to the Regulations promulgated under the Long-term Insurance Act, 52 of 1998 ...

The rapid pace in which changes are being implemented in response to the Covid-19 outbreak in the GCC and the different requirements per jurisdiction are becoming challenging for companies to keep up.

As widely reported, the UAE government announced on 1 April 2015 that the new UAE Commercial Companies Law (Federal Law No. 2 of 2015) had been passed into law.

The CCL has introduced a raft of changes to facilitate capital markets transactions. Further SCA regulation will flesh out the detail of the CCL provisions.

The DIFC Authority has recently announced the release of the new DIFC Employment Law, which has come into force on 28 August 2019.

Industry will be fundamentally altered as a result of new regulations In the coming year the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Insurance Authority will issue new rules. Restrictions on indemnity commission ...

The DIFC Authority has recently announced the release of the new DIFC Data Protection Law, which will come into force on 1 July 2020.

Amended guidance has now been issued for schools, head teachers and school staff providing advice on health and safety.

The Bribery Act is full steam ahead to come into force in April 2011. Despite this, it was reported in the Evening Standard on 13 January 2011 that Downing Street had ordered a review of Bribery Act and the Guidance.

You will recall that in our Autumn Bulletin we wrote about squatting becoming a criminal offence.

Criminal investigations and prosecutions of both entities and their directors are on the increase across Europe and elsewhere.

Race discrimination legislation in employment began its journey in Britain over 50 years ago, in 1968.

The Fee For Intervention Scheme (FFI) by which the Health and Safety Executive (HSE) recovers fees from businesses they deem to be in "material breach" of health and safety legislation...

The UK Treasury has issued the long awaited Code of Conduct for Operational PFI/PPP contracts.

The Court of Appeal has found that the FCA breached section 393 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 ("FSMA")...