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The Role of Legal Regulation in Banking Supervision.
What system works best in a post financial crisis setting?
The issues of regulation of banking supervision are usually the same in many financial systems. In most cases we have similar authorities and matching regulations to ensure that financial institutions...Read more
Airborne Effrontery: Dealing with an unwanted drone over-flight under Australian law
This paper surveys the existing laws in Australia which impact on the use of unmanned aerial vehicles (commonly called UAVs or ‘drones’). It considers the regulatory controls on the users...Read more
Peter Quinlivian
Senior Legal Counsel, Bae Systems Australia Defence Pty, Australia
Digital Currency - may be a 'bit player' now, but in the longer term a 'game changer' for tax
The Prime Minister of Australia, the Hon Malcolm Turnbull MP, has announced that the tax system is one of the key levers the government has to promote economic activity and...Read more
Dr Steven Stern
Adjunct Professor, College of Law & Justice, Victoria University, Australia
Understanding the Prohibition of Circumvention Under the EU Regulation on Interchange Fees for Credit and Debit Card Payment Transactions
1. The European Regulation on interchange fees’ cap to card based transactions, and its entry into force on 9 December 2015
2. Understanding the prohibition of circumventing the interchange fees’ cap
3. The Durbin...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
PRIIPs Regulation and its Implementation: Consequences and Challenges
From 31 December 2016, manufacturers and distributors of packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs) will have to comply with the Regulation on Key Information Documents for Packaged Retail and...Read more
Emilia Petrocelli
Senior Compliance Officer, Mediobanca SpA, Italy
Solvency II - Benefits of Strategic Implementation
Asset management is the professional management and trading of securities and other types of assets to achieve a specific investment goal. Asset managers specialise in managing discretionary mandates and investment...Read more
Maeve Verdon
Associate General Counsel, AIG Asset Management (Europe) Limited, Ireland
The European Economic Interest Grouping (EEIG)
A Portuguese Experience
Presently, Portugal is one of the countries where several multinational companies have decided to base their pooled, back-office or shared services. Natural, cultural and economic reasons are behind such decisions,...Read more
João Espanha
Partner, Espanha & Associados, Portugal
Carlos Fernandes
Head Legal Department, Cardif (BNPParibas insurance company), Portugal
PSD II: Modernizing the EU Payment Services Landscape Through Effective Competition and Consumer Protection
On July 24, 2013, the European Commission (“the Commission”) issued a legislative proposal to update the existing Payments Services Directive (“PSD I”), which has been in force since 2007. The...Read more
Orestis Omran
Counsel, Dentons, Belgium
Emmanouela Nikolakopoulou
Associate Legal Counsel, Swift, Belgium
The Modernisation of Insurance Law in the United Kingdom
Insurance law in the UK has been modernised by the recent consumer and commercial insurance law reforms set out in the Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Act 2012 (“CIDRA”) and...Read more
Ben Foat
Group General Counsel, Post Office, UK
Bringing Fairness to FCPA Settlements: Protecting the Corporate Form through Respondeat Inferior Subsidiary Liability
The 2012 United States Department of Justice (DOJ) and Securities Exchange Commission (SEC) resource guide to the FCPA (Guide) suggests two theories for imposing liability on an issuer for...Read more
Peter Manda
Attorney, Peter Manda, Esq., USA