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From Backstage to Lead Role: The Emergence of In-House Counsel in Executive Management
The evolution of General Counsel’s role within the corporate environment is an interesting one to observe. Traditionally, the in-house counsel was pigeonholed into a distinctly supporting role. The remit was...Read more
Morgan Deane
Chief Executive Officer & President of the Executive Board, Helvea-Baader Bank Group, Switzerland
The Role of Ethics for Central Bank Senior Management: A Comparative Analysis of Recent Developments
The proper management of ethics and conflicts of interest is important for banks and particularly essential for central banks. Much of central bank’s success hinges on their credibility in markets...Read more
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
Corporate Governance for In House Legal Counsel
In recent times, it has become commonplace for in house Counsel (“General Counsel”) to assume additional responsibilities within a Company or Group of Companies such as the Corporate Secretary and/or...Read more
Julie Thompson-James
Vice President, Senior Legal Counsel, Corporate Secretary, The Bank of Nova Scotia Jamaica Limited, Jamaica
Could Banks do More in the Fight Against Money Laundering?
The purpose of this paper is to examine if banks could do more in stopping laundered money entering into the banking system and if so, to what extent.
Even with...Read more
Viri Chauhan
Global Head of Governance, Risk and Compliance, International Compliance Training, UK
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
Negotiating Global Contracts: Balancing Legal Risk and Commerciality
Financial organisations have a far wider reach in today's business environment as the scale and scope of their customer base expands beyond local and regional borders. Accordingly in-house lawyers, as...Read more
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Assistant General Counsel, JP Morgan, UK
A Comparative Analysis of Albanian Banking Privacy Legislation
Legislation on the protection of banking information (banking secrecy) was established in Albania in early 1990. The rationale behind this legal framework was motivated by economic factors, i.e. the flow...Read more
On the Road to Recovery: Victims of the Madoff Fraud
In 2008, triggered by the financial crisis, two financial companies fell from power and grace, and were placed in liquidation under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”). The failure of...Read more
Josephine Wang
General Counsel, Securities Investor Protection Corp., USA
Expanding the Frontiers of Electronic Financial Transactions;
But Can Regulations Keep Up?
Nearly every week in the past several months, multifaceted debates over new concepts in high frequency trading (HFT) of various instruments have emerged rapidly. HFT firms are developing new technology...Read more
Chaim Levin
Chief Legal Officer, Compagnie Financiere Tradition, USA