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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
Cybersecurity: Overview of United States Guidelines
As the number of high profile data security breach headlines continue to mount around the world, so do the concerns for in-house counsel of how to prevent your company from...Read more
Rachel Stern
Senior Vice President, Strategic Resources, General Counsel , FactSet Research Systems Inc., USA
Dolores Longo
Corporate Attorney and Senior Business Analyst, FactSet Research Systems Inc., USA
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
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
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