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This week at the UK regulators is a weekly alerter providing views on the publications issued by the Financial Conduct Authority and the Prudential Regulation Authority during the last week. It provides a quick way to keep up to speed with what is going on in...

I am delighted to present our first Global Insurance Review. This edition focuses on Insurance news over the last few months. Future reviews will be issued on a bi-monthly basis and will highlight key market and regulatory developments across the global insurance...

2013 marked the culmination of the FSA's Retail Distribution Review ("RDR") in the UK with new rules significantly changing the way retail investment products are marketed and sold.  The key points are: New RDR rules in force ban payments...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision is proposing to significantly alter the Basel securitisation framework. This briefing provides an overview of the most significant proposals to make you aware of the proposals and help you begin the process of formulating...

Die Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht (BaFin) hat am 3. Dezember 2012 eine neue Fassung des Merkblatts zur Kontrolle von Mitgliedern von Verwaltungs- und Aufsichtsorganen gemäß KWG und VAG veröffentlicht. In dieser Fassung hat...

The Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a suite of documents on 18 November 2012 relating to its ongoing consultation on shadow banking.  The documents outline the current status of the consultation and, for the first time, set out clear policy recommendations...

Earlier this year the German Federal Court found that recognition of the Scheme of Arrangement related to insurance matters would be contrary to European legislation on the recognition and enforcement of judgments. As this judgment is limited to insurance matters,...

Bis zum Inkrafttreten des Lissabon-Vertrags am 1. Dezember 2009 vollzog sich die EU-Gesetzgebung für den Finanzsektor im sog. Lamfalussy-Verfahren, bei dem es sich um eine besondere Ausprägung des Komitologieverfahrens handelte. Seit dem Inkrafttreten...

Seit dem Jahr 2007 beschäftigt die EU-Kommission sich auf Aufforderung des Rates mit Anlageprodukten für Kleinanleger (Packaged Retail Investment Pro-ducts, "PRIPs"). Dazu zählen außer Investmentfonds und strukturierten Wertpapieren...

For a long time, China has closely monitored its insurance capital by restricting entities that were allowed to manage it and the eligible asset classes in which it could be invested.  Now, eager to liberalise the deployment of insurance capital, the China...