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  • FSB report sets out framework to monitor crypto-asset markets Accès restreint

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    Envoyé: 20 July 2018

    On 16 July 2018, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a report to the G20 on work by the FSB and other standard-setting bodies on crypto-assets.

  • Hedge Fund Vista webinar - 11 July 2018

    Webinaire

    Envoyé: 11 July 2018

    In this session we discuss SMCR - what hedge fund managers need to know, ESG funds and ERISA constraints, Cayman Islands AML Update - checklist for 30 September deadline.

  • US Court overturns Department of Labor Fiduciary Advice Rule

    Article

    Envoyé: 29 June 2018

    The ERISA advice fiduciary rules that were the subject of our Q&A in April 2017 have been overturned by a US Court. The effect of this is that funds can once again accept subscriptions from certain affected ERISA and benefit plan investors without requiring such investors to be “professionally advised”. Investment managers can therefore remove certain representations and restrictions from their funds’ documents.

  • EU blocking statute on Iran-related nuclear sanctions released

    Article

    Envoyé: 14 June 2018

    The EU Commission has now "adopted" the much awaited EU blocking statute. What does it do? In short it seeks to provide protection to EU-based companies from engaging in sanctions-compliant business with Iran. It is in effect the EU trying to keep the Iran nuclear deal alive despite the withdrawal by the US. This article highlights the key features of the recent action.

  • Remote control: Public registers of beneficial ownership for offshore companies

    Article

    Envoyé: 13 June 2018

    The UK has passed a new law designed to require many companies in its overseas territories, such as the Cayman Islands, to make their beneficial ownership registers publicly available. The law will be fiercely resisted by the overseas territories.

  • IndInfravit privately goes public in India

    Article

    Envoyé: 23 May 2018

    In early May 2018, IndInfravit Trust, an Indian infrastructure investment trust, or InvIT, completed its initial global offering of 314,500,000 trust units, raising gross proceeds of Rs. 31.45bn (approximately US$485m). The offering was only the third by an InvIT under the Securities and Exchange Board of India (Infrastructure Investment Trusts) Regulations, 2014, and was the first to be done on a private placement basis, though the units were listed for trading on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange.

  • The fight against financial crime: sanctions

    Article

    Envoyé: 23 May 2018

    In this series of articles, we focus on different areas of financial crime, taking an incisive look at current regulation and what we can expect over the course of 2018. In this fifth edition we take a look at sanctions, including the UK's approach to sanctions post-Brexit and the growing divide between US and EU foreign policy.

  • U.S. Iran-related Nuclear Sanctions to be Reimposed

    Article

    Envoyé: 13 May 2018

    On 08 May 2018, U.S. President Donald Trump announced that “the United States will withdraw from the Iran nuclear deal”, known formally as the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (the JCPOA), and that the “highest level of economic sanctions” will be imposed by the United States on Iran.

  • Emirates Law Business and Practice - Cryptocurrencies: A UAE perspective

    Article

    Envoyé: 09 May 2018

    As the use and numbers of crypto-currencies such as Bitcoin increase Muneer Khan and Samir Safar-Aly of Simmons & Simmons look at the approach the UAE financial services regulators are taking.

  • Hedge Fund Vista webinar - 02 May 2018

    Webinaire

    Envoyé: 02 May 2018

    In this session we discuss Brexit planning for hedge fund managers, GDPR - the final pieces, and Fund fees and terms: trends in new launches in the US and UK.

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