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Registration deadline under money laundering regulations extended to 31 may 2008

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 16 2008

The Money Laundering Regulations introduced a requirement that individuals who perform trustee duties "by way of business" must register with HMRC

Corporate governance: a change in landscape on the horizon for financial institutions and listed companies

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • September 15 2009

The recommendations in the Walker Review on corporate governance in UK financial institutions aim to bring about significant cultural and organisational changes in corporate governance

Remuneration policies: the FSA's draft Code of practice

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 11 2009

On 26 February, the FSA published a Code of practice on remuneration policies in draft form, in conjunction with the government's announcement about the Asset Protection Scheme

Walker Review on corporate governance in financial institutions final recommendations

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 2 2010

In November 2009, Sir David Walker published his Final Recommendations on corporate governance in UK banks and other financial institutions (BOFIs

Effective corporate governance

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
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  • March 2 2010

The FSA published CP103 entitled "Effective corporate governance (significant influence controlled functions and the Walker review)" in January 2010

Review of 2009 and preview of 2010

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • European Union, United Kingdom
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  • January 15 2010

The transition from 2009 to 2010 sees some significant legislative chapters closing, notably the Companies Act 2006, Rome I and II, the Banking Act 2009 and the Lisbon Treaty

Acting in concert and deemed voting power: new FSA guidance

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 3 2010

On 6 April 2010, the FSA published Draft Guidance setting out its views on when persons might be "acting in concert" or hold deemed voting power for the purposes of its controller regime (the "Draft Guidance"

FSA’s corporate governance framework and intensive supervisory approach

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 14 2010

Corporate governance is currently high on the FSA's radar and it is clear that issues relating to corporate governance are a key component of the FSA's new intensive supervisory approach

SEC

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • January 21 2011

According to various Wall Street news sources the SEC is exploring the relationship between Sovereign Wealth Funds and American financial funds and in particular the SEC is wanting to know if private equity companies, banks and other financial corporates are violating bribery laws in their efforts to win contracts with government investment funds

Effective corporate governance: significant influence controlled functions and the Walker Review

  • Herbert Smith Freehills LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 4 2010

The FSA has published a consultation paper (CP103) entitled "Effective corporate governance (significant influence controlled functions and the Walker review)" which discusses the following