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Client assets: enhancement or a missed opportunity?

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • May 28 2010

The UK's Financial Services Authority has published a consultation paper on proposed changes to its client asset rules

Combined Code review and revised ABI executive remuneration guidelines

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • April 28 2010

The issue of how the pay recommendations for the financial sector (as set out in the final recommendations of the Walker review published in November 2009) should influence the wider listed company sector has been addressed by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in the publication, in December 2009, of the FRC's final report on its 2009 review of the Combined Code

Effective corporate governance?

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 23 2010

The Financial Services Authority (FSA) published a consultation paper on effective corporate governance earlier this year

The FSA confirms its new financial penalties regime

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 15 2010

This briefing provides commentary on the Enforcement Financial Penalties Policy Statement (104), and outlines the key amendments to the Decision Procedure and Penalties Manual (DEPP) and the Enforcement Guide (EG) that were published by the Financial Services Authority (FSA) on 1 March 2010

Remuneration within listed companies a new year review

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 17 2010

The issue of how the pay recommendations for the financial sector (as set out in the final recommendations of the Walker Review published in November 2009) should influence the wider listed company sector has been addressed by the Financial Reporting Council (FRC) and the Association of British Insurers (ABI) in the publication, in December 2009, of:the FRC's Final Report on its 2009 Review of the Combined Code; and revised ABI Guidelines on Executive Remuneration together with a Position Paper to supplement the guidelines and provide some practical guidance to remuneration committees

FSA enforcement in 2010

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 11 2010

In this briefing we consider, in light of the Financial Services Authority's enforcement activity in 2009, what the main themes are likely to be for regulatory enforcement in the coming year

Financial Services Bill: an update on collective redress and regulator-led redress

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • February 3 2010

This is an update to our briefing of December 2009, which considered the provisions in the Financial Services Bill relating to collective redress and regulator-led redress

Financial Services Bill: collective redress and regulator-led redress

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • December 15 2009

The Financial Services Bill, now being debated in Parliament, contains important provisions relating to consumer redress which, if enacted, would have far-reaching implications for the financial services industry

Corporate governance - forthcoming final recommendations

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • November 20 2009

Sir David Walker's final recommendations on corporate governance are due to be published on 26 November 2009

Remuneration and corporate governance in financial institutions

  • Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer LLP
  • -
  • France, Germany, Global, Netherlands, United Kingdom
  • -
  • October 2 2009

There is a pressing need for remuneration and governance principles in financial institutions to be based on a globally consistent framework, rather than national initiatives