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Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive: ESMA publishes Level 2 advice

Matheson
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European Union, Ireland
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November 23 2011

On 16 November 2011, the European Securities and Markets Authority issued its final technical advice on the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive implementing measures

Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Bill, 2009

A&L Goodbody
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Ireland
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August 5 2009

The long-awaited Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Bill, 2009 which will give effect to the Third Money Laundering Directive 200560EC ("the 3 MLD") was finally published on Tuesday 28 July

Revised Consumer Protection Code and related guidance takes effect

Matheson
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Ireland
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March 6 2012

On 19 October 2011, the Central Bank published the revised Consumer Protection Code (the “CPC”) which came into effect from 1 January 2012 for regulated entities including banks, insurance and investment companies and intermediaries

New Financial Services Ombudsman appointed

A&L Goodbody
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Ireland
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February 16 2010

Bill Prasifka, who is the current Chairman of the Competition Authority, has been appointed as the new Financial Services Ombudsman

The right man for the job?

LK Shields
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Ireland
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April 12 2012

We all want the men and women running the financial services sector to be people of unimpeachable integrity, but the Central Bank has gone further and introduced a set of ‘fitness and probity standards’ for those in senior positions

New naming powers proposed for the Financial Services Ombudsman

Matheson
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Ireland
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September 12 2012

The Minister for Finance has expressed his backing for proposals to grant new powers to the Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) to “name and shame” financial service providers against which complaints have been upheld

Central Bank of Ireland publishes Issue 3 of the Intermediary Times

Matheson
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Ireland
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September 20 2012

The Central Bank has recently published its third issue of the Intermediary Times, a newsletter for brokers and retail intermediaries

Landmark court decisions regarding the Financial Services Ombudsman

Matheson
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Ireland
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April 23 2012

With the Financial Services Ombudsman (FSO) reporting a high level of complaints to his office in 2011, he has also been active in the courts, with a number of recent landmark rulings taking place