FSR and Corporate Crime Notes

Publication of the draft update of the AFA guidelines – New features and first impressions

Corporate Crime update - December 2019

Corporate Crime update - Autumn 2019

Herbert Smith Freehills launches updated guide to cross-border financial services investigations

Product Intervention Powers and Design and Distribution Obligations in Financial Services: A Cross-Border Perspective

Authors: Hannah Cassidy, Clive Cunningham, Natalie Curtis, Javier de Carlos, Katherine Dillon, Matthias Gippert, Leopoldo …

Herbert Smith Freehills edits and contributes chapters to Getting the Deal Through – Financial Services Litigation 2018

There has been a significant rate of global growth of litigation in the financial services sector following the 2008 global financial crisis. While the …

SFC and AMF sign MOU on mutual recognition of funds between Hong Kong and France

Last week, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) of Hong Kong announced that it had signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with the …

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New Market Abuse powers for the FCA   The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Market Abuse) Regulations 2016 On 29 June 2016, the Government …

Market abuse update - July 2016

The Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) and the Criminal Sanctions (Market Abuse) Directive came into application in Europe on 3 July 2016.  Various …

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Extra-territorial scope of MAR: impact on non-EU firms Article 2(4) of MAR applies the "prohibitions and requirements" within MAR to behaviour that …

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Suspicious transaction and order reporting Under Article 16 of MAR, market operators and investment firms operating a trading venue1, and any person …

Market abuse update - April 2016

This will be our last quarterly Market Abuse update before 3 July 2016, the date when both the new Market Abuse Regulation and the Criminal Sanctions …