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Competition, antitrust and trade

CMA's FinTech focus continues

Crowdfunding platforms merger is abandoned following the Competition and Markets Authority's (CMA) adverse provisional findings.

Blockchain

UKJT consults on new Digital Dispute Resolution Rules for FinTechs

The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) has proposed a new, faster and more flexible approach to dispute resolution tailored for disputes

Banking and finance

Legislators adopt reforms of Belgian insolvency law

Streamlined bankruptcy rules are due to come into force in June to shield healthy businesses hit by the pandemic

Banking and finance

How will new EU and UK rules foreign investment rules affect tech deals?

Governments are increasingly looking to scrutinise and intervene in M&A and investment into high priority areas, which include a number

Financial Services

Funds Legal Update | March 2021

As a sign of the times, the key regulatory updates over the course of the last couple of weeks are

Decarbonisation

Singapore's green and sustainable finance markets expected to blossom in 2021 with help from MAS grant schemes

The Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) has launched the world's first grant scheme to support green and sustainability-linked loans, which

Commercial

Cryptoassets case law homes in on location, location, location!

Slowly but surely the English courts are defining the legal status of cryptocurrencies by confirming the rights that go with

Decarbonisation

Funding the transition to a low carbon future: beyond the regulations

As the green and sustainability-linked finance markets grow, greater attention is being given to reporting and monitoring meaningful metrics

Woolard Review

Woolard Review looks at the alternatives to high-cost credit

UK regulator's report proposes changes across the market and, in the third in our series on its recommendations, we look

Financial Services

Financial regulator announces new major shareholdings notification portal

Investors should get up to date with registration process as changes loom in March

Woolard Review

Deficiencies in credit information identified by Woolard Review of unsecured credit market

UK regulator's report proposes changes across the market and, in the second in our series on its recommendations, we look