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Tax

Osborne Clarke responds to call for input on UK funds regime review

Reform of the UK funds regime is welcome but should focus on improvements to existing UK fund vehicles alongside any

Brexit

Brexit: The first 100 days

A truism: Brexit is a process, not an event. So, 100 days after the UK left the Single Market and

Woolard Review

What role does the Woolard Review set out for regulation in the unsecured credit market?

The UK regulator's report proposes changes across the market and, in the penultimate article in our series on its recommendations

Woolard Review

Improve access to debt advice and create a fair debt-solutions market, says Woolard Review

Consumers are struggling with excess debt and financial pressures brought on by the Covid-19 pandemic

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