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Wed 20 March 2024
9.00am - 10.00am

Virtual seminar - Greenwashing Update 2024

With the FCA’s new anti-greenwashing rule to soon come into effect (alongside new UK regulatory guidance that, in some respects, has proven controversial), it is a good time to take stock of the regulatory requirements around greenwashing.  In this seminar, we will look at regulatory initiatives in the UK and elsewhere, and how regulators and firms are viewing greenwashing risks and issues.
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Thu 21 March 2024
9.00am - 10.00am

Virtual seminar - UK individual accountability in financial services: Themes, trends and challenges

Individual accountability issues remain a top priority for the UK financial services regulators. Although the Edinburgh Reforms cast some short-lived doubt over the future of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR), the last 12 months have provided no shortage of developments – ranging from the first two enforcement cases to tackle the issue of “reasonable steps” for Senior Managers, to proposed new rules and guidance about DE&I and assessing the regulatory consequences of non-financial misconduct. In our annual webinar on UK individual accountability themes and trends, Sarah Hitchins, Robbie Sinclair, Marc Teasdale and Olivia Kendall-Martin will share their insights into: • the latest trends in the regulators’ approach to assessing applications for Senior Manager approvals, including approaches to authorisations interviews; • key governance trends impacting firms’ approaches to their SMCR arrangements, including the appointment of Senior Managers located overseas; • insights into the regulators’ enforcement appetite and approach to investigations involving individuals subject to the SMCR; • key practical lessons learned from recent enforcement cases focusing on Senior Managers and their “reasonable steps”; • handling employee misconduct, including through individual accountability reviews; • the regulators’ DE&I proposals, with a particular focus on their proposals in relation to the regulatory consequences of non-financial misconduct; and • employment litigation risks, including examples of the types of actions employees have issued, or threatened to issue, over the last 12 months in the High Court and Employment Tribunal. Whether you work in Compliance, Employment, ER, HR, Investigations, Legal, Risk or dedicated individual accountability teams, there will be takeaways from this session to assist with the day-to-day operation and management of the SMCR.
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Fri 22 March 2024
12.30pm - 1.30pm

Virtual seminar - Recent developments in banking and finance law

A review of developments in banking and finance law that have taken place in the last six months.
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Wed 27 March 2024
2.00pm - 3.00pm

Virtual seminar - One year on from the bank failures of 2023: policy impacts

The collapse of Silicon Valley Bank, Credit Suisse and Signature Bank in March 2023 sent shockwaves across the world. Our teams in the US, UK and Europe will reflect on how the lessons learned are shaping policy and market developments one year on. In particular, we will consider developments relating to capital and liquidity requirements, recovery and resolution frameworks, depositor protection policies, insolvency priorities, discount windows and collateral.
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Tue 16 April 2024
3.00pm - 4.00pm

Virtual seminar - ATAD 2 in practice: how are funds being impacted?

When the EU’s anti-hybrid rules were introduced back in 2017, there were concerns about how this would impact fund structures. Our team will consider how the rules and their interpretation have evolved in ways that might not have been expected when they were first adopted. We will share experiences of dealing with the rules in practice and look at what practical consequences the rules are having for funds and corresponding holding structures today. We consider differences in approach between jurisdictions and points to look out for when dealing with the interaction with US tax rules.
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