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The proposed Financial Services Act will introduce new regulatory conduct rules and a new regime for the offering of securities

The Irish Central Bank (CBI), in common with other EU regulators, will be focused in 2018 on intensified supervision of anti-money laundering/counter-terrorist finance compliance, data protection, and ensuring banks and other regulated institutions have robust cyber security systems. However, in Ireland another area is emerging. This is the question of individual responsibility for increased regulatory scrutiny by directors and senior managers for regulatory breaches by their institution.

Like other European countries, Spain has not fully developed the regulation to implement the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid) by January 3 2018.

Argentina’s sovereign bond restructuring in 2005 reopened the debate surrounding interpretations of the boilerplate clause

The entry into force of the EU’s Benchmarks Regulation on January 1 will have a major impact on markets, asset classes and transactions

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) regulates the banking and finance industries in Ireland. It has a broad range of investigative powers to allow it to perform its supervisory and regulatory functions. These include the power to enter into and search premises, take copies of documents and obtain information in other ways. The legislation protects the right to legal professional privilege (LPP) enjoyed by a person who is the subject of the exercise of those powers. However, the legislation is otherwise generally silent on issues such as the right to privacy of personal information. The interaction of regulatory powers with the right to privacy in our digital age has been the subject of much discussion recently in Ireland.

Buyers and sellers must consider several points when negotiating antitrust provisions in strategic transaction agreements

Pre-approved foreign institutional investors can access China’s financial market in a controlled manner, in compliance with securities regulatory and foreign exchange control requirements

The scope of interpretation of several provisions of Switzerland’s cartel law has evolved following a recent Federal Supreme Court decision