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KEY TAKEAWAYS: We now provide Economic Substance Notification (ESN) and Economic Substance Report (ES Report) filing services for ADGM and DIFC entities ADGM and DIFC entities must submit ES Notifications [...]

Few areas of finance are developing faster than crypto-assets, a category that includes cryptocurrencies, securities tokens and utility tokens, whose common feature is use of distributed ledger technology (DLT). Today [...]

The Cayman Islands Government has introduced a bespoke legislative regime to attract cryptoasset and other fintech businesses to its shores, writes Ian Mason. The Cayman Islands has long been a [...]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its Consultation Paper (CP19/4: Optimising the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) and Feedback to DP16/4 - Overall Responsibility and the Legal Function) [...]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has a very broad range of regulatory responsibilities. It regulates around 58,000 firms ranging from small high street insurance brokers to the largest banks and [...]

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its near-final rules and guidance on the Senior Managers & Certification Regime (SMCR). The SMCR will replace the current Approved Persons Regime on [...]

On 22 September 2009, the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) brought its five year investigation into bid-rigging in the construction industry to a conclusion, imposing fines of £129.5 million on [...]

On 8 July 2009, HM Treasury's White Paper entitled 'Reforming financial markets' (the 'White Paper') was published. It is the long-awaited formal response from the Government to Lord Turner's Review [...]

A new British drug, lamotrigine, is being used in the treatment of children with epilepsy. About 100,000 children in the United Kingdom suffer from epilepsy. In severe cases the child can live in a twilight state, profoundly handicapped. Existing treatments do not work in about 1/3 of cases. Some children treated with lamotrigine have improved dramatically. Tests carried out at a special school for epileptic children have found about half the children show considerable improvement when treated with lamotrigine.