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Navigating the regulatory landscape of Fintech business
Philip Heilbrunn, Mattias Dacker, Jessica Khoo (Eversheds Sutherland)
4 pages

This briefing provides an overview of the state of affairs of Fintech regulation in Sweden.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Technology, Privacy, and eCommerce
Region: Sweden
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The New Swedish Foreign Direct Investment Screening Mechanism – Legal Guide
Johan Kennemyr, Sara Malmgren, Richard Jacobsson, Mathilda Andersson, Sina Amini, Matilda Frykman Krans (Eversheds Sutherland)
6 pages

This article covers the Swedish Parliament's adoption of a legislative act allowing for the screening of foreign direct investments (“the FDI Act”) which will make certain investments subject to mandatory notification and suspension. The FDI Act will have a significant effect on investments and M&A transactions closing on or after 1 December 2023.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: Sweden
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The Financial Conduct Authority’s Restricted Mass Market Investments customer journey review
Eversheds Sutherland
5 pages

This article discusses the Financial Conduct Authority's Restricted Mass Market Investments customer journey review. The review sets out findings on firms’ compliance with new rules for promotion of high risk investments to retail clients and provides examples of good and poor practice for firms to consider.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: United Kingdom
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Latham & Watkins US IPO Guide 2023 Edition
Latham & Watkins LLP
77 pages

This initial public offering guide will help you decide whether an IPO is the right move for your company and, if so, help you make sure your IPO goes off as quickly and as smoothly as possible, without any unpleasant surprises.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: United States
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Latham & Watkins Global IPO Guide 2023 Edition
Latham & Watkins LLP
41 pages

This global initial public offering guide will help you navigate the US portion of a global IPO – in other words, an IPO in which you sell locally listed ordinary shares to investors outside the United States.

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Interest Area: Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: Global, United States
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ACC Ontario x Blakes National Regulatory Insights

With constantly evolving regulations over the past year, doing business in the financial services industry has become increasingly tricky to navigate. Join us for the need-to-know highlights and get your questions answered by our Blakes team and in-house counsel, Sandy Stephens, VP & Chief Compliance Officer at Alterna Bank. 

These sessions will be short, lunch time discussions of the latest regulatory updates, with short question and answer periods. Please feel free to register for any or all that would be relevant to you. 

 

Regulatory round up, Part 2: 

  • OSFI’s updated B-10 guideline, including the broadened scope and OSFI’s expectations in terms of implementation; and 
  • The financial consumer protection framework and challenges we’ve seen with interpretation/implementation since it came into force in 2022 

 

Next in the series: 
November 14, 2023: Privacy and Quebec, Part 3  

ACC Ontario x Blakes National Regulatory Insights

With constantly evolving regulations over the past year, doing business in the financial services industry has become increasingly tricky to navigate. Join us for the need-to-know highlights and get your questions answered by our Blakes team and in-house counsel, Sandy Stephens, VP & Chief Compliance Officer at Alterna Bank. 

These sessions will be short, lunch time discussions of the latest regulatory updates, with short question and answer periods. Please feel free to register for any or all that would be relevant to you. 

Regulatory round up, Part 1: 

Retail Payments Activity Act (RPAA) 

  • Overview of requirements / impact of changes  
  • Update on status and next steps  

Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) products 

  • What is it? / Is there regulation? 
  • Usage / prevalence / concerns 

High-cost credit regulations 

  • Overview of existing frameworks/requirements  
  • Is more regulation coming? 

 

Please join us for an evening of music, food and beverages, plus a special Q&A session featuring insights and perspectives from corporate counsel on key issues and topics of interest to both inhouse counsel and those in the financial services sector.

We’re lawyers, not accountants, right? The impact of financial reporting standards during mergers and acquisitions
Andrew Turner (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

This article briefly discusses the necessity for lawyers to have an appropriate level of financial and accounting knowledge in order to understand and articulate financial principles.

This resource was originally published on the website of Eversheds Sutherland on September 13, 2023.

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Interest Area: Commercial and Contracts, Financial Services, Corporate, Securities, and Governance
Region: South Africa
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