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May 22, 2024
UK Gov't Calls Elections For July 4 Despite Poor Polls
Prime Minister Rishi Sunak on Wednesday called an early general election to be held on July 4, advancing the electoral timetable even though his Conservative Party lags decisively behind the opposition Labour Party.
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May 22, 2024
City Group Warns Financial Fraud Still Major Problem
A City trade body for financial institutions said Tuesday that payment fraud remains a major problem, with criminals stealing more than £1 billion ($1.27 billion) in 2023, shifting into growth areas such as mobile banking.
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May 22, 2024
EU Watchdog Seeks New Powers For Markets Regulation
The European Union's financial markets watchdog called Tuesday for more regulatory powers and a simplified rulebook to improve the bloc's declining global competitiveness.
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May 22, 2024
Gov't Dismisses 'Arbitrary Deadline' On Pensions Redress
The government on Wednesday shrugged off calls to draw up plans by the summer for a redress program for millions of women who have been underpaid under state pension plans.
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May 21, 2024
13 Clyde & Co. Lawyers Defect To Kennedys In Madrid
Kennedys has hired 13 lawyers including a trio of insurance partners from Clyde & Co. LLP for its Madrid office, with the firm intent on strengthening its footing in one of Europe's key arenas.
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May 21, 2024
EU Gives Final Approval To World's First AI Rulebook
European Union law negotiators gave the final green light on Tuesday to the first worldwide rules on artificial intelligence across most sectors including financial services, classifying its usage in bank lending risk assessments or insurance underwriting for EU citizens as high-risk.
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May 21, 2024
I Am An Honest Man, British Trader Tells £1.4B Fraud Trial
Sanjay Shah, a former hedge fund owner who is accused of defrauding Denmark's tax authority out of £1.4 billion ($1.8 billion), told a London court on Tuesday that he is an "honest man" who traded using a legal "loophole."
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May 21, 2024
Finance Pros 'Too Afraid' To Blow Whistle On Fraud
More than three-quarters of finance professionals in the U.K. stayed silent after spotting or suspecting internal fraud in their workplaces, a survey published on Tuesday showed, with nearly half saying they feared a backlash.
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May 21, 2024
UK Pension Reform Could Create 'Too Big To Fail' Providers
The proposed government fix for the spiraling number of retirement savings pots could create pension giants that are too big to fail, an industry body warned on Tuesday.
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May 21, 2024
Ex-Insurance Exec's Wife Denies Knowledge Of Illegal Money
The wife of a former executive at Gable Insurance has denied cashing in on unauthorized payments from her husband who, the Liechtenstein insurer alleges, siphoned off millions of pounds from the company to accounts he had links to.
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May 21, 2024
Investor Launches Property JV With USS Pension Scheme
Real estate investor Assura PLC said on Tuesday it has agreed to a £250 million ($318 million) joint venture with the U.K.'s largest private pension scheme to support investment in National Health Service buildings for community care services.
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May 21, 2024
Freshfields Helps Warburg Pincus Buy Insurance Intermediary
Private equity giant Warburg Pincus and Temasek of Singapore will buy Specialist Risk Group, a London-headquartered company that has brokered more than £1 billion ($1.3 billion) worth of insurance risk, the companies said on Tuesday.
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May 20, 2024
Lessors File Russia-Stranded Planes Cases After Major Ruling
Two aircraft lessors have filed details of claims against insurers in London for a combined total of $62.1 million over planes stranded in Russia because of the invasion of Ukraine after a landmark ruling tossed attempts to move the cases and others to Russia.
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May 20, 2024
Watchdog Finds Pensions Minister Broke Rules On Expenses
Paul Maynard, the pensions minister, broke parliamentary rules on expenses when he failed to properly manage the use of his taxpayer-funded office for political campaigning, a standards body has ruled.
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May 20, 2024
UK Leads Europe In Financial Services Investment, EY Says
The U.K. has solidified its position as Europe's top destination for foreign direct investment in financial services as it attracted 108 investment projects in 2023 compared to 76 a year earlier, the Big Four accounting firm EY said Monday.
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May 20, 2024
Step Up Action On Financial Abuse, FCA Tells Firms
The Financial Conduct Authority has called on regulated firms to take further steps to stop financial abuse of individuals through manipulation of banking or insurance products as it looks through the lens of the Consumer Duty.
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May 20, 2024
Pension Funds Under-Investing In UK Assets, Minister Warns
Pension schemes are not investing enough in Britain, a Treasury minister has warned, adding that the government will consider what "further action" is necessary to stimulate the capital injection that lawmakers want for the economy.
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May 17, 2024
UK Litigation Roundup: Here's What You Missed In London
This past week in London has seen a wave of claims filed against Verity Trustees Ltd., Harley-Davidson hit retailer Next with an intellectual property claim, Turkish e-commerce entrepreneur Demet Mutlu sue her ex-husband and Trendyol co-founder Evren Üçok and the Solicitors Regulation Authority file a claim against the former boss of collapsed law firm Axiom. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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May 17, 2024
Pensioners Lose £80M In Credit Over Submission Errors
The Department for Work and Pensions has said that retirees lost out on £80 million ($102 million) in payments to help top up their weekly income to a minimum level because they submitted inaccurate information about themselves in the last financial year.
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May 17, 2024
Insurers Seek Exclusion From EU Late Payment Rules
European insurers have called for their exclusion from the Late Payment Regulation proposed by the European Commission that would fix a single shorter payment period, warning that it ignores how insurance works.
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May 17, 2024
FCA Sets Out Consumer Duty Priorities For Closed Products
The Financial Conduct Authority has sent "Dear CEO" letters to multiple financial service firms, setting out its priorities for the July deadline to apply the Consumer Duty guidelines to closed-off products such as old savings accounts or insurance policies.
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May 17, 2024
ABN Amro To Sell Stake In Life Insurance JV Neuflize Vie
BN Amro Bank NV said Friday that its Neuflize OBC French private bank branch has entered "exclusive negotiations" to sell the unit to the insurance subsidiary of BNP Paribas SA to form a strategic partnership in life insurance in France.
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May 17, 2024
Asset Manager Alpha Growth To Buy Insurance Manager
British wealth manager Alpha Growth PLC said Friday that it will buy Guernsey-based insurance management company Jeometri for £450,000 ($569,000) to help it grow its insurance offering across the U.K.
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May 17, 2024
FCA To Weigh 'Sensitive, Emotive Issue' Of Probes Policy
The Financial Conduct Authority has said it "will take time" to consider widespread concerns over its proposals to identify companies or individuals under investigation after lawyers said the move could damage careers.
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May 16, 2024
Pension Scheme Profit Warnings Ease In First Quarter
The number of profit warnings issued by U.K.-listed companies with defined benefit pension schemes fell to 18 in the first quarter of this year, compared to 22 in the last three months of 2023, according to research published on Thursday by EY-Parthenon.
Expert Analysis
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What The Future Holds For UK Auditing Reform
The U.K.'s Financial Reporting Council has shown itself to be an increasingly effective and proactive regulator in its final months, and the greater powers of its incoming replacement — the Audit, Reporting and Governance Authority — will likely continue an era of heightened scrutiny for auditors, say Paul Brehony and Kate Gee at Signature Litigation.
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How UK Data Breach Ruling May Rein In Insurance Claims
The recent U.K. High Court ruling in Warren v. DSG Retail, which held that claimants can only pursue personal data claims provided for in data protection legislation, narrows the basis upon which claims can be made following a data breach, and could make lower-cost recovery of after-the-event insurance premiums a thing of the past, say attorneys at Jenner & Block.
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2nd Circ. Arbitral Award Ruling Signals Restrictive Approach
The Second Circuit's recent ruling in Gater Assets v. Moldovagaz, reversing a default judgment arbitration award on jurisdictional grounds, fortifies U.S. court protections for foreign states and state-owned entities, and forecasts the court's conservative approach to when nonparties can be bound by arbitration agreements, say attorneys at Cleary.
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Lloyds EU Operations Highlight Challenges For UK Insurers
Potential problems facing Lloyd's Europe could be shared by other U.K. insurers operating in the European Union's more stringent post-Brexit regulatory landscape, but individual countries' discrete provisions allowing for certain cross-border activities could enable a more nuanced approach, says Jeremy Irving at Browne Jacobson.
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The Risky Reality Of GDPR Noncompliance
With the General Data Protection Regulation remaining in force in the post-Brexit European Union, businesses should be aware not only of the increasing fines levied for noncompliance, but also of the expenses incurred for lost management time, the professional costs and the reputational damage, says Alexander Egerton at Seddons Law.
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An Underused Group Litigation Tool Could Help UK Claimants
Though the Financial Markets Test Case Procedure has only been used as a collective redress mechanism for the first time recently in Financial Conduct Authority v. Arch Insurance, hopefully it will be called on more often to resolve future post-Brexit issues and other pandemic cases, says Becca Hogan at Signature Litigation.
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Risk Management Lessons From Recent Finance Co. Failures
Investor exposure to Archegos Capital and Greensill Capital before their high-profile collapses earlier this year show puzzling lapses in internal controls and highlight key risk management considerations for investors, says Benedict Roth at Martello Financial Services.
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3 Risk Management Lessons From Pandemic Insurance Wars
As appellate decisions in COVID-19 business interruption insurance claims continue to clarify the state of the law, there are some things that policyholders' lawyers and risk managers can do in the meantime to help prepare for future unforeseen events affecting coverage, says Peter Halprin at Pasich.
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What New UK Money Laundering Law Means For Fintech
New U.K. money laundering legislation will likely benefit electronic money and payment institutions, but an increase in state forfeiture powers and a lingering possibility of a broad failure-to-prevent offense leave the fintech industry's regulatory future uncertain, say Andrew Herd and Helena Spector at Red Lion Chambers.
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UK Bill Must Navigate Crosscurrents Of Internet Regulation
The U.K.'s draft Online Safety Bill seeks to regulate a broad swath of online content and internet services but faces a number of potential implementation challenges, including balancing digital safety with freedom of expression and administering regulatory goals with frequently opposing objectives, say Ben Packer and Jemma Purslow at Linklaters.
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2 UK Pension Cases Guide On 3rd-Party Due Diligence
The U.K. Court of Appeal's recent decision in Adams v. Options UK, and upcoming hearing in Financial Conduct Authority v. Avacade, highlight important precautions self-invested personal pension operators should take when dealing with unauthorized third parties, says Paul Ashcroft at Wedlake Bell.
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Evaluating Insurance Options In Light Of Suez Canal Blockage
The recent blockage of the Suez Canal by the cargo ship Ever Given illustrates that manufacturers, carriers and recipients of internationally shipped goods should consider all the insurance offerings available to cover losses resulting from shipping delays, say David Klein and Ryan Vanderford at Pillsbury.
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Data Protection Considerations For Insurers Post-Brexit
Now that companies must comply with both U.K. and EU data protection laws, insurers operating in Europe face additional data exposure liability risks and should adjust their underwriting practices and policy wordings accordingly, says Charlotte Worlock at Atheria Law.
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Cargo Insurance May Cover Losses From Suez Canal Delays
Policyholders who have suffered economic losses from the recent Suez Canal blockage may be able to secure compensation from their standard cargo insurance policies, even if coverage for delays is explicitly precluded, says Jeremy Lawrence at Munger Tolles.
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3 Lessons For UK Litigators In Virtual Trials
UK litigators should note several best practices for adapting to the hurdles, and capitalizing on the benefits, of virtual trials, and expect the new hearing format to persist beyond the end of the pandemic, say Christopher Boyne and Emma Laurie-Rhodes at Debevoise.