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Jul 3, 2024 | 
mondaq.com | Hannah Meakin |Haney Saadah
In the first episode of our podcast series, Risks Redefined,
brought to you by the Risk Advisory team, Hannah Meakin and Haney
Saadah discuss the upcoming UK general election and what this will
mean for firms with regards to compliance, in both the lead up to
the election and the implications of the various potential
outcomes.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Matthew Gregory |Haney Saadah |Uzmah Yunis |Anita Edwards
On 23 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Consultation Paper 24/8 ‘Extending the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements regime to portfolio management’ (CP24/8). In CP24/8 the FCA sets out proposals to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and investment labels regime to portfolio management services.
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Apr 23, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Matthew Gregory |Haney Saadah |Uzmah Yunis |Anita Edwards
On 23 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its finalised non-handbook guidance (FG24/3) on the anti-greenwashing rule. The guidance is intended to help firms understand and comply with the anti-greenwashing rule, which comes into force on 31 May 2024. BackgroundThe anti-greenwashing rule is part of a package of measures the FCA finalised in 2023 and published in its Policy Statement on sustainability disclosure requirements and investment labels (PS23/16).
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Apr 11, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Simon Lovegrove |Haney Saadah
On 10 April 2024, the European Parliament (EP) issued a press release confirming that MEPs have approved delaying sector specific sustainability reporting standards, as well as general reporting standards for non-EU companies. The press release outlined that:Sector specific standards for EU companies and general standards for non-EU companies are to be adopted in 2026, as opposed to 2024.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Haney Saadah |Will Troutman |Andrew Lom
On Thursday 11 April 2024, as part of our global ESG webinar series, please join us for the second instalment of this webinar series, as we will be taking a closer look at the ESG financial services trends in the US. This webinar, featuring a discussion with members of our US ESG team, will include a closer look at the new US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and Californian ESG legislation from a financial services perspective.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Haney Saadah |Simon Lovegrove
On 9 April 2024, the Transition Plan Taskforce (TPT) published the final set of transition plan resources to help businesses unlock finance for net zero.
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Mar 26, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Simon Lovegrove |Haney Saadah
On 26 March 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a consultation paper containing draft technical standards supplementing the EU Green Bond Regulation. The consultation paper is the first of two consultations planned by ESMA with the other set for Q1 2025. The EU Green Bond Regulation lays down uniform requirements for issuers of bonds that wish to use the designation ‘European green bond’ or ‘EuGB’ for their environmentally sustainable bonds.
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Mar 19, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Simon Lovegrove |Haney Saadah
On 15 March 2024, the Council of the EU published a letter it had sent to the Chair of the European Parliament’s Committee on Legal Affairs concerning the proposed Directive on Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence and amending the Whistleblower Directive. The letter states that following informal trilogue between the three institutions on 13 December 2023 a draft compromise package (set out in an annex to the letter) has now been agreed by the Permanent Representatives Committee.
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Mar 13, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Katie Stephen |Hannah Meakin |Haney Saadah |Lizzie Cox
On 5 March 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a warning to firms about common failings it has identified in firms’ financial crime controls. It wrote to CEOs of Annex 1 firms, setting out the findings from its recent assessments of how firms are complying with anti-money laundering (AML) regulations.
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Mar 5, 2024 | 
regulationtomorrow.com | Haney Saadah |Cyril Clugnac |Claire Guilbert |Sebastien Praicheux
On 29 February 2024, members of the Norton Rose Fulbright Risk Advisory and Financial Services team hosted the first in our three part webinar series on ESG. In this first instalment of the webinar series the team provided an analysis into the SFDR vs the SDR. In addition, the team looked closely at the increasing risks of greenwashing, highlighting what firms should be aware of and how they can best alleviate the risk.
