Martin Blake

Sep 13, 2024 | farrer.co.uk | Martin Blake |Suzanne Conticelli

On 12 September 2024, the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published its second near-final policy statement (PS9/24 – Implementation of the Basel 3.1 standards near-final part 2 (see here) (PS9/24)) on implementing the Basel 3.1 standards for credit risk, the output floor, reporting and disclosure requirements. The first near-final policy statement was published on 12 December 2023 (PS17/23: see here).

Jan 30, 2024 | farrer.co.uk | Simon Ward |Anthony P. Turner |Martin Blake |Mark Gauguier |Alan Baker

As we progress into 2024, we wanted to share insights from our private capital experts for the year ahead and what factors are likely to have an impact on deal activity, access to capital and the availability of liquidity for private companies and their investors. Renewed M&A activityThe prevalence of higher interest rates and a year of political change and economic uncertainty will continue to mean that the “valuation gap” between seller and buyer will take time to converge.