Legal Updates & Insights

Jan 2018

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The Article 29 Working Party (WP29) has published Guidelines on Data Protection Officers (DPOs).

Jan 2018

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This month the EU and the European Parliament reached political agreement on the proposed Fifth Anti- Money Laundering Directive, while in Ireland the Central Bank amended its Fitness and Probity...

Jan 2018

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MiFID II and MiFIR were implemented on 3 January 2018. In advance of this, ESMA continued to issue a number of updates to its Q&As on both pieces of legislation as...

Jan 2018

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On the domestic front, the Central Bank published its fourth Insurance Quarterly Newsletter of 2017. They also published research into the attitude, behaviour and experience of consumers when buying gadget insurance...

Jan 2018

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This update covers a Central Bank statement on variation margin requirements under EMIR for physically settled FX forwards, ELTIFs and ESMA asset management sector priorities in 2018.

Jan 2018

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On the domestic front, the Central Bank has issued a Progress Report on its Tracker Mortgage Examination. On a European level, the EBA welcomed the agreement reached on the finalisation...

Jan 2018

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On 19 December our Knowledge Bulletin reported that political agreement had been reached on the 5AMLD. This agreed text has now been published.

Jan 2018

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2017 saw the second highest ever annual number of notifications of M&A deals to the European Commission

Jan 2018

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Annual review of M&A transactions notified to Ireland's Competition and Consumer Protection Commission.

Jan 2018

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The European Commission revises the public procurement thresholds every two years. The new thresholds, published on 18 December 2017, apply from 1 January 2018.