Legal Updates & Insights

Dec 2017

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This article considers some of the key developments over the past year in Northern Ireland, and the wider UK, together with a tentative look at what 2018 may bring, with GDPR...

Dec 2017

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From an International perspective we look at ESMA asset management sector priorities in 2018, ELTIFs and AML/CTF.

Dec 2017

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From a domestic perspective, we look at some compliance deadlines, Variation Margin requirements under EMIR, and a CBI AML/CTF bulletin.

Dec 2017

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Are non-UCITS which are not selling to EEA Retail Investors required to produce a PRIIPs KID?

Dec 2017

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A&L Goodbody has launched a new GDPR Ireland App. The App is an essential resource for businesses who will have to comply with increased data protection obligations under the...

Dec 2017

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On 12 December, 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published its Guidelines on Consent under the GDPR Consent is one of the lawful grounds on which personal data processing may be based.

Dec 2017

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On 12 December, 2017, the Article 29 Working Party (WP29) published its Guidelines on Transparency.

Dec 2017

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The CBI issued a statement setting out their intended response to the requirement for financial counterparties to exchange mandatory variation margin (VM) for physically-settled FX forwards from 3 January 2018

Dec 2017

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The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has published an Anti-Money Laundering Bulletin addressing Section 33(8) of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) Act, 2010 (CJA). The Bulletin outlines the types...

Dec 2017

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The European Commission issued a press release which includes a factsheet and which states that the Council of the EU and the European Parliament have reached political agreement on the...