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Financial Services Regulation and Compliance - Banking Mar 2021
Domestically, the CBI has published revised guidance and forms for payment and e-money institutions; At European level, the EBA has launched public consultations on draft ITS on Pillar 3 disclosures on...
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Financial Services Regulation and Compliance - Insurance Mar 2021
Domestically, the CBI published its first insurance quarterly newsletter of 2021; At European level, EIOPA advised the European Commission on insurer's KPIs on sustainability for non-financial reporting; launched a comparative study...
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Q&A guide to the Brexit Trade & Cooperation Agreement
The adoption in December 2020 of the Trade and Cooperation Agreement between the European Union and the United Kingdom was welcomed because it avoided a No Deal Brexit.
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Asset Management & Investment Funds: EU & International Developments - Mar 2021
Taxonomy Regulation, NFRD and sustainability reporting, Liquidity, MMF reform, Brexit and benchmarks, IOSCO, EU Commissioner Mairead McGuinness' vision for the financial services sector, AML
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Asset Management & Investment Funds: Irish Practice Developments - Mar 2021
Outsourcing, Liquidity, CBI markets update, AML
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Progress on Irish gambling law reform ramping up
Minister of State in the Department of Justice, James Browne, updated the cabinet this week on progress on the reform of Ireland's gambling laws.
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Irish defamation laws - an all island approach
Long awaited and overdue reviews of defamation laws in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland are expected to gather pace in the coming months.
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articleRecent developments in Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance in the Irish construction industry
The Irish construction Professional Indemnity (PI) insurance market has been noticeably hardening in recent years. Having enjoyed quite a lengthy period of relatively stable market conditions, it is our experience...
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Central Bank Consumer and Investor Protection Priorities
Director General for Financial Conduct, Derville Rowland, outlined the Central Bank of Ireland's (Central Bank) priorities for consumer and investor protection for 2021 at an online event on 16 March 2021. The priorities...
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Supreme Court Clarifies when new arguments and new evidence can be admitted in Non-Plenary Appeals
In delivering its judgment in Ennis vs Allied Irish Bank plc1 , the Supreme Court provided useful guidance as to the tests to be applied when assessing whether new arguments and...
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Supreme Court confirms that Irish security for costs orders are compatible with EU law
The Supreme Court this week delivered judgment in two separate security for costs appeals.
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Five things you might not have known about Brexit’s Trade and Cooperation Agreement
Despite being announced on 24 December 2020 and signed on 30 December 2020, the TCA is still not in full force. For example, it is still only "provisional". The European Parliament and the European...
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