Sep 2016

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On the Domestic Front: Central Bank of Ireland publishes its Regulatory Service Standards Performance Report for January to June 2016; On the EU Front: EU Commission published its report on the Remuneration Rules for Credit Institutions and Investment Firms; IOSCO publishes a consultation report on good practices for the termination of investment funds.

Sep 2016

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On the Domestic Front: Department of Justice and Equality publishes outline of "Scheme of Aid and Advice on Home Mortgage Arrears"; Central Bank of Ireland publishes Economic Letter on "Private Placement Instruments and the Wholesale Funding of the Banking System in Ireland".

Sep 2016

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On the Domestic Front: Central Bank of Ireland publishes guidelines for Solvency II (re)insurance undertakings on directors' certifications.

Sep 2016

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Vincent Power, Catherine Duffy and Eileen Roberts, Partners at A&L Goodbody, provide an overview of shipping law, the shipping industry, regulation and the legislative framework in Ireland.

Aug 2016

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To coincide with back to school season, we are including a Question of the month in the Front Page. We invite readers to send topical questions which would be of general interest to readers to A&L Goodbody Investment Funds - frontpage@algoodbody.com. Each month we will choose a question and publish the question and answer. We look forward to hearing from you

Aug 2016

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On the International Front we look at an EU Commission Report for Credit Institutions and Investment Firms on Remuneration Rules, an IOSCO consultation on good practices for the termination of investment funds, an IOSCO report on good practice for CIS fees and expenses and AML/CFT developments.

Aug 2016

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On the Domestic front, we look at some approaching deadlines, a Central Bank H2 Regulatory Service Standards Performance Report on FSP/F&P Authorisation, the resignation of Gareth Murphy as Central Bank Director of Markets Supervision, CP 86- third consultation and an Irish Funds paper on Financial Reporting and Regulatory Disclosure.

Aug 2016

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With the current State aid issues regarding recapitalisation of banks in Italy and the on-going post-Financial crisis rescue of banks across the EU (including Ireland), the Court of Justice has given a preliminary ruling following a reference from a Slovenian court which queried the compatibility of the 2013 Commission Communication on aid to the banking sector in the context of burden-sharing

Aug 2016

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Will the Brexit Crisis be resolved? The good news is that ultimately the current crisis will be resolved to a greater or lesser extent.

Aug 2016

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The Companies (Accounting) Bill (the Accounting Bill) was published earlier today. When enacted and in force, the Accounting Bill will transpose into Irish law the Accounting Directive (Directive 2013/34/EU (as amended) on the annual financial statements, consolidated financial statements and related reports of certain types of undertakings), as amended (the Accounting Directive).