Episode 22: Payments Monthly The FCA wants more powers to regulate the conduct of individuals working in the payments sector. In this episode, Nik Kiri, Jean Price and Simon Treacy look at the FCA’s individual accountability regime – the SMCR – and predict how it could be applied to payments and e-money firms.
Episode 6: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this podcast episode we discuss implications for asset managers of the FCA's second consultation paper on its proposed new consumer duty, including its scope, interaction with existing Principles, application throughout the distribution chain, monitoring and testing, and steps that asset managers can take now to prepare. This episode features Raza Naeem and Sara Cody (counsel, financial regulation, London). It complements our podcast episode on the implicati...
Episode 5: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this podcast episode we discuss the FCA's second consultation paper on its proposed new consumer duty. What's changed between the first and second consultation? What questions does the second consultation paper answer? And what steps can you take to prepare? This episode features Gavin Lewis (partner, dispute resolution, London) and Sara Cody (counsel, financial regulation, London). Visit our consumer duty webpage for all our resources on the proposed consum...
Episode 9: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the ninth episode, Sarina Williams and Jason Shardlow-Wrest are joined by Iona McCall from AlixPartners to discuss the role of “pass-on” in competition damages claims.
Episode 5: Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook for 2022 2021 was a record year for FDI developments, with expectations that the current proliferation of regimes will continue at pace over the course of 2022. It is ever more important for parties to prepare thoroughly, including by having a detailed understanding of a target’s activities, and consider deal conditionality very carefully whilst watching out for the impact of politics on deals, particularly in hotly contested regional dispute...
Episode 4: Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook for 2022 Competition authorities are slowly adjusting their rules to keep pace with on-line consumer rights, with businesses facing more guidance and consistency in their activities. In 2022 we anticipate agencies will start deciding on policy changes and putting them into practice. However, it’s still unclear how far-reaching (and useful) the changes will be for businesses considering collaborative sustainability initiatives with competitors...
Episode 3: Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook for 2022 As the world ‘builds back better’ from the pandemic, there has been a renewed push to ensure that markets function effectively. As a result, the lockdown-induced slowdown in enforcement activity has already come to an abrupt end. The tech sector in particular is under pressure, and it is a truth universally acknowledged that a tech giant must be in want of regulation. So reads the hymn sheet for 2022 for virtually every major antitru...
Episode 2: Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook for 2022 Deal making is facing new uncertainties, as acquisitions that can be perceived as stifling future competition are increasingly called-in for merger review, even in the absence of compulsory notifications. Regulators are reacting to a debate on alleged “underenforcement” – in particular, those known as ‘killer acquisitions’. In jurisdictions with a mandatory turnover threshold regime, residual call-in rights are seen as part of the so...
Epsiode 1: Antitrust & Foreign Investment Outlook for 2022 Listen to our Outlook for 2022 podcast, in which partners from across the globe discuss the most important developments and issues we expect to see in 2022. From key trends in merger control and antitrust enforcement to upcoming rule changes for tech businesses, sustainability initiatives and online sales, our expert team share their insights and predictions on some of the main challenges facing your business in 2022.
Episode 8: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the eighth episode, Haidee Barratt and Alex Hannington are joined by Oliver Latham from Charles River Associates to discuss the role of factual witness and expert evidence in competition claims, taking into account the BritNed decision and the recent CPR and CAT practice directions concerning the preparation of factual witness statements.
In this podcast, Toby Grimstone, Nick Le Masurier and Atish Shah take a look at the challenges faced by corporates and how creditors have reacted since the start of the Covid-19 pandemic. They discuss what the potential market trends in the crossover credit space are and their likely impact on future financings and/or restructurings.
Episode 10: Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing In this podcast episode we discuss the Singapore's regulatory approach to non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing. This episode features Singapore partners Peiying Chua (financial regulation), Laure de Panafieu (employment & incentives) and Jelita Pandjaitan (dispute resolution), and managing associate Duncan Campbell (contentious regulation, London). For more detail, see our full publication reviewing the approach to non-financial ...
In this short podcast, our Head of Hong Kong Employment & Incentives Samantha Cornelius joins Joshua Li, a Managing Associate within the team, in discussing the most typical questions being asked by employers when developing a staff vaccination policy for Covid-19 in Hong Kong SAR, including mandating of vaccines, the underlying legal risks and implications, and the collection of data on vaccination status.
Episode 7: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the seventh episode, James Hennah and Alice Shaw discuss disclosure and confidentiality in competition litigation.
Episode 1: Global Foreign Investment Podcast Series Our first podcast features Nicole Kar, Head of London & Dublin Antitrust & Foreign Investment Group, alongside Chris Blairs, Deputy Director, and Andy Ormerod-Cloke, Head of Policy at the new Investment Security Unit (ISU), BEIS. Together they discuss the operational aspects of the ISU and filings from 4 January once the NSIA takes effect. Topics covered include: a deep-dive into the Investment Security Unit – the operational unit withi...
Episode 9: Global Business Crime Outlook In our ninth episode Alison Saunders is joined by Adam Lurie, Elly Proudlock and our guest speaker, Christopher Kerrigan, Partner at Allens in which they discuss the current DPA regimes in the UK and US as well as the proposed new regime for Australia. We also focus on the challenges that the UK and US authorities have faced with DPAs and try to examine what issues a new Australian model might have.
Episode 6: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the sixth episode, Harriet Ellis, James Hennah and Alice Shaw discuss the English courts approach to jurisdiction in competition litigation claims.
Episode 8: Operational Resilience Raza Naeem, Clare Wiles and Simon Treacy assess how prepared the UK asset management sector is for operational resilience rules to take effect. Raza Naeem, Counsel: “At this stage and over the next year or so there’s still time to pin down that legal analysis and recalibrate if necessary.”
Episode 5: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the fifth episode, Tom Cassels and Jason Shardlow-Wrest discuss what ‘applicable law’ means, and how issues of applicable law might arise in competition litigation.
Episode 1 Whilst at COP26 in Glasgow, Matt Sparkes, Global Head of Sustainability at Linklaters, interviewed Linklaters alumnus Olivia McKendrick and National Geographic photographer Chris Rainier, co-founders of the Cultural Sanctuaries Foundation . The Foundation's mission is to protect indigenous cultures, which are crucial in the global fight against climate change and wilderness destruction. 80% of the world’s remaining wilderness is cared for by indigenous peoples and it is these communiti...
Our China Head of AFIG Fay Zhou together with Arthur Peng shares with Marcus Pollard about the latest Draft Amendments to the Anti-Monopoly Law in China, expected to be the largest set of changes to the country’s competition law since it came into force, as well as other recent highlights developments around SAMR’s draft platform guidelines and the Price Law. Diving into the substantial changes proposed in the Draft, our experts share their views on the implications and what they foresee. Tune i...
Episode 12: ESG Soundbite Series In our second podcast, David Ballegeer and Linda Taylor , together with Els Janssens , explore how the proposed EU Green Bond Standard fits into the broader EU sustainability plan, in particular the taxonomy and its new reporting requirements and key performance indicators (KPIs). They also discuss how it interacts with Sustainability-Linked Bonds (SLBs), where KPIs also play a key role....
Episode 4: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the fourth episode, Sarina Williams and Haidee Barratt discuss what ‘limitation’ means, why it’s important, and the key statutory rules and court decisions which determine limitation periods applicable to competition damages claims in the UK.
Episode 4: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this podcast episode we discuss aspects of the FCA's proposed financial services consumer duty that may have particular implications for both retail and wholesale asset managers - including how the duty can apply to various firms in the distribution chain, how the consumer duty could go beyond existing TCF obligations, and a focus on communications and fair value. This episode features Sara Cody and Raza Naeem, both counsel in our London financial regulation...
In this episode, Linh Bui from Allens’ Ho Chi Minh City office is invited to join Marcus Pollard in discussing how the competition landscape in Vietnam has evolved over the recent years under the new law and what they anticipate to come next especially with a new competition enforcer to be established next year. Our experts share the notable features of the country’s current merger control regime and the practical issues to pay attention to in their experience. Listen now and stay on top of the ...
Episode 3: Competition Litigation Podcast Series In the third episode, we discuss the rise of collective actions for competition damages claims in the UK, including the Merricks, Le Patourel and boundary fares certification decisions. Sarina Williams and James Hennah are joined by Lesley Hannah from Hausfeld LLP, who provides key insights from a claimant perspective.
Episode 7: Operational Resilience Sumit Indwar, Eugénie Levy and Kishore Bhindi discuss the SFC’s circular on operational resilience and remote working and how the Hong Kong approach compares with the UK regime. Sumit Indwar, Partner: “Firms may already have much of this in place, but it will be a case of clearly documenting and flagging those measures as part of their operational resilience plans.”
In this episode, our Jakarta-based partner Yolanda Hutapea shares with Kathleen Gooi the latest enforcement priorities of KPPU, the Indonesian antitrust regulator, following the extensive legal reforms under the Omnibus Law, and gives an update on KPPU’s increasing attention in the digital sector and new developments of the country’s post-notification regime including the creation of the largest tech group in Southeast Asia. Listen now and get up to speed with what you need to know when investin...
Episode 2: Countdown to IFPR and the new pay rules How the MIFIDPRU pay code ramps up the requirements, the proportionality threshold for non-SNI firms and some tricky issues with remuneration committees requirements, malus and clawback policies and setting the fixed to variable pay ratio.
Episode 21: Payments Monthly In this month’s payments podcast, Harry Eddis, Jean Price and Simon Treacy cover the Treasury’s consultation on buy-now pay-later and one of the team tries out BNPL for the first time.
