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Legal Ease: A new framework

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Despite the European Parliament adopting new rules on the cross-border distribution of funds, the ultimate goal of a single European market for investment funds...

Legal Ease: Farewell to Libor

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Since the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority announced in 2017 that it would withdraw its support for the London Interbank Offered Rate (Libor) by the...

Legal Ease: The sustainability push

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The EU’s ambitions for sustainable finance touch most areas of financial services. The European Commission established a high-level expert group in 2016 with the...

Legal Ease: Keeping tabs on the GDPR

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Until recently, we hadn’t witnessed any enforcement action under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). But, nearly 12 months on from its implementation, some...

Legal Ease: Spain’s ETF tax regime

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Exchange-traded funds (ETFs) offer many advantages, including efficiency, high liquidity and speed in gaining exposure to the securities market. Since 2016, ETFs not listed on...

Legal Ease: All change in Switzerland

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The Swiss fund market is the fourth largest in Europe with a 7.2 % market share and a total volume of 1,088.8 billion Swiss...

Legal Ease: Regulating marketing

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Alternative investment fund managers wanting to raise money in the EEA in the future will need to monitor forthcoming changes to the rules. Proposed...

LEGAL EASE: Changing offices

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The past year has seen significant change for the UK commercial office investment market. A combination of factors, both international and domestic, has contributed...

LEGAL EASE: Brexit and the GDPR

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Even though the UK has now implemented the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), it’ll need to agree new arrangements with the EU post-Brexit. Last August,...

LEGAL EASE: ESG – the clean mainstream

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Until recently, ethical investing was seen as an expensive fad, sacrificing returns for principles. However, the fad has not gone away. In fact, it...

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