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FCA Under Pressure To 'quickly' Deliver Solutions To Investment Trust Cost Disclosure Issues

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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt has said the government is pressing the Financial Conduct Authority to develop short-term solut... Read more

ECB Supports Creation Of Global Standards For AT1 Bonds After Credit Suisse Wipe-out - Reports

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The European Central Bank’s chief supervisor has expressed support for the creation of global standards for the conv... Read more

Lending A Hand Toward A More Sustainable Built Environment

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Investor interest in private markets continues to grow, despite market volatility and headwinds. Read more

FCA Removes Cap On Bankers' Bonuses To Mixed Reactions

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UK regulators have moved to scrap the cap on bankers’ bonuses from the end of this month, following ten months of ex... Read more

Deep Dive: MiFID II Could Open Path For A Nuclear Resurgence

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The ingrained focus on sustainability built into EU investor protection policy MiFID II could see the nuclear power se... Read more

EU Regulators 'look To Future' Of SFDR Application In Financial Services With In-depth Questionnaire

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The European Commission has opened an extensive review into how SFDR has been implemented in financial services since ... Read more

EU Regulator Fines WhatsApp $5.95 Million For Breach Of Privacy Laws

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The DPC, which acts as the EU's lead privacy regulator for Meta, said WhatsApp must reassess how it uses personal data f... Read more

EU's Privacy Watchdog Fines Meta $414 Mn For Ads Based On Online Activity

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EU's privacy watchdog tells firm it can't use its contracts with users to justify sending them such ads Read more

Deep Dive: Private Markets Take Steps Towards The 'mainstreaming' Of ESG

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As appetite for private markets grows, so does the demand for ESG solutions in the space. However, the lack of standar... Read more

Commodities Deep Dive: Time To Cop Some Copper?

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Commodities have been one of the few bright spots in global markets so far in 2022, as it is one of few assets to some... Read more

LGIM's Crossley: Shunning Open-ended Property Funds Is A 'travesty' For Investors

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Intermediaries pulling clients’ money out of open-ended property funds (PAIFs) based on regulatory fears is a “tra... Read more

EU Readies 'antitrust Charges' Against Apple Pay For Locking Rivals Out Of IPhone NFC Chip

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Monopoly is a board game, not a handbook Apple's decision to only allow Apple Pay to access the NFC chip in iPhones cou... Read more

One-size-fits-all Chargers? What A Great Idea! Of Course Apple Would Hate It

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Cupertino thinks EU USB-C plan 'stifles innovation rather than encouraging it' Updated  Smartphones, tablets, and came... Read more

Europe Mulls Anonymous Crypto-wallet Ban, Rules To Make Transfers More Traceable

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Won't someone please think of the ch, er, money laundering The European Commission has put forward legislation requirin... Read more

Brexit Trade Deal Advises Governments To Use Netscape Communicator And SHA-1. Why? It's All In The DNA

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A simple cut-and-paste text job from a 2008 EU treaty for genetic databases People are pointing to the inclusion of Net... Read more

European Commission: Full-scale Probe Launched Into Data-slurping Potential Of Google's $2.1bn Fitbit Buy

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'New investigation casts fresh uncertainty over the deal,' says analyst The European Commission has pulled out its micr... Read more

Markets Advance On Hopes For Vaccine, Focus On EU Summit

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The studies provided a much-needed shot in the arm for investors, who have been put on edge in recent weeks by worrying ... Read more

Angry EU Leaders Battle To Save Deadlocked Virus Recovery Summit

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The marathon talks chaired by EU Council President Charles Michel failed to yield agreement over the size, rules for a 7... Read more

Not So Nice, We Investigated Them Twice: EU Opens Double Whammy Of Inquiries Into Apple's Biz Practices

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App Store cut and Cupertino's NFC platform in competition crosshairs Updated  In the words of Brenda from Bristol: Ano... Read more

WTO Chief To Step Down Early As Global Economic Crisis Rages

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The Brazilian diplomat, who became the WTO chief in 2013, suggested that an early change of leadership would help it fac... Read more