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Employment Rates and Limits Compensation limits (including unfair dismissal); statutory payments; income tax and National Insurance rates; National Minimum Wage; amounts recoverable from the National Insurance Fund. Document setting out the current relevant rate... Regulating AI Series With the adoption and regulation of artificial intelligence leading the news globally, our Regulating AI series will help you understand, explore and manage the use of AI within your organisation from a legal perspective. The series is a collection of AI-... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter - April 2023 Developments in this month's edition include:  Climate-related disclosure for structured finance products - Joint Statement published by the ECB and the ESAs  Benchmarking diversity practices and the gender pay gap - EBA publishes report... UK net zero policy: Key takeaways from the Powering Up Britain package 2023 The Sunak government set out its vision of the UK’s transition to a net zero, nature-positive economy in a series of publications on 30 March 2023. Originally dubbed “Green Day” and renamed “Energy Security Day”, the difficul... Global Investigations Bulletin (April 2023) Our latest Global Investigations Bulletin for April 2023 is now available. This month, we discuss the “failure to prevent” model for corporate criminal offences, and set out the latest news in global investigations and enforcement actions. Group news Ra... H2Global: The emergence of a new standard offtake agreement for synthetic fuels? Green hydrogen and its derivative products (are expected to play a key role in the energy transition. We consider the terms of the hydrogen purchase agreement proposed by the H2Global initiative, which has potential to become market-setting for these nove... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: European Court of Justice holds that concentrations falling below merger control thresholds can be subject to ex-post review for abuse of dominance The European Court of Justice (CJ) has held that concentrations that fall below merger control thresholds can still be subject to ex-post review under the abuse of dominance rules. The Towercast judgment, handed down on 16 March 2023, therefore recognises... Changes to pensions tax allowances: an update Following the announcement of radical and far-reaching changes to pensions tax allowances in the Budget, summarised in our HR Budget Briefing, further details were set out in the recent Finance Bill.   Introduction Following the announcement of rad... The Green Subsidy Arms Race Last year the US Government announced the largest package of government support for the energy transition offered by any country in the world. In turn, the European Commission recently announced its Green Deal Industrial Plan and proposed easing restricti... AT1 Write-down and conversion triggers Part of the disposal of Credit Suisse Group AG’s (CSG) disposal to UBS has included the write-down of CSG’s additional tier 1 (AT1) instruments and resulted in AT1 investors bearing losses ahead of CSG’s common equity tier 1 (CET1) inves...