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Insurance Newsletter - June 2024 In this newsletter we discuss: artificial intelligence and insurance, including insights from our recent webinar where are we with Solvency II reform? Consumer Duty deadlines current trends and themes from around Europe, presented by a number of our... BLOG: Lessons learned from JTI and other recent unallowable purpose cases The main lesson to be learned is that it all depends on the specific facts and how they are presented to the fact-finding tribunal! JTI is the third unallowable purpose case decided by the UK Court of Appeal this year, the previous two being BlackRock and... BLOG: Change: Labour Party Manifesto 2024 Latest polling figures for the UK’s general election on 4 July continue to indicate a change in government as Labour, the main opposition party, enjoys a c. 20 percentage point lead over the Conservative Party which has governed the UK since 2010. What mi... EFIG: European Banking Newsletter – June 2024 Developments in this month's edition include: Proposed regulation and directive on payment and electronic money services - ECB publishes opinion Draft RTS on equivalent mechanism for unfinished property under CRR - EBA consults MREL policy - upd... BLOG: Good news for secondary debt markets in interest withholding tax case before UK Upper Tribunal HMRC v Burlington Loan Management DAC is an important decision for the smooth running of secondary debt markets. It is also a helpful precedent for tax authorities, taxpayers and tax advisers alike as they spend more time in the future considering when an... Competition & Regulatory Newsletter: DMCC Act receives Royal Assent On 24 May 2024, the long-awaited Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 received Royal Assent. The Act introduces sweeping reforms to UK competition law and consumer protection. It creates a new ex-ante regulatory regime aimed at increasing c... New UK securitisation regulations - Edinburgh reforms In this Article, Louis Kriechbaum discusses the new UK Securitisation Regulations and the Edinburgh Reforms. HM’s Treasury, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) and the Financial Conduction Authority (“FCA”) have each... First time originator's guide to securitisation In this Article, Peaches Stanforth discusses the advantages of securitisation for originators considering it for the first time. Originators can use securitisation to achieve a lower cost of funding than from other debt products and to remove securitised... Securitisation reporting - revisiting the distinction between public and private securitisations In this article we describe the current distinction between private and public securitisations in the EU and UK (which is currently being reviewed by regulators) and the need for changes in the EU and UK to dovetail with one another. Introduction Both t... UK developments: Consumer duty and other current regulatory topics affecting securitised assets Developments in UK financial regulation over the last 18 months have substantially increased the attention which originators, other participants and investors in securitisations of UK retail assets need to give to regulatory risk. Developments in UK fina...