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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. Please refer to the updated First Time Originator’s Guide to Securitisation published in November 2024, here. Originato... BLOG: The Omnibus and the Compass: more details emerge of EU plans to simplify sustainability legislation On 29 January, the European Commission published an official communication on ‘ A Competitiveness Compass for the EU’ (‘the Compass’). While fairly high-level, it gives some early insights into what the EU’s much anticipated sustainability ‘omnibus' ... BLOG: Does antitrust law stand in the way of Net Zero Alliances? At the start of 2025, JP Morgan announced that it was exiting the Net Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA), a UN- convened group of leading global banks - launched in April 2021 - to align their lending, investment and capital markets activities with net zero gre... BLOG: The EU’s Gender Balance Directive: Balance in the Boardroom The recently transposed EU Gender Balance on Corporate Boards Directive (the Directive) will require large EU-listed companies to ensure that members of the “underrepresented sex” hold at least 40% of their non-executive director positions, and 33% of the... New Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regime: FCA consults on further aspects including facilitating issuance of low denomination bonds On 31 January 2025, the FCA published Consultation Paper CP25/2: Further Changes to the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regime and the UK Listing Rules which sets out further proposed changes as part of the reforms to the UK prospectus regime... Superhuman resources: responsible deployment of AI in business Slaughter and May and ASI Data Science, the high-growth British Technology firm, have published Superhuman Resources, a joint white paper on the responsible deployment of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in business. We believe that AI could become the most t... BLOG: A question of interpretation: the UK Supreme Court’s decision in Royal Bank of Canada All has ended well for the Royal Bank of Canada (RBC) following the Supreme Court’s majority decision (4:1) that the UK does not have taxing rights over the “royalty” payments RBC received. The value of these payments was dependant on the price and volume... Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 13 February 2025 Corporate Update Bulletin - 6 February 2025 Corporate Update is our fortnightly bulletin highlighting the latest legal and regulatory developments of interest to corporates. Welcome to the latest edition of Corporate Update, our fortnightly bulletin offering a five-minute read of the latest develop... Global Investigations Bulletin - February 2025 Welcome to Slaughter and May’s February edition of the Global Investigations Bulletin, a digest of key developments and recent news in global investigations and enforcement. In this edition we look at evolving themes in FCA enforcement and offer insights ...