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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
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On August 16, 2024, the Chancellor launched the UK pensions review promised in the Labour party’s election manifesto. It is to be run by Emma Reynolds, the Minister for Pensions, and the first phase is focussed on investment and the terms of reference set out the four areas where policy development will be targeted initially.
The first phase of the review will focus on developing policy in four areas:
Initial findings are due to be reported later this year ahead of the introduction of the Pension Schemes Bill. The second phase is due to start later in 2024 and, alongside investment, will consider further steps to improve pension outcomes, including assessing retirement adequacy. Ongoing policy development in the DB workplace pension sphere will remain separate from the review.
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On 31 October 2023, the Screening of Third Country Transactions Act 2023 (the “Act”), which establishes a new foreign direct investment ("FDI") screening regime in Ireland, was enacted.
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The EU Foreign Subsidies Regulation, or FSR, is intended to prevent or remedy distortions of the EU internal market caused by “foreign” – meaning non-EU – subsidies benefitting companies active in the EU.
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The conventional wisdom is that ‘securitisation caused the great financial crisis’ (GFC). A further piece of conventional wisdom is that this was due to the misalignment of incentives between securitisation originators and securitisation investors . This conventional wisdom in turn drove much of the regulation of securitisation we now have.
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