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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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While transition planning is not mandatory for scheme trustees, the Regulator’s view is that this exercise is useful in the management of climate-related financial risks and opportunities.
The Transition Plan Taskforce was announced at COP26 in Glasgow 2021 and launched in April 2022 to engage globally with organisations in the transition to net zero.
Resources recently published by the Taskforce include a disclosure framework and implementation guidance, together with case studies relating to various elements of the transition cycle.
The Regulator recently published its findings of a review of 30 climate change governance reports relating to scheme year end dates between October 1, 2022, and September 30, 2023. See our report here.
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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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