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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 most recent Finance Bill, which sets out the legislation required to abolish the lifetime allowance, completed its House of Commons stages and had its first reading in the Lords on February 6, 2024. It is expected to complete all its Parliamentary stages by February 21, 2024.
Somewhat surprisingly, having said they would reverse the legislation if they won the next General Election, the Labour Party did not oppose the Bill in the House. The Opposition has, however, published a Plan for Financial Services which sets out in general terms only its intentions for an “in-Government pensions and retirement savings 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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