On April 19, the European Parliament (EP) published a press release announcing its adoption of a proposal for a fifth Anti-Money Laundering Directive (MLD5). The introduction of MLD5 forms part of the European Commission’s action plan to counter terrorist financing and money laundering, published in February 2016 (further details are available in the Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest edition of February 12, 2016).
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FCA and ICO Publish Joint Update on GDPR
Posted in Financial Markets, UK Developments
On February 8, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published a joint statement on the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
GDPR will go into effect in the UK on May 25. The GDPR is designed to strengthen the rules governing data protection across the European Union and will be regulated and enforced in the UK by the ICO, as part of its continuing mandate for the responsibility of data protection regulation.
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Implementation of MiFID II Still Incomplete Across Europe
By Neil Robson on
Further updating the Corporate &Financial Weekly Digest edition of December 8, 2017, as of January 8, there were still only 14 European Union (EU) Member States (i.e., only 50 percent of the EU) that have fully transposed the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) into their national law (as reported on the European Commission’s (EC) MiFID II Transposition Status Webpage).
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Many EU Countries Have Not Yet Adopted MiFID II
Posted in EU Developments, Financial Markets
On December 5, Valdis Dombrovskis, the vice-president of the European Commission (EC), recognized that most European Union (EU) Member States have not yet fully adopted the provisions set out under the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II). In a public session of a meeting of EU finance ministers in Brussels, Mr. Dombrovskis urged Member States to adapt national legislation before the rules go into effect on January 3, 2018.
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