The State of Financial Crime 2021
Technology, regulation, and the future of financial crime compliance
Legal
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The Secret Luxembourg Base of Italy’s ’Ndrangheta Mafia
The intensely hierarchical and clannish ’Ndrangheta have fanned out across the world from their home base in southern Italy, often using family-based chain migration to get footholds in new markets.
The Cayman Islands: A jurisdiction of choice for family offices
Dart has invested more than US$1.5 billon into the Cayman Islands and the group now employs more than 800 people in the islands across its various businesses.
Five legal and regulatory trends to watch out for in 2021
Mattias Hedwall, head of Baker McKenzie’s global international commercial and trade group, identifies the legal and regulatory themes that will dominate the rest of 2021.
Carey Olsen advises Epiris and James Hay Holdings on Nucleus Financial Group acquisition
Epiris Fund II (Fund II) has owned James Hay since 2019 when it bought the business as part of its acquisition of IFG Group plc.
FCA takes alleged insider dealing brothers to court
The FCA said the brothers had made a profit of about £142,000 from the alleged insider dealing.
The Cape Town Convention five years on
In the five years since the Convention came into force we have advised leasing companies, aircraft owners, lenders and others that use Cayman structures for financing and leasing aircraft on the rights and interests conferred by the Convention and the imp
Employers: can you inoculate against racism?
The Court considered it legitimate to reflect on not only what steps had been taken by the employer but also how effective those steps were likely to be when they were taken and, in appropriate circumstances, how effective they proved to be in practice.
Globally Mobile Employees – UK and EU Social Security Update
The new arrangements for multi-state workers and detached workers posted for up to two years are now in effect.
English High Court considers limits of the extraterritorial reach of the GDPR in relation to an overseas website
To bring a claim under Article 79 of the GDPR, the claimant had to persuade the court that the defendants' processing of the claimant's personal data fell within the territorial scope of the GDPR in either Article 3.
Carey Olsen takes over as leading legal adviser to Jersey funds industry
Confirmation of Carey Olsen as Jersey's leading law firm for investment funds follows 10 years of considerable client growth in the sector, including a 115% increase since 2010 in the number of Jersey serviced funds it provides legal advice to and a
London fights for its financial crown, but it will be a stretch
The EU has long resented the UK’s clout in financial services, and now Brexit has given it a chance to take the Square Mile down a peg