Clifford Chance

UK FSA plays good cop, bad cop on insider trading

The UK Financial Services Authority is taking a hardline approach to insider trading, increasingly carrying out criminal investigations. But at the same time it is asking firms to work with it by providing information to build a bigger picture of what’s…

Environmental exploitation

Recessions usually spell bad news for the environment. Promises of investment in clean energy and sustainable technology wither away as mediocre returns drive investors to count the cost of easing their conscience. But as pension funds and governments…

Legal eagles

Clifford Chance has been ranked number one in the first annual OpRisk & Compliance survey of law firms engaged in risk and compliance activities for financial services firms. But as the results attest, risk and compliance is a hot area for global law…

Regulatory fines moved into legal risk definition

According to a source close to the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision, the concept of legal risk will be explicitly broadened in the final version of the Basel II document, due out at the end of June – to include fines, penalties and punitive damages…

Clifford Chance to advise on weather risk products

International law firm Clifford Chance has created an environmental and climatic trading group, comprised of weather law specialists, to capitalise on the uncertainty surrounding the EU greenhouse gas emissions trading directive. The directive came into…

Regulators' operational risk definitions criticised

The lack of a common agreement on the definition of operational risk by regulators will cause serious problems for global financial institutions, said Joanna Benjamin, a consultant to law firm Clifford Chance, at a late-November seminar at the firm's…

FOA updates end-user derivatives guidelines

UK trade body the Futures and Options Association (FOA) yesterday launched updated guidelines for derivatives end-users, which take into account electronic trading and the past year’s big US corporate failures.

Market alarmed by French securitisation ruling

A proposal by the Commission Bancaire, the French banking regulator, to change the capital risk weighting system on all French securitisations, has caused consternation among market participants. The proposal, introduced in a bulletin on April 26,…

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