Cross-border Financial Services 2024 webinar series

We're delighted to announce the launch of our third season of international webinars focusing on financial regulation, starting on 13 March 2024.

Whether you are an in-house lawyer, compliance officer, financial analyst, risk manager, or any other professional concerned with maintaining the integrity of your organisation's financial practices, this series offers succinct 20-30 minute overviews of key industry trends and regulatory concerns across multiple jurisdictions.

If you have any additional topics that you would like us to add or address at one of the webinars, please contact us.

Upcoming Webinars:

• 5 June: Preparing for a regulatory visit 
  How the banking regulator assesses a firm’s systems and controls: what to prepare and what to look out for.
• 3 July: Handling a challenging application 
  Your application for a licence, product approval or change in control is meeting with regulatory resistance.  How can you surmount these challenges?
• 31 July: Dawn Raids 
  Unannounced regulator visits are on the increase.  We look at what triggers a dawn raid, your rights if one happens, and how best to manage the consequences.
• 4 September: Navigating the global ESG landscape
  Is the regulatory reporting jigsaw puzzle causing more harm than good? We will provide an overview of the main cross-border issues impacting global financial institutions as they seek to manage ever expanding ESG regulations and discuss whether these rules are helping or hindering the action we need for change.

The language of the webinar will be English.

• Spotting and avoiding red flags 
  What are the warning signals from firms that regulators act on?  How can you spot and address them before the regulator pounces? 
• Handling a regulatory investigation 
  How a firm can understand the regulator’s concerns and manage the investigation process.
• Financial crime 
  Sanctions, money laundering, market abuse and fraud - what are the key issues in your jurisdiction and what are the regulators focusing on.