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Negotiating Global Contracts: Balancing Legal Risk and Commerciality
Financial organisations have a far wider reach in today's business environment as the scale and scope of their customer base expands beyond local and regional borders. Accordingly in-house lawyers, as...Read more
Shola Mos-Shogbamimu
Assistant General Counsel, JP Morgan, UK
PSD II: Modernizing the EU Payment Services Landscape Through Effective Competition and Consumer Protection
On July 24, 2013, the European Commission (“the Commission”) issued a legislative proposal to update the existing Payments Services Directive (“PSD I”), which has been in force since 2007. The...Read more
Orestis Omran
Counsel, Dentons, Belgium
Emmanouela Nikolakopoulou
Associate Legal Counsel, Swift, Belgium
A Comparative Analysis of Albanian Banking Privacy Legislation
Legislation on the protection of banking information (banking secrecy) was established in Albania in early 1990. The rationale behind this legal framework was motivated by economic factors, i.e. the flow...Read more
On the Road to Recovery: Victims of the Madoff Fraud
In 2008, triggered by the financial crisis, two financial companies fell from power and grace, and were placed in liquidation under the Securities Investor Protection Act (“SIPA”). The failure of...Read more
Josephine Wang
General Counsel, Securities Investor Protection Corp., USA
Expanding the Frontiers of Electronic Financial Transactions;
But Can Regulations Keep Up?
Nearly every week in the past several months, multifaceted debates over new concepts in high frequency trading (HFT) of various instruments have emerged rapidly. HFT firms are developing new technology...Read more
Chaim Levin
Chief Legal Officer, Compagnie Financiere Tradition, USA
Public Enemy Number One: The Current Standing of Banks in the United States
Since the financial meltdown of 2008, highlighted by the Lehman Brothers collapse on September 15, the standing of banks in the United States has declined precipitously, with no current prospects...Read more
Bruce Ortwine
External Advisor, Global Legal and Compliance, Sumitomo Mitsui Trust Group, Inc.; Adjunct Professor of Law, Rutgers University School of Law, n/a, USA
Electronic Money: Special Aspects of Legal Regulation in Russia
The regulatory sphere of electronic money rose in 2011 by adoption of the Federal Law ? 161-FZ of June 27, 2011 “On the national payment system” (hereinafter referred to as...Read more
Valeria Steblyuk
Senior Lawyer of Legal Department, Commercial Bank “Garanti Bank - Moscow” (ZAO), Russian Federation
Application of EU Labour acquis Principles in Albanian Employment Contracts
The article shall provide a thorough analysis of the employment contract in comparing EU law and Albanian private law. It argues that many concepts of EU employment contract law have...Read more
Multilateral Interchange Fees Capping a Good Idea?
Consumers and shoppers in general, are increasingly using credit and debit cards to make payments for goods and services, leveraging the significant technical developments and breakthroughs in the field of...Read more
Sancho Guibert
Associate General Counsel, Citibank, Spain
The Hybrid Financial Instruments in Italy: A First Attempt to Define this Category
In the Italian market – as well as in the European and international market – a new type of financial instrument has been often mentioned and used by financial and...Read more
Ferdinando Bruno
Head of Italian Restructuring , UniCredit Bank AG, Milan Branch, (UniCredit Group), Italy