Corporate Law and Governance
What a relief
On 13 August 2019, President Cyril Ramaphosa signed the much-anticipated National Credit Amendment Bill into law (the Amendment Act). The Amendment Act seeks to give greater effect to the overarching objective of the National Credit Act, 2005 (National Credit Act), namely for the promotion of a fair and accessible credit market in South Africa.
Appropriate Dispute Resolution Clauses are vital in Commercial Agreements
Parties that conclude any sort of commercial agreement must consider the mechanism by which any dispute arising under the agreement will be resolved.
FCA Business Plan 2019/20: looking ahead to post-Brexit future of regulation
Unsurprisingly, Brexit remains the immediate priority for the FCA in its recently published Business Plan 2019/20.
Fintech
BLOCKCHAIN AND GDPR – What Can We Learn from the European Parliament’s Recent Study?
Blockchain technology, a form of distributed ledger technology, has come to prominence since the creation of Bitcoin back in 2009.
International
LIBOR and the transition to SONIA: compounding the problem?
In 2012, the Wheatley Review recommended reform rather than replacement of LIBOR, on the basis that a transition to a new benchmark would pose an unacceptably high risk of financial instability.
Regulation and Ethics
IOSCO publishes updates to peer reviews of regulation of MMFs and securitization
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) today published two update reports entitled Update to the IOSCO Peer Review of Regulation of Money Market Funds and Update to the IOSCO Peer Review of Implementation of Incentive Alignment Recommendations for Securitisation.
Tax
Proposed tax amendments for 2019
The National Treasury published the draft Taxation Laws Amendment Bill for comment on 21 July 2019.
