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ACC Ontario x Blakes National Regulatory Insights

With constantly evolving regulations over the past year, doing business in the financial services industry has become increasingly tricky to navigate. Join us for the need-to-know highlights and get your questions answered by our Blakes team and in-house counsel, Sandy Stephens, VP & Chief Compliance Officer at Alterna Bank. 

These sessions will be short, lunch time discussions of the latest regulatory updates, with short question and answer periods. Please feel free to register for any or all that would be relevant to you. 

Regulatory round up, Part 1: 

Retail Payments Activity Act (RPAA) 

  • Overview of requirements / impact of changes  
  • Update on status and next steps  

Buy-now-pay-later (BNPL) products 

  • What is it? / Is there regulation? 
  • Usage / prevalence / concerns 

High-cost credit regulations 

  • Overview of existing frameworks/requirements  
  • Is more regulation coming? 

 

Please join us for an evening of music, food and beverages, plus a special Q&A session featuring insights and perspectives from corporate counsel on key issues and topics of interest to both inhouse counsel and those in the financial services sector.

Andrew Turner (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

This article briefly discusses the necessity for lawyers to have an appropriate level of financial and accounting knowledge in order to understand and articulate financial principles.

This resource was originally published on the website of Eversheds Sutherland on September 13, 2023.

Trevor Dolan (Eversheds Sutherland)
19 pages

This article explains the ins and outs of investment funds in Ireland.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Financial Services
Region: Ireland
Richard Jones, Trevor Dolan, Ruth Fairhurst, Sian Cosgrove (Eversheds Sutherland)
7 pages

This article provides a summary of the European Commission’s key proposals under a third Payment Services Directive (PSD3), the EU Payment Services Regulation (PSR) and the EU open finance regime.

Charles Butcher, Jack Cai, Dickson Ng, and Gabrielle Honey (Eversheds Sutherland)
16 pages

This guide provides an overview of the environmental, social and governance (ESG) disclosure obligations within the Asia Pacific (APAC) region.

Resource Details
Region: Global, Australia, Bangladesh, China, India, Indonesia, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Vietnam, Philippines
Tyron Fourie (Eversheds Sutherland)
2 pages

The article provides a brief overview of open finance, a practice that allows third party service providers access to consumers’ financial data from banks and financial institutions using secure application programming interfaces (APIs).

Global Legal Group
154 pages

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding corporate tax across a range of jurisdictions.

Some topics covered include the macro-economic factors caused by the war in Ukraine, the associated global inflation, and the remaining pressure on the capacity of tax administrations.

Resource Details
Interest Area: Financial Services
Region: Global, Andorra, Australia, Brazil, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Japan, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom, United States
Global Legal Group
333 pages

In this multi-jurisdictional guide, explore an overview of key legal issues, rules and developments regarding fintech across a range of jurisdictions.

Resource Details
Region: Global, Australia, Bahamas, Brazil, British Virgin Isles, Canada, China, Colombia, Denmark, Egypt, Estonia, France, Germany, Gibraltar, Greece, Hong Kong, India, Indonesia, Ireland, Isle of Man, Italy, Japan, South Korea, Malaysia, Malta, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Norway, Philippines, Portugal, Romania, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Taiwan, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom, United States
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