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“AI and sustainability - cure or curse?”
While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
Global | Publication | April 2018
The increasing divergence between the law in England and that in Wales is easy to overlook but worth having on the radar.
On the planning front, the Planning (Wales) Act 2015 made changes to planning law as it applies to Wales, with further changes afoot.
Two significant pieces of legislation passed by the National Assembly for Wales relate to residential tenancy law and regulation:
More recently, the Land Transaction Tax and Anti-avoidance of Devolved Taxes (Wales) Act 2017 introduced a new land transaction tax (LTT) that replaced SDLT in Wales at the beginning of this month. LTT is collected by a new Welsh Revenue Authority (WRA).
LTT has a similar basic structure to SDLT and preserves key features such as a marginal tax rate structure, so that the relevant tax rate only applies to the proportion of the property value that falls within a particular band. However there are numerous differences and not just to the tax rates themselves.
One thing is certain – these divergences are just the start ...
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While AI can help resolve data issues in sustainable investing, it can create problems such as information breaches and inherent bias in data.
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In this edition of Regulation Around the World we review recent steps that financial services regulatory authorities have taken as regards investment research.
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We have had a new pension tax regime since April 6, 2024. The underlying legislation is convoluted and almost impossible for a lay person to follow, so you would be forgiven for thinking there was a lot to study. At the very granular level that is true, and your scheme administrators will have a lot of detailed changes to make to systems. However if you zoom out a bit, in many ways life hasn’t changed. We’ve done the poring over densely amended tax legislation for you. Here are the highlights: five things to know and three things to do.
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