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Australia’s new mandatory merger control regime
Mergers or acquisitions that meet certain turnover thresholds will shortly be required to be notified to the ACCC.
Launch of Capital Markets Union (CMU) technical resource
Global | Publication | December 2015
Raising finance in Europe is changing. Our online technical resource ‘Capital Markets Union’ (CMU) is a complete client guide to the legal and practical measures that fall under the umbrella of the CMU.
The European Commission’s CMU initiative aims to unify capital markets across Europe’s 28 Member States in an effort to promote growth and investment. From now through 2019, the Commission will release a series of regulations and studies affecting every area of capital markets.
CMU will affect clients across the global with business interests in the European Union, including banks, funds, insurers, pensions, infrastructure projects, SMEs, credit rating agencies and multilateral development agencies.
The following resources will be updated as the CMU project develops:
- Prospectus Regulation proposal
- Private placements
- Venture capital
- SME finance
- Crowdfunding.
- Securitisation Regulation proposal
- STS securitisation practical guide
- Securitisation – risk retention Q&A
- Solvency II recalibration
- Infrastructure funds
- Non-bank lending
- Pensions
- Retail finance.
- Regulation of financial services
- Covered bonds
- Investment funds
- Derivatives, repos and securities lending
- Cross-border finance.
Recent publications
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Financial services monthly wrap-up: March 2025
March 2025 was a busy month in the financial services space with the release of the draft bill on the second tranche of the ‘Delivering Better Financial Outcomes’ reform concerning advice provided through superannuation and client advice records.
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