Financial Regulation International

The Crime and Courts Act 2013 has just received Royal Assent. The commercial and financial sector was keen to see the outcome of the debate on Deferred Prosecution Agreements (DPAs). A proposal to introduce them into UK law had been inserted in the..

Introduction‘A complex financial world will be made less fragile only by simplicity of regulation and strength of enforcement’.[1] These are the words of Niall Ferguson, from one of the Reith Lectures he gave for BBC Radio 4 in 2012. The..

IntroductionIssues relating to bonds, guarantees, counter-guarantees, performance bonds or on-demand bonds, and obligations arising under each of these instruments for the parties concerned have been brought before the English courts for a..