Research Briefing
Financial Services Bill: House of Lords Report & Third Reading stages
A guide to the main amendments agreed to during the Report and Thrid Reading stages of the Financial Services Bill 2012
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Research Briefing
Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative
This note summarises the main features of the extractive industries transparency initiative and outlines the sphere of operations of the UK’s main mining companies.
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Research Briefing
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill: Committee Stage Report
This is a report on the Public Bill Committee Stage of the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill. It is designed to complement the Research Paper Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill (RP 12/33), which covers in more detail the background to the Bill
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Research Briefing
Mental Health (Discrimination) (No 2) Bill
This briefing has been prepared for the Second Reading of the Mental Health (Discrimination) (No 2) Bill on 14 September 2012. The Bill is sponsored by Gavin Barwell MP, who was fourth in the 2012-13 ballot for Private Members’ Bills.
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Research Briefing
Reforming financial markets VIII: implementing the new Basel regulatory capital rules
This is one of a series of notes which looks at actual or proposed reforms of either certain parts of the financial services sector or reforms of certain activities. These notes attempt to describe the progress made on individual issues through these phases. This note focuses upon the standards for prudential capital and liquidity control put forward at various levels of national and international authority.
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Research Briefing
Bank of England (Appointment of Governor) Bill
This Bill would make the appointment of the Governor of the Bank of England dependent upon the approval of the Treasury Select Committee.
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Research Briefing
Financial Services Bill [Bill 278 of 2010-12]
The focus of this Bill is to set up a new framework for financial regulation in the United Kingdom
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Research Briefing
Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill introduces reforms in a number of areas.
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Research Briefing
Reforming Financial Markets: I Hedge Funds
This is one of a series of notes which looks at actual or proposed reforms of either certain parts of the financial services sector or reforms of certain activities in the wake of the fianncial crisis. These notes attempt to describe the progress made on individual issues through these phases. This note focuses upon the regulation of hedge funds by the Alternative Investment Fund Managers directive.
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Research Briefing
Financial Services Bill: Committee Stage & Report Stage (day one) Report.
The focus of this Bill is to establish a new framework for financial regulation in the United Kingdom.
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Research Briefing
Credit Reference Agencies
This note outlines the operation and regulation of credit reference agencies. From April 2014 there will be a new activity of providing credit references that will replace the current activity of operating a credit reference agency. It also looks at the law surrounding the data which the agencies have access to.
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Research Briefing
Community Interest Companies
this document outlines the rules surrounding Community Interest compnaies and charts their growth.
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Research Briefing
Financial Services Bill: Committee Stage Report
The focus of this Bill is to establish a new framework for financial regulation in the United Kingdom.
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Research Briefing
Consumer Insurance (Disclosure and Representations) Bill
This Bill attempts to update, clarify and consolidate existing law and guidance about what insurance companies might reasonably expect their customers to tell them when they apply for insurance.
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Research Briefing
Financial markets: supervisory and structural reform: the Draft Financial Services Bill
Ever since the Northern Rock Bank failed in September 2007, the UK financial regulatory authorities have looked at how they operate and whether changes were needed to the existing system. The deepening crisis in 2008 and 2009 expanded the breadth of this review both in the UK and across the world. It is to be expected that firm proposals for new legislation will be forthcoming this year, following a consultation exercise and the publication of an independent Commission's Report headed by Sir John Vickers. This note sets out some of the background and sets out the broad outlines of current government proposals.
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