Two recent speeches delivered by the UK’s financial services regulator, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), shed light on how the FCA wants to be perceived when it comes to the regulation of fintech and digital assets...more
Earlier this year, the High Court of England and Wales held in MUR Shipping BV v RTI Ltd that an obligation to undertake ‘reasonable endeavours’ to overcome a force majeure event did not require the claimant to accept...more
The Court of Appeal of England and Wales in Soleymani v Nifty Gateway LLC has set aside a stay to allow the English court to determine the validity of an arbitration clause contained in a contract between an English consumer...more
On 27 September 2022, the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) announced that it had imposed a £30,000 penalty against a UK registered company for contravention of the Ukraine (European Union Financial...more