The Linklaters Podcast

Episode 2: R&I Soundbites In this podcast, our Partner Nick Le Masurirer, Managing Associate, Dionne Brown and Associate Hannah Barrett Brown, consider the key features of Part 26A restructuring plans.  

Episode 2: The FCA’s Consumer Duty In this podcast episode we review the various mechanisms for consumers to obtain redress from financial services firms. We assess how the FCA’s proposal to extend the private right of action to cover Principle breaches (including any new Consumer Principle) might fit within the current framework. Crucially, will this achieve the FCA’s aim of securing a higher lev...

Episode 4: Antitrust and Funds The fifth and final episode in our funds and financial sponsors antitrust and foreign investment podcast mini-series focuses on recent developments in Asia, with a deep dive into VIE structures, increased enforcement of SAMR in the tech sector and the more proactive approach taken by regulators across the region. In this episode, Anna Mitchell, Xi Liao and Marcus Pol...

Episode 6: Operational Resilience Florian Reul, Kathrin Hafner and Simon Treacy discuss the EU’s draft Digital Operational Resilience Act, known as DORA. Florian Reul, Managing Associate: “DORA is providing a game plan on how to become better at addressing ICT risks.”

Episode 4: Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing In this podcast episode we discuss how German financial services regulation and supervision addresses non-financial misconduct.  We examine the grounds on which a senior individual might be removed from role for non-financial misconduct or failing to control the risk of non-financial misconduct in their organisations. We also cover German whis...

Episode 5: Operational Resilience Pansy Wong, Rebecca Heaysman and Simon Treacy examine important business services and how to identify them. Pansy Wong, Partner: “In our experience there’s a feedback loop, so once you work through the other operational resilience obligations you may find yourself revisiting your approach to how you identified those important business services in the first place.”

Episode 19: Payments Monthly The FCA has told e-money firms to explain to their customers how their money is protected. In this month’s payments podcast, Harry Eddis, Jean Price, Paul Harris and Simon Treacy talk about the impact these communications will have, plus financial promotions and the FCA’s plans for a consumer duty of care.

Episode 6: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector Freezing awards at any time before vesting time is a sort of half-way house to malus. Why and how to do it. And to conclude, some top tips

Episode 5: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector Applying malus and clawback: when; what for - the trigger events; how - the process to follow, and on which awards?

Episode 4: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector The tricky topic of exercising discretion: what the courts are looking at and avoiding the potential pitfalls.

Episode 3: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector Alternative methods of risk adjustment: restricted shares and overriding formulaic outcomes, and participants’ likely reactions.

Episode 2: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector An increasing focus of how the regulatory regimes are applied in practice, relates to adjustment for financial and non-financial risks. How is this done and what is spilling over into the PLC sphere.

Episode 1: Risk and pay: lessons from the financial sector A brief look at the regulatory regimes in the financial sector: where they come from and what they say, to provide some context for episodes which follow.

Episode 5: Governing pay: how did we get here and where next? What’s in store for corporate governance and remuneration following the government’s recent executive pay proposals in the White Paper on audit reform.

Episode 4: Governing pay: how did we get here and where next? Another current “hot topic” in the corporate governance landscape and integrating environmental, social and governance factors into pay decision-making processes.

Episode 3: Governing pay: how did we get here and where next? A detailed look at four distinct governance areas with developing impact on executive pay: pay ratio disclosure, pension contributions, malus and clawback and post-employment shareholding requirements.

Episode 2: Governing pay: how did we get here and where next? Continuing to look at the developments that have impacted remuneration disclosures, this time what’s happening on corporate governance for large private companies.

Episode 1: Governing Pay how did we get here and where next? The most recent legislative changes affecting remuneration disclosures, investor expectations on compliance with corporate governance requirements in determining pay, and the impact of Covid-19.

Episode 3: Non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing In this podcast episode, we discuss US legal and regulatory approaches to non-financial misconduct and whistleblowing in financial services. We look at some examples of the ways that US regulators have been addressing non-financial misconduct, starting with FINRA at the Federal level and outlining the relevance of Federal employment law and re...

Episode 1: The FCA’s Consumer Duty Dispute resolution partner Alison Wilson and financial regulation counsel Sara Cody discuss the FCA's recent consultation on the introduction of a "consumer duty" in financial services. We give an overview of the proposals and consider their key aspects, and give some thought to the practical implications for firms. For more details, see our infographic .

Episode 6: Global Business Crime Outlook In this sixth episode hosted by  Sara Trainor ,  Elly Proudlock  and  Jane Larner  discuss how recent failures to secure convictions of individuals for corporate wrongdoing may impact on the long term success of the DPA process.

Episode 4: Antitrust and Funds The fourth episode in our funds and financial sponsors antitrust and foreign investment podcast focuses on the impact of Covid-19 on Private Equity M&A, with a particular focus on merger control and foreign investment filing requirements in the UK and the EU. In this episode,  Anna Mitchell ,  Nick Peristerakis  and  Jennifer Willis  from our Antitrust & Foreign Inve...

Episode 3: Antitrust and Funds The third episode in our funds and financial sponsors antitrust and foreign investment podcast focuses on how Joe Biden’s new administration will shape US antitrust enforcement and foreign investment control in the coming years. In this episode, London AFIG Partner Anna Mitchell is joined by Antonia Sherman and Jon Gafni from our US AFIG team and Karolis Pocius from...

Episode 4: IBOR Soundbites In this podcast, our Partner Danelle le Cren and Counsel Philip Lee discuss the LIBOR transition in the US loan markets.

Episode 3: IBOR Soundbites In this podcast, our Partners Kathryn Merryfield and Mees Roelofs explore the possible future of EURIBOR and the transition to risk-free rate loans.