Europe: Finance and Banking

Macfarlanes offers a distinctive approach to serving private capital managers by integrating top-tier legal expertise with complementary non-legal services. This combination creates a comprehensive solution designed specifically for the unique needs of private capital firms.

A new regulatory Order due to come into effect this month marks a significant and welcome step in a series of changes aimed at streamlining Jersey’s legislative framework, according to Jersey Finance.

Jurisdictional choice has always mattered in fund structuring. What has changed is why it matters. In today’s more fragmented and uncertain economic environment, jurisdiction is no longer simply a technical or operational decision. It has become a core risk allocation choice. Fund managers are increasingly asking not only what works today but what will stand up in five years’ time, to investors, boards and regulators.

The UK government has announced significant reforms to the Consumer Credit Act 1974, scrapping the phase two consultation and moving forward with changes that will remove automatic unenforceability sanctions while shifting many prescriptive requirements from statute to FCA rules.

You'll find the answer to this question in a recent episode of ‘The Long-Short' podcast, produced by the Alternative Investment Management Association (AIMA), featuring Jersey Finance's Head of Funds, Elliot Refson.

Access an article by Philip Pirecki, Americas Lead for Jersey Finance, who provides an interesting slant on tokenisation.

Ebony Alleyne examines the LEG 3 defects exclusion clause in Construction All Risks insurance, revealing how its complex wording creates uncertainty in major African infrastructure projects.

The post-War geopolitical order no longer appears orderly or certain. The underpinnings of US hegemony and the stability provided by multilateral institutions such as the UN and NATO all seem less solid.

As investment across the mining, energy and infrastructure sectors in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) continues togrow, the core question for sponsors, lenders and development finance institutions has evolved.

Ireland's EU Council Presidency has unveiled an ambitious programme centred on three interconnected priorities: competitiveness, values, and security. The agenda spans critical legislative files across financial services, technology, energy, and industrial policy, while positioning simplification and resilience as cross-cutting themes that will shape policy choices across all Council formations.

Amendments to the EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR), made by the EU Listing Act (2024/2809), take effect on 5 June 2026. The amendments relate to when inside information has to be disclosed where there are intermediate steps in a protracted process.

Issuances Approved by the Capital Markets Board of Türkiye – May 2026