The United Kingdom government on Thursday (Oct. 13) passed the Electronic Trade Documents Bill in parliament, ending the legal requirement for certain business documents, such as bills of exchange, promissory notes, warehouse receipts, and marine and cargo insurance certificates, to be printed on paper. Learn...
In the U.K. political system, all-party parliamentary groups (APPG) consist of multi-partisan collaborative panels that bring together members of both houses to investigate important issues from a policymaking perspective. One of these groups, the APPG for Challenger Banks and Building Societies (the APPG), on Wednesday...
It wound up being no deal for a no-deal Brexit. As widely reported this week, the U.K. Parliament gave a thumbs down, on Tuesday (March 12), to a Brexit-with-a-deal, which Prime Minister Theresa May helped negotiate with the European Union (EU). A second “no” said...
The U.K. Parliament could release confidential documents on Facebook that it seized, as soon as this week, as the pressure on the social media’s executives mounts in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica scandal. According to a report in the Financial Times (FT), citing Damian Collins, chair...
June 22, 2023
British banks are reportedly testing ways to share data to prevent money laundering and terrorism financing. Six or more banks are preparing to participate in two pilot programs that may be launched in October if an economic crime and corporate transparency bill becomes law, Reuters reported Wednesday (June 21), citing unnamed sources. In one pilot, […]
March 14, 2019
It wound up being no deal for a no-deal Brexit. As widely reported this week, the U.K. Parliament gave a thumbs down, on Tuesday (March 12), to a Brexit-with-a-deal, which...
November 26, 2018
The U.K. Parliament could release confidential documents on Facebook that it seized, as soon as this week, as the pressure on the social media’s executives mounts in the wake of the...
