The ICLG Guide to Fintech 2022: British Virgin Islands Chapter
Appleby has provided the British Virgin Islands chapter to the International Comparative Legal Guide - Fintech 2022, covering a broad overview of common issues in fintech laws and regulations.
ESG Series Part I: Climate Change – What on Earth is going on?
‘ESG’ has well and truly arrived, and has triggered a new age in business and financial investment strategy. In a four-part part series, Advocate and Partner Anthony Williams and Senior Associate Alex Thornton de Mauroy, of the Appleby Dispute Resolution team in Guernsey, examine what is meant by ESG, how it is measured in terms of data and investment performance, and finally the legal consequences for stakeholders (directors and trustees) in getting it wrong. In the first of this series, we look at ESG with a focus on climate change.
The Cayman Islands restructuring officer regime comes into force on 31 August 2022
These new proceedings will significantly enhance the Cayman Islands restructuring regime.
Agreements to buy land in Bermuda
The law requires that an agreement for sale and purchase of Bermuda land is in writing.
A Norwich Pharmacal order (NPO) is a disclosure order available in the Cayman Islands to compel a third party who has been somehow ‘mixed up’ in wrongdoing to disclose certain information and/or documents to help the applicant identify and/or pursue a potential defendant to future proceedings, whether those proceedings are to take place in the Cayman Islands or overseas.
PIPA’s Implications For IT Service Contracts
Increasingly, businesses in Bermuda rely on the IT and data-processing services of both domestic and overseas providers. The collection and use of personal information is a ubiquitous aspect of those services.
Register of Overseas Entities: A Jersey perspective
The Register of Overseas Entities at Companies House (ROE), as contemplated by the Economic Crime (Transparency and Enforcement) Act 2022 (Act) has now gone live as at 1 August 2022. The land registration elements of the legislation will come into force on 5 September 2022 to give overseas entities sufficient time to complete their registration on the ROE.
Balancing Regulatory and Data Protection Compliance
This article considers data protection compliance in the context of financial services regulatory compliance.
APPLEBY MAURITIUS NEWSLETTER, JULY 2022
There have been interesting developments in our legal landscape since our last issue with the Government’s continued endeavours to further enhance our international financial centre as one of excellence.
Digital Banking - Being future ready
One of the positive aspects of digitalisation is the opportunity which it has offered for financial inclusion.
This article reviews the approach which the Mauritian Supreme Court adopts on the concept of “Concurrence Déloyale” in the employment sector.
The Supreme Court had to address a preliminary objection raised by co-respondents Nos. 1, 2 and 3 on the ground of jurisdiction to contest and challenge the court’s competence to determine the issues and claims set out in the application.