Prudential Assurance Company Ltd (Prudential) and Rothesay Life plc (Rothesay) successfully overturned the English High Court's refusal to sanction the proposed transfer of a portfolio of annuities from Prudential to Rothesay.

On 8 December 2020, the Government published its first "Action Plan for Insurance Reform" in Ireland (the Action Plan). The publication of the Action Plan reinforces the Government's emphasis on insurance reform in its "Programme for Government – Our Share Future" (the Programme for Government) published in June 2020.

While it may seem that we have been talking about the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) since the beginning of time, DORA’s application date finally arrived on Friday, 17 January 2025.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) has published its final guidelines on funds’ names using ESG or sustainability-related terms (the “Guidelines”).

In the February edition we looked at: ESMA, individual accountability, T+1 Settlement cycle

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On 14 November 2022, the Central Bank of Ireland (the ‘CBI’) published an information note ‘Sustainable finance and the asset management sector: Disclosures, investment processes & risk management’ (the ‘Note’).

Provisions strengthening the powers of Ireland’s corporate watchdog, the Corporate Enforcement Authority (CEA), contained in the Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Act 2024 (2024 Act), came into operation on 3 December 2024.

The Government Legislation Programme for Spring 2024 includes a Companies (Corporate Governance, Enforcement and Regulatory Provisions) Bill that would be designed to enhance and strengthen enforcement and regulatory provisions in the Companies Act 2014 (the “2014 Act”).