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October 1st, 2007 — General, Legalese, Lenders, Non Zopa, Press, blogs, finance, p2p, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
Simon Gleeson of Clifford Chance has written a very concerning overview of the shortcomings in the Financial Services Authority’s review of how the retail financial services that it regulates are distributed to consumers.
He suggests that the proposed three tiers of advice, coupled with EU-driven changes to the test of what is appropriate, will increase [...]
Continue reading → Regulators should view money the way consumers want to use it
July 19th, 2007 — Legalese, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
“A two-day “blue skies” intensive legal investigation into the world of web 2.0, where lawyers from the UK, US, Europe and Australia can meet entrepeneurs, social scientists and computer scientists working in the same domain.”
A Society for Computers and Law event, hosted by Herbert Smith in London on 17/18 September.
Continue reading → Law 2.0? : New Speech, New Property, New Identity
July 18th, 2007 — General, Legalese, p2p, web 2.0 from Simon DJ @ Zopa
European Commission plans to regulate in order to create cross-border retail and consumer credit markets in the EU are, ironically, only likely to constrain innovation and growth. Facilitating the resolution of the real obstacles would be more helpful.
The European Commission recently announced its decision to propose new EU consumer rules in an attempt to create [...]
Continue reading → Cross-border retail and consumer credit in the EU - please facilitate, don’t regulate