The Corporate Governance Committee, chaired by Sir Adrian Cadbury, was set up in May 1991 by the Financial Reporting Council, the Stock Exchange and the accountancy profession in response to continuing concern about standards of financial reporting and accountability, particularly in light of the BC

Justin O'Brien of the CLMR at the University of New South Wales discusses how the interlinked corporate regulatory and political failures in Ireland has produced a seismic shift in the political landscape.

The Financial Services Authority has released a discussion paper setting out its regulatory proposals to address the issues raised by the Turner Review of global banking regulation.

The feedback statement confirms the Financial Services Authority's proposed approach, summarises responses to the discussion paper, considers where its product intervention initiatives will sit with other relevant work in the UK and at EU level, and gives some indication of the FSA's expec

The Financial Services Authority's Product Intervention Discussion Paper DP11/01 proposed that retail financial services regulation should move away from its primary focus on point-of-sale, to an approach that actively regulates all aspects of the product life cycle, including the design, devel

In CP 11/27 the Financial Services Authority invites comments on miscellaneous amendments to the FSA Handbook.

The revised Consumer Protection Code, which comes into effect from 1 January 2012 for regulated entities, increases the protections for consumers in a number of key areas including: arrears handling, contact with consumers, mis-selling of products, vulnerable consumers, mortgage lending, transparenc

The Central Bank of Ireland has published revised guidance in relation to its new fitness and probity regime, which addresses issues raised in the consultation process, and in particular, addresses issues related to outsourcing.

The Central Bank of Ireland has launched a new risk-based supervision framework, PRISM (Probability Risk and Impact SysteM) over regulated firms.

The Financial Services Authority has published its Board’s Report on “The Failure of the Royal Bank of Scotland” which describes the errors of judgement and execution made by Royal Bank of Scotland executive management which resulted in its failure.