By DS-Concept DS-Concept has provided a $3 million export factoring facility to a trading company that sells metal packaging materials to buyers from the US, Peru, and Chile. The company, based in Shanghai, will use the accelerated cash flow to expand trade with western countries and escalate orders from buyers. The partnership took shape as the client sought to grow its business but was stuck complying to the TT at sight terms popular among Chinese manufacturers in the industry. Consequently, it...

By Vincent Wellens |  Jacqueline van Essen |Heidi Waem | NautaDutilh Ransomwares and other kind of malwares are waiting the first weakness of your IT systems to attack. Nearly every week, a new data breach is mentioned in the press, tarnishing the affected company's reputation. The GDPR requires data controllers to notify such personal data breach to the competent data protection authority and, as the case may be, to the data subjects. The Article 29 Working Party (WP 29) has published draft...

By ING ING Groep N.V. notes the announcements made today by the European Banking Authority and De Nederlandsche Bank regarding the information of the 2017 EU-wide Transparency Exercise and fulfilment of the EBA Board of Supervisors' decision. The outcome of the exercise related to ING Group can be found in the annexes on the EBA website. Background 2017 EU-wide Transparency Exercise At its meeting in May 2017, the EBA Board of Supervisors approved the package for the 2017 EU-wide Transparency Exercise, which since...

By Alexandra Pygall | Partner| Stephenson Harwood LLP We are pleased to announce that regulatory lawyer Cliodhna McDonough has recently joined our London office as a full-time consultant, strengthening our life sciences and consumer practices.   McDonough, dual qualified as both a clinical dietitian and a regulatory lawyer, brings more than 10 years of experience across the life sciences, food and drink, and cosmetic sectors. She has considerable clinical experience and was a member of the Government State Board of Ireland’s...

By Invest in Switzerland Top of the News Aurora Flight Sciences and Roivant Sciences received 2017 Tell Awards honoring their significant inward investment projects in Switzerland. The awards, named for legendary Swiss hero William Tell, were presented on September 26 by André Schaller, Ambassador and Consul General of Switzerland in New York at the "2017 Inspiring Innovation Conference" hosted by Bloomberg LLP. Initiated in 2004, Tell Awards have been presented to a total of 45 companies in a program supported by...

By Lincoln International Lincoln International is pleased to present our Logistics & Transportation Market Update. This quarterly publication focuses on public market valuation information, selected transactions and events of interest to owners and managers of Logistics & Transportation businesses and their advisors. Topics covered in this issue include: Logistics & Transportation Stock Indices, Performance and Stock Data Recap of Recent Logistics & Transportation Transactions Key Market Intelligence Please click here to download the Q3 2017 Logistics & Transportation Market Update from Lincoln...

By Yves Van Couter  | Stéphanie De Smedt | Loyens & Loeff As part of its Digital Single Market strategy, the European Commission published on 13 September 2017 a proposal for a Regulation “on a framework for the free flow of non-personal data in the European Union”. Why a Regulation governing “non-personal” data? To make sure that it is safe for businesses to store data anywhere in the EU; To eliminate barriers to trade and to enable a ‘EU data community’; To...

By ING Group ING Wholesale Banking today announced a number of initiatives aimed at further enhancing client centricity, addressing clients' daily challenges and their strategic needs. The international network, currently spanning more than 40 countries will be strengthened, as we put more resources into Asia and the Americas. We are also investing in our advisory functions including core banking services such as the Debt Capital Markets and Corporate Finance franchises. "ING Wholesale Banking is an important contributor to the success...