Governance Challenges in Cross-Border Financial Services Operations
This webinar forms part of the 2025 Corporate Governance Series.
Description
This webinar examines governance challenges in cross border financial services operations, focusing on the tension between global and local regulatory expectations. It explores how firms manage significant influence at group level while navigating fragmented governance frameworks. The session also considers the extent to which global regulators effectively coordinate supervision, and highlights real world examples where authorities have intervened in governance failures, offering lessons for firms operating across multiple jurisdictions.
This webinar provides one-hour of CPD and offers insights and updates from a leading industry-expert speaker.
Delegates places are interchangeable with colleagues from the same organisation.
Content
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Global v local governance expectations
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Managing group level significant influence
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Ability of global regulators to coordinate supervisory efforts
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Test cases – when have regulators intervened in governance?
Presenter
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Nicola Higgs Partner at Latham & Watkins |
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Nicola Higgs is a partner in the London office of Latham & Watkins and Global Co-Chair of the firm's Financial Institutions Industry Group. She specializes in financial services regulatory advice and has vast experience advising financial institutions and market infrastructure providers on a wide range of complex domestic and cross-border regulatory issues. Nicola advises global investment banks, corporate finance houses, fund managers, insurers, stockbrokers, market infrastructure, and data services providers on a variety of legal and regulatory risk management matters, with particular expertise in the FCA’s Conduct of Business Rules, European regulatory developments, such as MiFID II, PRIIPs KID Regulation, and the EU Benchmark Regulation, and contested enforcement actions. She has developed a formidable reputation advising global investment firms on the sale of complex derivative products to professional and retail investors, including cross-border issues. Nicola also has a strong track record in advising private banks and wealth managers on their regulatory obligations. |