Governance Challenges in Cross-Border Financial Services Operations

This webinar forms part of the 2025 Corporate Governance Series.

Description

This webinar will provide insights into the governance challenges faced by financial services firms operating across multiple jurisdictions. Attendees will explore the complexities of managing regulatory compliance, risk oversight, and corporate governance structures in cross-border operations. The session will address issues such as differing legal frameworks, supervisory expectations, and the impact of geopolitical risks on governance practices. Financial services professionals will gain practical strategies for navigating these challenges, including the development of robust governance frameworks, fostering clear communication channels, and ensuring consistent adherence to local and international regulations. This will help firms enhance operational efficiency and maintain regulatory integrity across markets.

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

  • Addressing governance complexities in cross-border operations

  • Key regulatory and cultural challenges faced by financial services boards

  • Strategies to manage multi-jurisdictional compliance requirements

  • Strengthening communication and collaboration among international directors

  • Developing a governance framework for cross-border consistency

 

Presenter

Nicola Higgs

Partner at Latham & Watkins

Nicola Higgs 

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.

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