Joomla! site syndication http://www.fsla.org.uk 2008-12-01T22:23:33+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/images/M_images/joomla_rss.png text/html 2008-09-21T23:49:31+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/content/view/60/15/ The Financial Services Lawyers Association exists to: provide a forum for open exchanges of views on topical issues in financial services law, regulation and related areas facilitate the dissemination of knowledge and ideas further members' education and training encourage the involvement of students, graduates, trainees, pupils and junior lawyers foster co-operation between the various financial services stakeholders, including practitioners, academics, industry, regulators and government. text/html 2008-07-22T18:28:55+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/content/view/58/15/ FSLA has seen a steady flow of corporate membership applications in recent months including from in-house lawyers at financial services firms such Merrill Lynch and Dresdner Kleinwort IB. Existing corporate members include law firms, chambers, banks, insurance firms and other firms in the regulated sector. For a full list of corporate members (index.php?option=com_content task=view id=36 Itemid=85) see the list under 'members'. To find out more about how to become corporate members see the 'corporate membership' (index.php?option=com_forme fid=2 Itemid=59) section. text/html 2008-07-22T17:37:25+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/content/view/56/15/ Mark Harding, Group General Counsel at Barclays, has joined the Advisory Board of FSLA. As group GC Harding has responsibilities which cover retail, commercial and investment banking at Barclays. Before joining Barclays in the Summer of 2003 Harding was a senior partner at Clifford Chance and had spent a period in house at UBS. Harding joins Simon Dodds of Deutsche Bank and Brad Gans of Citi on the Advisory Board. text/html 2008-03-19T12:00:00+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/content/view/53/15/ We recently published our March newsletter (component/option,com_acajoom/act,mailing/task,view/listid,1/mailingid,17/), updating members on our plans for the next few months. These include our AGM on 20 May which will include presentations from the head lawyers/General Counsel from the Treasury (Stephen Parker), Bank of England (Dame Juliet Wheldon) and FSA (Andrew Whittaker). text/html 2008-03-19T13:00:00+01:00 http://www.fsla.org.uk http://www.fsla.org.uk/content/view/52/15/ We are delighted to announce the winners of our inaugural essay competition which asked 'Bank charges: Are they fair?'.