The Linklaters Podcast

Speakers: Leanne Banfield, Ruhi Patil

In the first episode, Tranche Up hosts Leanne Banfield and Ruhi Patil introduce DSP’s first SRT podcast focused on regulatory and market developments in the synthetic securitisations space and offer a glimpse into what listeners can expect from upcoming episodes.

To listen to the full series, visit our Tranche Up webpage.

Speakers: Leanne Banfield, Ruhi Patil, Jennifer Bearden

In the second episode of Tranche Up, we welcome Jennifer Bearden from IACPM to the podcast. Along with Jennifer, we discuss regulatory changes and market trends in the EU, UK and the US markets relating to synthetic securitisations and explore topics that market participants are most likely to focus on in the near future.

To listen to the full series, visit our Tranche Up webpage.

Wenying Li and Ian Rodwell

Anyone working in global organisations, or with clients, suppliers and partners around the world, will know about the challenges and rewards of operating across different cultures. In this episode, we discuss why cross-cultural competence is important and how it can help you in your career. We also explore the key research on cultural dimensions and leave you with some practical ideas that you can immediately put to work.

Key sources for this episode include:

• Erin Meyer – The culture map: breaking through the invisible boundaries of global business

Clare McMullen, Rebecca Heaysman and Simon Treacy share some feedback from the FCA on firms’ readiness for the UK operational resilience rules.

Clare McMullen, Partner: “You have to remember that the first time the regulator picks up this self-assessment document could be in the wake of an incident.”

In our tenth episode, Alison Saunders is joined by Erez Liebermann, Richard Smith and Adam Lurie where they discuss how to respond to a cyber-attack and what compliance and litigation risks you may face when dealing with a cyber-attack.

Nicola Raw and Ian Rodwell

Is your phone the first and last thing you check every day? Do you find yourself constantly reaching for your phone, or worse still, feel uncomfortable when you’re without it? If so, this is the episode for you. Join us as we explore what digital wellbeing is and why it is so crucial to both our work and non-work lives. We delve into the effects of social media on our cognitive processing and look at some practical ways to ensure we are in control of our devices — and not the other way around.

Key sources for this episode include:

• Matthew Walker – Why We Sleep

The FCA wants more powers to regulate the conduct of individuals working in the payments sector. In this episode, Nik Kiri, Jean Price and Simon Treacy look at the FCA’s individual accountability regime – the SMCR – and predict how it could be applied to payments and e-money firms.

In this podcast episode we discuss implications for asset managers of the FCA's second consultation paper on its proposed new consumer duty, including its scope, interaction with existing Principles, application throughout the distribution chain, monitoring and testing, and steps that asset managers can take now to prepare. 

This episode features Raza Naeem and Sara Cody (counsel, financial regulation, London). It complements our podcast episode on the implications of the second consultation paper for all firms.

Visit our consumer duty webpage for all our resources on the proposed consumer duty.

In this podcast episode we discuss the FCA's second consultation paper on its proposed new consumer duty. What's changed between the first and second consultation? What questions does the second consultation paper answer? And what steps can you take to prepare?

This episode features Gavin Lewis (partner, dispute resolution, London) and Sara Cody (counsel, financial regulation, London).

Visit our consumer duty webpage for all our resources on the proposed consumer duty.

In the ninth episode, Sarina Williams and Jason Shardlow-Wrest are joined by Iona McCall from AlixPartners to discuss the role of “pass-on” in competition damages claims.