As a Trust and Estate Practitioner, I need to keep up with the last developments in the field. Recently I've noticed an uptick in cases involving a will dispute. In fact, the latest data from the Ministry of Justice shows 188 will-challenging cases made it to the High Court in 2019, 47% up on 2018.

In this Insurance Institute of London (IIL) financial services webinar, Chantal Constable, Head of London Markets, Growth and Innovation - Insurance, CGI, and Sean Devaney, Vice President, Strategy, Banking, CGI, demystify Open Banking in the UK and identified ‘the good the bad and the ugly’; lessons learned, opportunities created and those that were missed. They will discuss the data used in Open Banking, the standards that enable it as well as participation model and ecosystem development, highlighting the security considerations of a connected network, and the opportunity for the insurance industry to learn from these.

In this Insurance Institute of London (IIL) financial services webinar, Barbara Gardener, Senior Consultant Tax and Trusts, Technical Connection Ltd, and Niki Patel, Tax and Trusts Specialist, Technical Connection Ltd, talked about the challenge that is the extension of the HMRC Trust Registration Service (TRS) to almost all trusts, regardless of any tax liabilities, especially the trusts holding life insurance investment bonds, which until now had little contact with HMRC.

In this Insurance Institute of London (IIL) financial services webinar, Stephen Esho, Director of Cyber Security, Brooks Macdonald Group PLC, explains the scale of the cyber attacks and the ease with which a target can be identified and then compromised. He also covers some simple things that people can do to make themselves a difficult target.