13 Dec, 2023 Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2024 By Rakhee Pattani Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2024 explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset Management and...
12 Oct, 2024 ECJ ruling simplifies intra-group reorganisations of regulated banks By Marius Raetz Julian Emmerich When directly or indirectly acquiring 10% or more of the voting rights or capital of a credit institution, potential acquirers must...
10 Oct, 2024 Significant Court of Appeal judgment on FCA's redress powers By Nikunj Kiri Sara Cody Duncan Campbell The Court of Appeal has published its much anticipated judgment in the BlueCrest v FCA case. For the details, read our briefing note. By...
08 Oct, 2024 FCA announces advice market consolidation review and other key priorities in dear CEO letter By Premlata Fagan It has been a while since the FCA last looked in detail at consolidation, but a Dear CEO letter sent to financial advisers and investment...
07 Oct, 2024 Overseas Funds Regime - User Guide By Premlata Fagan In July 2024, the FCA published Policy Statement PS24/7, which included its final rules on the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) ahead of the...
25 Sep, 2024 Look out! FCA Enforcement "green shoots" incoming By Duncan Campbell Here's the tl;dr of Therese Chambers' speech to an AFME conference on 24 September plus the answers to questions she fielded afterwards. ...
25 Sep, 2024 Payments firms face stricter safeguarding standards By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Arjun Lakhani Olivia Murphy Sam Quicke Bethan Poole Simon Treacy +5 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority has set out its stall to strengthen safeguarding rules for payments and e-money firms. Firms will need to...
20 Sep, 2024 Segmentation, vulnerability and blurred lines: the FCA's latest Consumer Duty value messaging By Duncan Campbell The FCA is forming some pretty pointed concerns about firms' value assessments. It has observed that many firms have found them...
19 Sep, 2024 UK plots post-PRIIPs policy By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The Government and Financial Conduct Authority plan to put in place the UK’s new retail disclosure regime by summer 2025. According to a...
17 Sep, 2024 Big moves in the FCA's annual interventions and enforcement data By Duncan Campbell The FCA's annual report and metrics are out. The metrics contain most of what's useful, but as usual the message is hidden in the detail...
16 Sep, 2024 Navigating the FCA's Overseas Funds Regime By Premlata Fagan Raza Naeem Elliot Jack With the FCA’s Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) for non-UK funds to be recognised by the FCA and sold to UK retail investors having now been...
05 Sep, 2024 More FCA retail enforcement incoming (if the latest Skilled Persons stats are anything to go by) By Duncan Campbell The latest FCA Skilled Persons (SP) statistics are in, completing the data for the reporting year just gone. We've charted them for you...
19 Aug, 2024 FCA fines auditor for failing to flag fraud suspicions By Sara Cody Simon Treacy The Financial Conduct Authority has fined PwC £15 million for failing to report its reasonable belief that London Capital & Finance (LCF)...
16 Aug, 2024 FCA criticises auditor for CASS report failings By Sara Cody Duncan Campbell Simon Treacy In a first of its kind, the Financial Conduct Authority has censured an auditor for failing to report breaches of the FCA’s client asset...
02 Aug, 2024 A changing landscape: Bank of England’s approach to innovation in money and payments By Simon Treacy Against the backdrop of a rapidly evolving payments landscape, the Bank of England has launched a discussion paper on how it should...
31 Jul, 2024 The latest FCA Consumer Duty messaging (frogs and all) By Duncan Campbell Sheldon Mills is talking about frogs again. Small mercies, though: in this latest speech (at an FCA hybrid event on 31 July 2024) he was...
30 Jul, 2024 The missing DORA technical standard on subcontracting is found By Harry Eddis Raza Naeem James Morris Olivia Murphy +1 more... Show less The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have finalised their much-anticipated technical standard on subcontracting ICT services...