The new UK prudential regime for investment firms (IFPR) applied from January 2022. At the time, firms were encouraged to implement on a...
The FCA’s Consumer Duty contains new rules on firms’ treatment of vulnerable customers – enforceable rules. Firms will need to identify...
The Managing Director of the PSR, Chris Hemsley, has set out his views on tackling authorised push payment (APP) fraud. Points of...
The FCA has published a series of Dear CEO letters on the topic of Consumer Duty, including one titled “Implementing the Consumer Duty in...
The FCA has announced that it is seeking views on how it could improve regulation of the UK’s asset management industry, which consists...
Time is tight to implement the Consumer Duty. Industry is getting jumpy. Some firms feel like frogs being boiled. Why all the frog...
The European Commission has published a call for advice to the EBA and ESMA to provide an evaluation of the new prudential framework for...
The European Commission has published a Delegated Regulation (2023/363) to amend and correct the SFDR regulatory technical standards...
There have been concerns for some time that the proliferation of easy-to-get (or frictionless) Buy-Now-Pay-Later ("BNPL") credit from...
On 9 February 2023 the ECON published a report setting out its draft compromise position on the European Commission’s proposal for a...
The FCA has given firms feedback on their Consumer Duty implementation plans. This feedback contains valuable messages for firms as they...
The Work and Pensions Committee has published a letter from Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the FCA, on the FCA’s oversight of liability-driven...
The European Banking Authority has launched its EU-wide stress test for 2023, an exercise which assesses the solvency and resilience of...
The UK government has updated its plans for regulating cryptoassets. Here are our snapshot views on what we now know. Few surprises on...