7/17/2025 10:44:00 AM Leeds Reforms: Starting gun sounds for comprehensive reforms to the FOS By Sara Cody The government, together with the FCA and the FOS, has begun the process of modernising the UK’s redress framework by publishing two...
7/1/2025 10:47:44 AM Advice/Guidance Boundary Review: Reflections on the FCA's targeted support proposals By Sara Cody Premlata Fagan FCA and Treasury’s joint Advice Guidance Boundary review is seeking to plug the UK's "advice gap" for retail investors. Targeted support...
7/1/2025 10:34:00 AM Advice/Guidance Boundary Review: FCA consults on its "once-in-a-generation" targeted support proposals By Premlata Fagan Sara Cody There is no denying that the advice gap is stark. Just 9% of adults received financial advice about their pensions or investments in the...
5/15/2025 10:57:16 AM Treatment of customers under the Consumer Duty – lessons for investment advisers from other contexts: 2025 supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers By Oliver Palmer This is the final blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025. The...
5/14/2025 10:44:21 AM Advice firm consolidation – five things to think about: 2025 supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers By Oliver Palmer This is the third blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025. The FCA has...
3/6/2025 1:46:44 PM I predict a RIAAT on retirement income advice – 2025 supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers By Oliver Palmer This is the second blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025. The FCA...
2/25/2025 5:18:40 PM 2025 supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers: the FCA’s ongoing advice review – why it isn’t ‘job done’ just yet By Oliver Palmer This is the first blog in a four-part series covering key supervisory and enforcement risks for investment advisers in 2025. A year on...
12/12/2024 6:49:14 PM Advice Guidance Boundary Review: FCA consults on a proposed new regime of targeted support for pensions By Premlata Fagan As promised in its feedback statement to its Advice Guidance Boundary proposals (set out in DP 23/5), the FCA has published its first...
12/12/2024 3:30:27 PM Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2025 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2025 report explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset...
11/21/2024 3:13:31 PM FCA sets out next steps for “Advice Guidance Boundary Review” By Premlata Fagan In December 2023, the government and the FCA put forward proposals to improve how people can access help with their investments...
11/15/2024 9:02:09 AM Growth and competitiveness - a new strategy By Elizabeth Dowd Rachel Reeves has used her first Mansion House speech as Chancellor to put forward reforms aimed at making the UK financial services...
10/8/2024 5:37:44 PM 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...
10/13/2023 12:38:34 PM Update on recent financial regulatory developments in the U.S. By Stephen Clipsham Brad Caswell Our U.S. Financial Regulation Group have published their latest update covering the most critical regulatory developments in the U.S....
9/5/2023 11:34:32 AM Advice vs guidance and the Consumer Investments Strategy By Alexia Katzaros In September 2021 the FCA published its Consumer Investments Strategy focused on promoting consumer confidence as well as risk awareness...
9/4/2023 2:53:56 PM UK reveals date for changes to financial promotions regime By Upasana Chauhan Simon Treacy New regulatory gateway for marketing financial services to apply from 7 February 2024.Affects businesses which rely on regulated firms to...
8/11/2022 9:04:54 AM FCA consults on changes to redress framework for pension transfer advice By Linklaters The FCA has opened a consultation (CP22/15) into redress calculations for customers who suffer financial loss following a DB to DC...