2/6/2026 10:58:00 AM Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2026 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2026 (now updated to January 2026) explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the...
1/28/2026 4:02:25 PM Payments in 2026 #4 – Operational resilience By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Imran Bhaluani Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less This year regulators will start using new powers to make sure that the payments sector is ready to withstand disruption. Putting DORA...
1/27/2026 3:02:07 PM UK FCA opens review into long-term impact of AI on retail financial services By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy Sara Cody Recent advances in AI – particularly generative AI – could transform retail financial services. The Financial Conduct Authority has...
1/21/2026 9:30:03 AM FCA set deadline for giving UK firms more AI guidance By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy Sara Cody A parliamentary committee has called on the UK Financial Conduct Authority to give more clarity on how financial regulation applies to...
11/26/2025 3:53:50 PM EU authorities weigh up impact of AI regulation on financial services By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy EU financial services firms must consider how their adoption of AI relates to both the EU AI Act and the existing financial regulatory...
11/19/2025 11:20:58 PM EU Digital Omnibus: Takeaways for financial services By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The European Commission plans to simplify some EU rules on AI, cybersecurity and data. Its Digital Omnibus package proposes amending the...
11/14/2025 10:01:53 PM Parliamentary committee warns of overlap between EU AI rules and financial regulation By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs has adopted a report on AI in financial services. The committee,...
10/15/2025 8:37:51 PM FCA signals openness to direct dealing and tokenisation for UK fund management industry By Raza Naeem Elliot Jack Premlata Fagan Simon Treacy +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority is consulting on how fund managers can enable direct-to-fund dealing and use tokenised registers. As well...
9/23/2025 10:16:16 AM FCA tailors how its rulebook will apply to cryptoasset activities By Harry Eddis Richard Hay James Morris Olivia Murphy Sam Quicke Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less A new consultation from the Financial Conduct Authority shows more clearly the extent of the compliance burden to come for crypto...
8/28/2025 9:56:17 AM DORA: Designating critical ICT third-party service providers By Guillaume Couneson Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The European Supervisory Authorities are contacting vendors to say they expect to designate them as being “critical” to the EU financial...
8/19/2025 3:21:12 PM EU insurance supervisor guides firms on managing AI risks By Rebekah Ellis The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority has finalised its opinion on AI Governance and Risk Management. EIOPA’s...
7/22/2025 5:17:50 PM The countdown begins: FMIs given one year to put fundamental rules into practice By James Morris Simon Treacy The Bank of England has finalised its Fundamental Rules for financial market infrastructure. Having originally proposed a six-month...
7/8/2025 8:31:06 PM Final pieces of DORA rulebook fall into place By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy In the last couple of years EU financial entities have been busy implementing the Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA started to...
7/8/2025 5:19:50 PM EBA to extend its outsourcing guidelines to cover all third party risks outside DORA By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy The European Banking Authority is consulting on new guidelines for the management of third party risk. The guidelines will replace the...
6/26/2025 4:32:08 PM FCA criticises how e-money and payments firms manage risk By Harry Eddis Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan Simon Treacy +3 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority has called on UK payments firms to improve their compliance arrangements. It follows a review which has...
6/13/2025 3:04:56 PM EU securities authority turns spotlight on third party risks By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy The European Securities and Markets Authority has given regulators a guide for supervising third party risks to the financial sector. EU...