12/18/2025 10:27:15 PM FCA drafts more UK crypto regulation By Peter Bevan Richard Hay Harry Eddis James Morris Olivia Murphy Sam Quicke Simon Treacy Sophia Le Vesconte +5 more... Show less Swiftly following the release of the UK’s cryptoasset legislation, the Financial Conduct Authority has opened three consultations on the...
12/17/2025 8:40:28 PM UK consults on future benchmarks regulation By Peter Bevan Raza Naeem James Morris Pan Papakyprianou Simon Treacy +2 more... Show less HM Treasury has opened a consultation on the future regulatory regime for benchmarks and benchmark administrators. The Government says...
12/17/2025 11:08:01 AM Financial Regulation Legal Outlook 2026 By Stephen Clipsham Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2026 explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset Management and...
12/15/2025 10:25:58 PM UK makes milestone law to regulate cryptoassets By Harry Eddis Peter Bevan Richard Hay James Morris Olivia Murphy Sam Quicke Sophia Le Vesconte Simon Treacy +5 more... Show less HM Treasury has laid legislation before Parliament which will introduce a regulatory regime for cryptoassets. The new regime will start...
12/12/2025 8:07:25 PM Target Support is coming – FCA publishes near final rules and guidance By Sara Cody The FCA has published near final rules and guidance for the delivery of targeted support to retail consumers. These are designed to be...
12/12/2025 5:18:38 PM FCA fines Nationwide £44m for financial crime control failings By Victoria McGowan The FCA has fined Nationwide just over £44m for failings in its anti-financial crime systems and controls between October 2016 and July...
12/12/2025 4:41:10 PM The FCA finalises the CCI disclosure framework – our initial takeaways. By Raza Naeem Elliot Jack On 8 December, the FCA published PS 25/20, setting out the rules for its new Consumer Composite Investment (“CCI”) regime. This will...
12/11/2025 3:40:34 PM FCA proposes significant changes to client cat rules and rationalises conflicts of interest rules By Sara Cody Karen Cooper Raza Naeem Clare Whittle +1 more... Show less The FCA has published a consultation (FCA CP25/36) outlining proposed changes to the UK client categorisation regime. A link to our full...
12/9/2025 11:54:29 AM Suite of FCA measures to boost UK investment culture published By Sara Cody Raza Naeem Clare Whittle James Morris Elliot Jack +2 more... Show less The FCA has published a package of four papers and statements, aimed at reinforcing wholesale markets and empowering retail investors....
12/9/2025 11:13:25 AM FCA sets out its expectations of co-manufacturers By Sara Cody Raza Naeem Clare Whittle James Morris +1 more... Show less As promised in its September letter to HMT, the FCA is continuing its work to rebalance the benefit and burden imposed by the Consumer...
11/18/2025 1:44:32 PM Wider Consumer Duty lessons from the FCA's CFD value work By Sara Cody Duncan Campbell The FCA has made a push on contracts for difference (CFDs) recently with a warning not to push professional or redirection promotions to...
11/17/2025 2:08:44 PM FCA criticises how firms manage risks By Simon Treacy UK financial firms can do more to explain how they manage risks to their business, according to the Financial Conduct Authority....
11/10/2025 11:06:57 PM Catch up on our recent podcasts on agentic payments By Imran Bhaluani Sam Quicke It looks like the future of payments is going to be powered by AI. In a couple of podcasts, we explain what sets agentic payments apart...
11/7/2025 4:29:02 PM UK releases strategy for updating retail payments infrastructure By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Olivia Murphy Frances Hodgkins Simon Treacy +2 more... Show less UK regulators say changes to payments infrastructure should go beyond a like-for-like upgrade. According to a new strategy, the next...
11/5/2025 12:13:15 PM EU Directive on Distance Marketing of Financial Services: One month to the transposition deadline By Raza Naeem Victoria McGowan There is now just over a month to go until the deadline for transposing the EU Directive on financial services contracts concluded at a...
10/28/2025 4:39:13 PM First Challenge to FCA's New Investigation Publicity Policy Dismissed By Sophie Walden The High Court has dismissed a judicial review claim brought by an anonymised company ("CIT") challenging the FCA’s decision to publicly...