From 31 January 2024 the exemptions available from the restriction on communicating financial promotions appliable to high net worth (“HNW”) individuals and self-certified investors are changing.
The updates are...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
10/12/2023
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
AML/CFT ,
Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) ,
Cryptoassets ,
Decentralized Finance (DeFi) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Promotions ,
Financial Regulatory Agencies ,
FSMA ,
IMF ,
Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) ,
Libor ,
Mergers ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
SFDR ,
UCITS ,
UK
On 7 September 2023, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) set expectations ahead of its new financial promotion rules for cryptoassets (which we wrote about here).
From 8 October 2023, new rules for...more
In its February 2023 discussion paper (DP23/2) relating to the UK regulatory regime for asset management, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) briefly touched on fund tokenisation as an area of technological drive and...more
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The United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has become concerned that too many consumers are investing in high‑risk products without fully understanding them. To combat this, in August 2022, the FCA published a...more
On 19 January 2022, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a consultation paper (CP22/2) (the “Consultation”) setting out its proposals to strengthen its financial promotion rules for high-risk investments...more
1/25/2022
/ Cryptoassets ,
Cryptocurrency ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Instruments ,
Financial Promotions ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Financial Transactions ,
FinTech ,
High Risk Financial Products ,
Investment Opportunities ,
Marketing ,
Peer-to-Peer ,
UK ,
Virtual Currency