Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
3/10/2025
/ Alternative Investment Funds ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
Asset Management ,
Cryptoassets ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Economic Growth ,
Economic Sanctions ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Investors ,
Popular ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
Following the turn of the new year, our UK Regulatory specialists have examined the key regulatory developments in 2025 impacting a range of UK and European firms within the financial services sector. The key dates have been...more
1/16/2025
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Asset Management ,
Compliance ,
Cryptoassets ,
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) ,
Disclosure Requirements ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
MiFID II ,
Money Market Funds ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Securities Regulation ,
SFDR ,
Sustainability ,
UK
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
1/6/2025
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Corporate Governance ,
CPTPP ,
Cryptoassets ,
Dear Colleague Letter ,
Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) ,
EU ,
European Benchmark Regulation (BMR) ,
European Commission ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FSMA ,
MiFID II ,
MiFIR ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
SFDR ,
UK ,
UK Competition and Markets Authority (CMA)
On 30 July 2024, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a number of updates in relation to its work on complaints against motor finance firms.
In particular, the FCA published an update...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation.
Key developments in June 2024:
28 June
PRIIPs Regulation: The Joint Committee...more
7/5/2024
/ AML/CFT ,
Anti-Money Laundering ,
Cryptoassets ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Institutions ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
New Regulations ,
Proposed Regulation ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
UK
31 March -
SFTR: The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published an updated version of its Q&As (ESMA74-362-893) on complying with reporting requirements under the Regulation on reporting and transparency...more
4/10/2023
/ Amended Regulation ,
AML/CFT ,
Banking Sector ,
Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) ,
Capital Markets ,
Cryptoassets ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
EMIR ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
EU Benchmark Regulation ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
MiFIR ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Short Selling ,
UK
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation.
...more
10/5/2022
/ Bank of England ,
Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) ,
Commission Delegated Regulation ,
EU ,
European Commission ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Infrastructure ,
MiFID ,
MiFID II ,
MiFIR ,
MREL ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
TLAC ,
UK
Key developments in June 2022:
30 June -
The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a consultation paper (CP22/11) on winding down synthetic sterling LIBOR and USD LIBOR.
The Bank of England (“BoE”)...more
7/6/2022
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Blockchain ,
Distributed Ledger Technology (DLT) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Taxonomy
Key developments in April 2022:
29 April -
The Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) published for consultation an interim report that recommends measures to assist supervisory and regulatory authorities in developing...more
5/6/2022
/ Asset Management ,
CRD IV Directive ,
EU ,
European Central Bank ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
FSB ,
Investment Funds ,
Libor ,
Private Funds ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
UK
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") published its Regulatory Digest for August 2018 in which it highlighted key regulatory news including reference to a new insurer start-up unit ("NISU") that the PRA and the...more
10/2/2018
/ Cross-Border ,
EU ,
European Central Bank ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
FSMA ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Reporting Requirements ,
UK
3 April -
The Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published a press release, warning that it intends to take action against general insurance firms that fail to properly implement the rules aimed at increasing...more
5/2/2018
/ AIMA ,
Antitrust Provisions ,
Artificial Intelligence ,
ECON ,
EU ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Central Bank ,
European Commission ,
European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Instruments ,
Financial Regulatory Reform ,
Financial Services Industry ,
MiFID II ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Solvency II ,
UK ,
WTO