Since its inception in 2016, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) has served as a cornerstone of the UK’s financial services regulatory landscape, designed to enhance individual accountability and raise...more
Only months away from its seventh anniversary, HM Treasury announced on Friday as part of its sweeping “Edinburgh Reforms” that it intends to commission a review of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR)....more
On 26 July 2017, the FCA published its much-anticipated consultation paper on the extension of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) to FCA-only authorised firms. We have set out below our initial thoughts on...more
Overall, the Final Report sets out some important proposed changes for FICC markets, such as creating a new statutory civil and criminal market abuse regime for spot FX, lengthening the maximum sentence for criminal market...more
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On 6 May 2014, the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced that HM Treasury would undertake a review of the enforcement decision making processes for the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority...more