The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Designated Activities) (Supervision and Enforcement) Regulations 2025 have been published, alongside an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations amend the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 to provide for the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority's supervision and enforcement of requirements imposed by the designated activity regime. The Regulations enable the FCA to supervise designated activities by gathering information and launching investigations into persons carrying out designated activities, and to enforce its designated activity rules by publicly censuring or imposing financial penalties on persons that breach them. It also sets out the procedures that will apply to the giving of directions by the FCA relating to designated activities. In the first instance, the Regulations apply this supervision and enforcement framework to the Consumer Composite Investments (Designated Activities) Regulations 2024 and the Short Selling Regulations 2025. The stated intention is that the framework would also be extended to any future designated activities. The Regulations were made on January 13, 2025, and came into effect on January 14, 2025.
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