The Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have together published a consultation paper on proposed additional Q&A under the UK's European Market Infrastructure Regulation....more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a policy statement confirming its amendments to the trade repository reporting requirements under the UK's European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). In June last year, the BoE...more
UK Financial Insights from Katten is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds in the UK and Europe....more
The regulatory landscape for derivatives reporting in the United Kingdom continues to evolve, with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (together, the Regulators) actively refining the UK...more
The Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have issued a joint statement reaffirming the effectiveness of their Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) on the supervision of Financial Market...more
The draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Mutual Recognition Agreement) (Switzerland) Regulations 2025 have been laid before Parliament and published with a draft explanatory memorandum. The Regulations seek to...more
The OTC Derivatives Risk Mitigation and Central Counterparties (Equivalence) (Switzerland) Regulations 2025 have been laid before Parliament and published with an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations, made on 16 July,...more
- What is new: HM Treasury and the UK regulators announced a package of financial services reforms on 15 July 2025, including cross-cutting reforms in the regulatory environment, significant changes to the SMCR regime, a...more
The UK Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has published a final policy statement and accompanying press release, confirming that the FOS is changing the interest rate applied to compensation awards to a time-weighted average...more
The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has published its July financial stability report alongside the record of its 27 June meeting. After assessing the risks to the UK financial system, the FPC reports that...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Bank of England, Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) and Prudential Regulation Authority have issued a joint statement announcing their revised memorandum of understanding (MoU) on the...more
The Bank of England and the UK Financial Conduct Authority have published a joint consultation paper proposing amendments to the UK EMIR trade repository reporting requirements, using their powers under article 9 of UK EMIR...more
The Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) has published a consultation paper seeking views on the interest rates applied to compensation awards. This follows concerns raised in response to a 2024 joint call for input with the UK...more
The Bank Resolution (Recapitalisation) Act 2025 (Act) received Royal asset on 15 May 2025. Although deceptively short and dependant on the passing of further regulations in order to come into effect, it introduces significant...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a speech by Sarah Breeden, Deputy Governor for Financial Stability, at the Point Zero Forum. The subject of the speech was the digitalisation of money and assets, and in particular the...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has announced the launch of the AI Consortium. The consortium will provide a space for public-private engagement to gather input from stakeholders on the capabilities, development, deployment and use...more
The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) has published its annual plan and budget for 2025/26. The foreword by Aidene Walsh, Chair of the PSR, references the government's announcement to incorporate the PSR into the FCA and...more
On 8 April, the Bank of England (BoE) has published its response to the discussion paper on reviewing access to Real-Time Gross Settlement (RTGS) accounts for settlement. In the discussion paper, initially published on 8...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its Handbook Notice 128 which (among other things) confirms Handbook changes made by the Digital Securities Depositories Instrument 2025 (FCA 2025/14). The instrument...more
Victoria Cleland, Executive Director of Payments, Bank of England (BoE) has given a speech on innovating wholesale payments: building a resilient and innovative future. In the speech, Ms Cleland discusses the BoE's innovation...more
The UK Chancellor of the Exchequer has announced details of the launch of the procurement process for the pilot digital gilt instrument (DIGIT) issuance. The pilot aims to: (i) enable the government to explore how distributed...more
We love a “to do” list! So, following a flurry of announcements from the FCA and publication of the Treasury’s Action Plan aimed at overhauling the current regulatory landscape, what is on the financial regulators’ “to do”...more
On 11 March 2025, the UK government announced its decision to abolish the Payment Systems Regulator (PSR) as part of a broader initiative to reduce regulatory burdens and stimulate economic growth. This action is intended to...more
Representatives of the UK government and regulators spoke at the UK T+1 Accelerated Settlement Market industry event to confirm their support of the UK's move to a T+1 settlement cycle. The Economic Secretary to the Treasury...more
After a flurry of AI-related papers from the previous UK Conservative government and regulators in 2023 and the first half of 2024 (and the establishment of the UK’s AI Safety Institute and the AI Policy Directorate),...more