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
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
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
On January 13, the NYDFS launched the Transatlantic Regulatory Exchange (TRE), an international secondment program with the Bank of England, which would allow collaboration between regulators by exchanging staff. The...more
The Bank of England published the findings of its third joint survey with the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority on the use of Artificial Intelligence and machine learning in financial services. The survey aims to build on...more
On November 14, 2024, the UK government unveiled its National Payments Vision (the Vision), a strategy designed to reshape the UK’s payments ecosystem. This Vision responds to the findings of the 2023 Future of Payments...more
Firms have just over six months until the transition period for implementing the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England rules and guidance on operational resilience...more
On April 3, 2024, the Bank of England and U.K. Financial Conduct Authority published a joint consultation paper on proposed rules for the incoming digital securities sandbox. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023...more
Amongst the broad range of updates this week, at international level, the FSB published its thematic peer review on MMF Reforms and the BCBS published the outcomes of its meeting held on 28 and 29 February, including that it...more
Responses to the joint Bank of England and HM Treasury consultation paper on a “digital pound” are in, with over 50,000 submissions in total. The scale of feedback shows significant interest in a discussion which could pave...more
On 6 November 2023, the Bank of England (the UK’s central bank) issued a discussion paper on the regulation on stablecoins, alongside another paper by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (DP23/4) and a “Dear CEO” letter...more
The Bank of England has published a joint consultation paper with HM Treasury on the possibility of a digital pound in the U.K. It is envisaged that the digital pound would be a retail central bank digital currency, to be...more
Following the recently introduced Solvency UK for insurers, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt (the UK finance minister) has announced the Edinburgh Reforms, a further series of reforms aimed at the UK financial...more
The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority (together, the supervisory authorities) have published a discussion paper proposing measures to supervise and enhance the resilience of...more
report on the Future of Post-Trade. The Taskforce is made up of financial market industry individuals involved in post-trade processing activities and was set up as part of the Bank of England's response to the "Future of...more
The Bank of England (Bank) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published their final report of discussions from the UK Artificial Intelligence Public-Private Forum on February 17. Over quarterly meetings and several...more
SMCR extension: SI extending implementation date made - The Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/929) have been made....more
The Bank of England and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority are establishing the Financial Services AI Public Private Forum that Governor Mark Carney announced in June 2019. The regulators are calling for expressions of...more
In its 2015 Productivity Plan, the government committed to working with UK regulators to publish Innovation Plans setting out how legislation and enforcement frameworks could adapt to emerging technologies and disruptive...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and...more