Alongside its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, the UK government has laid before Parliament, a draft of the Financial Services (Overseas Recognition Regime Designations) Regulations 2025 (the ORR...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a suite of publications in its capacity as the UK′s resolution authority, covering significant updates in relation to its approach to setting the minimum requirement for own funds and...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
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a series of documents regarding its work on implementing the digital pound. The Digital Pound Experiment Report on Offline Payments assesses the technical feasibility of implementing an...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
The Bank of England has outlined its priorities for 2025 in the regulation of Financial Market Infrastructure. In a speech given on 10 February 2024, the Bank of England (the “Bank”) outlined its priorities for 2025 in the...more
HM Treasury has published a letter (dated 18 December 2024) from Andrew Bailey, Bank of England Governor, in his role as Chair of the Financial Policy Committee. In the letter, Mr Bailey sets out the response of the FPC to...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
In response to global uncertainty the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has further delayed the implementation of the Basel 3.1 standards in the UK to 1 January 2027. This delay comes just four months...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
In our previous Comparative Guide, we explored innovations in private forms of digital money and money-like instruments available to retail customers, including fiatreferencing stablecoins, e-money and tokenised deposits. As...more
The Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority, and the Bank of England have launched consultations on operational incident and third-party reporting. The regulators propose to establish a framework to...more
The Bank of England has published an updated memorandum of understanding between the BoE and the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority on the supervision of markets and financial market infrastructures...more
The Banking Act 2009 (Wholesale Cash Oversight Fees) Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 enabled the Bank of England to oversee certain...more
The Bank of England has published its annual report on its supervision of financial market infrastructures, covering the period December 16, 2023 —December 17, 2024. The report sets out the work undertaken by the BoE over the...more
The Bank of England has updated its approach to stress testing the U.K. banking system. From 2025 onwards, the BoE will move from an annual to a biennial frequency for its main bank capital stress test...more
The Bank of England has published the final report on its system-wide exploratory scenario. The SWES was a 'system-wide' exercise, incorporating a wide range of financial firms and business models, focusing not on the...more
Financial centres around the world have been hosts to branches and representative offices of international banks since as early as the 19th century. The term “branch” refers to a local establishment of a foreign financial...more
The Bank of England has updated its approach to financial market infrastructure supervision. The BoE states that its approach to supervision continues to be underpinned by four core principles: (i) its supervisors rely 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
The Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority have published a joint policy statement on operational resilience for critical third parties (CTPs) in the U.K. financial sector, which includes their final...more
HM Treasury has published the National Payments Vision, outlining the government's plans for bolstering the U.K. payments sector. The Vision, which is an integral part of the latest Mansion House reforms, responds to the...more
The Bank of England has published a speech by Sarah Breeden, BoE Deputy Governor, Financial Stability, on AI and financial stability. In the speech, Ms. Breeden explores the novel features of Generative AI, and how financial...more
The Bank of England has began consulting on proposals for its supervisory fees for financial market infrastructure firms for 2024/25. The proposals cover: (i) the fee rates to meet the BoE's 2024/25 funding requirement for...more
The Bank of England and Financial Conduct Authority have published a joint policy statement providing feedback to responses received to the Digital Securities Sandbox joint consultation (CP24/5). We discussed the proposals in...more