The Bank of England (BoE) has published a consultation (Consultation) on the UK's future regulatory framework for central counterparties (CCPs). This initiative forms part of the UK's post-Brexit financial regulatory reform,...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published the Financial Policy Committee's (FPC) final response to the 2024 review of the Other Systemically Important Institutions (O-SII) buffer framework. This follows the March consultation,...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 Bank of England (BoE) has published a consultation paper on a draft statement of policy (SoP) outlining its proposed approach to permissions, waivers and supervisory processes for central counterparties (CCPs), systemic...more
Following its November 2024 consultation, the Bank of England (BoE) has published final fundamental rules for financial market infrastructure firms (FMIs), a supervisory statement setting out how the BoE expects FMI to comply...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a letter dated 15 July, responding to the Chancellor of the Exchequer's letter that set out the government's recommendations to the BoE's Financial Market Infrastructure Committee...more
HM Treasury has published an update on the National Payments Vision (NPV), announcing plans to implement a new collaborative model for delivering the UK's next-generation retail payments infrastructure. The Payments Vision...more
The House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee (the Committee) has launched a call for evidence as part of its inquiry into the growth of private markets in the UK following the regulatory reforms introduced after...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 (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 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
The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has published the Financial Stability in Focus report on AI in the UK financial system. The FPC considers the potential benefits of AI with its growing...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
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
On 25 September, the U.K. Payment Systems Regulator confirmed that the maximum reimbursement limit for victims of Faster Payments Authorized Push Payment scams will be £85,000. The PSR began consulting on reducing the...more
Long IT sub-contracting chains can make it hard for financial institutions to understand the vulnerabilities in their IT estate and the location of key functions (where these may be located in entities who do not have a...more
On 4 May 2023, the Bank of England (BOE) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a consultation paper on the proposed changes to their enforcement procedures and policies. The consultation is due to close on 4...more
Assertive regulators are bringing greater clarity and new challenges as they step up oversight of fintech innovation. As the fast-growing fintech industry thrives, the sector has begun to attract greater regulatory...more
The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for June has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. ...more