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UK FCA Handbook 132

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Handbook Notice 132, outlining legislative and technical updates to the FCA Handbook made by the statutory instruments set out below. - Non-Financial Misconduct...more

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Bank of England's FPC publishes July financial stability report

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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

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UK Mansion House 2025 and Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy: summary of key initiatives

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The Chancellor of the Exchequer has delivered her second Mansion House speech and announced the “Leeds Reforms” in conjunction with publication of the awaited Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy and related...more

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UK and EU H1 Digital Assets Regulatory Update

The first half of 2025 brought significant developments in the regulation of digital and cryptoassets in the UK and EU. In this half-year update, we review these and look ahead to likely developments in the UK and EU in the...more

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FCA Non-Financial Misconduct Rules: Private Fund Managers, Fintechs, and Other Non-Banks Firmly in Scope

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In a previous alert, “FCA D&I Standards for Large Firms Abandoned (for now), Non-financial Misconduct Rules Delayed (but Still Important),” we discussed the proposals put forward by the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...more

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UK Government publishes 10-year industrial strategy plan

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The UK Government has published a policy paper outlining its industrial strategy. The strategy centres around eight priority sectors (the IS-8), including financial services. The UK government's ambition is to establish the...more

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UK PRA Business Plan 2025/26: Priorities evolving towards increasing emphasis on competitiveness and growth

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The PRA has published its Business Plan for 2025/26, setting out the workplan for each of its strategic priorities and strategy to advance its primary and secondary objectives. The PRA comments that, alongside its continual...more

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UK digital securities sandbox instrument on ancillary FMI activities

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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

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UK Government Abolishes Payment Systems Regulator

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

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UK Treasury Committee publishes call for evidence on AI in financial services

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The UK Treasury Committee has published a call for evidence on AI in financial services, in light of growing use of the technology across the sector including in retail banking, investment banking, insurance and pensions...more

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UK Financial Conduct Authority responds to Government call for regulators to support growth

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The Financial Conduct Authority has published a letter (dated January 16, 2025) from Nikhil Rathi, FCA Chief Executive, sent to the Government, setting out its work to ensure that it is supporting the Government's U.K. growth...more

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Bank of England and UK Financial Conduct Authority Findings on Third Survey of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning in UK...

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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

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Regulatory monitoring: EU version Newsletter - November 2024

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1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: 2024 list of global systemically important banks - Status: Final - The FSB has published a 2024 list of global systemically...more

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Regulatory monitoring - November 2024

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1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - BReg: Government draft on the Second Future Financing Act (Regierungsentwurf zum zweiten Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz) Status: Draft - The...more

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UK FCA proposals to publicise enforcement investigations: Unanswered questions remain

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Last week, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) unveiled a 'Part 2' consultation paper detailing a revised version of its controversial proposals to publicly name firms under enforcement investigation. This development...more

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National Payments Vision: A Strategic Blueprint for the Future of UK Payments

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

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AI and Financial Stability: Questioning Tech-Agnostic Regulation in the UK?

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In our previous alert we mentioned a joint letter from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to the UK Government on their strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and...more

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Fintech Focus Podcast | Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs

As regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have turned their attention to fintechs, sanctions compliance will remain a priority for the sector. Joseph Kamyar is joined by white collar defense and...more

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Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs

As regulators such as the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority have turned their attention to fintechs, sanctions compliance will remain a priority for the sector. Joseph Kamyar is joined by white collar defense and...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Fintech Focus Podcast | The UK Fintech Investment Landscape

Susanne Chishti, founder and Chair of FINTECH Circle, joins Joseph Kamyar for this episode of “Fintech Focus” which takes listeners through current trends in the U.K. Fintech sector. In particular, we look at changes in...more

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The Informed Board - Summer 2024

Across industries, companies are facing new and uncertain regulatory pressures and demands in areas including artificial intelligence, sustainability, algorithmic pricing and fintech-bank relations. In this issue of The...more

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Investing in Fintechs – Navigating the UK Regulatory Approval Process

As the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consider feedback to their consultation on guidance regarding the UK change-in-controller regime (consultation paper 25/23), we provide a...more

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UK Financial Insights from Katten | Issue 13

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

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Bank Capital Standards for Cryptoasset Exposures Under the Basel Framework

On 17 July 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) finalized revisions to the prudential framework for banks’ exposures to cryptoassets. The revisions largely introduced additional requirements relating to the...more

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Operational resilience feedback from UK Financial Conduct Authority

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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

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