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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its 2024/25 competitiveness and growth report, setting out how it has advanced its secondary competitiveness and growth objective (SCGO). The SCGO was introduced...more
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA“) has published its Business Plan for 2023/23 setting out its strategic priorities and anticipating its new, secondary objective to facilitate international competitiveness and...more
UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector trends H2 2021 | H1 2022 — Banks - Our outlook for bank M&A is extremely positive despite current market uncertainty. Many of Europe’s lenders dedicated significant resources...more
Regulatory Developments - United Kingdom: Kalifa Review of UK FinTech published - On 26 February 2021, HM Treasury published the Kalifa Review of UK FinTech, identifying priority areas to support the UK’s fintech sector. The...more
Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more
The wait is over. Whispers of mega-deals have matured into agenda items for boards of many larger European banks. Overview - 3 highlights of bank M&A: - Bank consolidation: The numbers speak for themselves—100 regional and...more
Setting the scene The long anticipated European Commission (DG COMP) report on "EU loan syndication and its impact on competition in credit markets" (see here) has finally been published. The study primarily focuses on the...more
There is much for authorised firms to consider in the year ahead. Firms have been through the intensive period of the enactment of the second Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II), but must now step up their...more
European Union: EU Commission maintains close scrutiny of retail geo-blocking - On the 18th of March 2016, the EU Commission published initial findings from its e-commerce sector inquiry. The initial findings show a...more