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The government confirmed plans to expand the scope of the UK ETS to further align with the EU ETS, following discussion on potential reintegration....more
In February 2025, the Department for Communities in Northern Ireland closed a public consultation that began late last year on the proposed introduction of a requirement for Northern Ireland employers to report on their...more
In our recent alert “Properly Valuing Private Equity, Venture, Real Estate, and Other Private Market Assets: Some Pointers for UK and EU Managers”, we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) focus on fund...more
The proposals aim to make the UK regime more proportionate and suggest different rules applying to hedge funds, venture capital firms, and private equity houses. On 7 April 2025, the FCA published a Call for Input, and HM...more
On 26 November 2024, the PRA and the FCA published a joint Consultation Paper on changes to the remuneration rules (PRA CP16/24, FCA CP24/24). The changes are relevant to banks, building societies, and PRA-designated...more
The UK’s consultation on deregulating commercial agents could have knock-on impacts on payment services and create regulatory divergence from the EU....more
In an era marked by the transition to greener energy sources, there is an intricate dance between achieving net-zero emissions and the critical role mining plays in this endeavor. This compilation of articles titled “Striking...more
Last week the FCA issued three announcements concerning its approach to the digital future of financial services in the UK. Amongst these was the FCA’s AI Update, their response to the government’s recent AI consultation...more
The EU regulators are reviewing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation introduced in 2021, exploring the need for potential additional adjustments. On 14 September 2023, the European Commission initiated a...more
The new securitisation framework will combine three sets of overlapping rules, in an effort to repeal and replace retained EU law in the UK. The missing piece of the puzzle to the UK’s new securitisation framework became...more
On 10 May 2023, the United Kingdom’s Department for Business and Trade published its policy paper, “Smarter Regulation to Grow the Economy.” The proposals contained therein are intended to “improve regulation across the board...more
Welcome to our January 2023 Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the non-listed funds sector. We have grouped the...more
The UK government confirmed on 30 November 2022 that there will be changes to the UK’s cybersecurity regulations in response to a public consultation launched earlier this year. This follows recent updates relating to the...more
On 11 May 2022, the keenly awaited Procurement Bill (announced in the Queen’s Speech) was formally introduced to the House of Lords and received its first reading. Running to 122 pages (and comprising 116 sections...more
On 2 February 2022, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) published the final form of its much-anticipated new International Data Transfer Agreement (IDTA) and the International Data Transfer Addendum to the European...more
The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) recently released its response to the UK government consultation, ‘Data: A new direction’. The consultation was conducted by the Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport...more
The triggering of the CCM under the UK ETS and ongoing consultations under UK Reach signal speedbumps in the transition process. On 30 November 2021, the UK government’s Department of Business, Energy and Industrial...more
Green shoots emerge as PE firms consider new ways to incorporate ESG into dealmaking. Market sentiment and the increasing importance of environmental, social, and governance (ESG) to firms’ competitiveness across the...more
On 11 August, the UK Information Commissioner’s Office launched a consultation paper on “International transfers under UK GDPR”. The documents released alongside the paper include a draft International Data Transfer Agreement...more
UK rules will diverge from the much-criticised EU framework. On 20 July 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/23) on amending the UK PRIIPs Regulation. The FCA has long held concerns about the PRIIPs...more
Proposals signal that the UK government is willing to diverge significantly from EU rules. On 1 July 2021, HM Treasury published a consultation on its Wholesale Markets Review....more
The latest edition of our Private Bank Briefing provides a roundup of legal and compliance issues impacting private banks and their clients from Q2 2021. In this edition, we cover sustainable finance developments, the...more
UK strives to “be a leader in AI technology” as it sets out its next steps for the regulation of artificial intelligence. On 23 March 2021, the UK Intellectual Property Office (IPO) published the outcome of its...more
On 28 April 2021 the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper (CP 21/9) on proposed changes to its investment research rules and best execution reporting requirements. We discuss these proposed...more
On November 30, 2020, Intercontinental Exchange, Inc. (ICE) announced that the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited (IBA), a wholly-owned subsidiary of ICE and the administrator of LIBOR, will consult in early December 2020...more