10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
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Compliance into the Weeds: Global Anti-Corruption Leadership
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Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Retail Markets
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Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
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The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
On 21 July 2025, the UK Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published guidance regarding sanctions compliance in the cryptoasset sector. The publication is an assessment of threats to UK financial sanctions in...more
On 21 July 2025, the UK Office for Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) published its latest sector-specific threat assessment focusing on UK crypto-asset firms’ exposure to financial sanctions breaches, covering...more
Since December 2024, cryptoassets and related services are regulated in the European Union by the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Although the regulation provides a comprehensive set of rules for issuers of...more
Numerous jurisdictions across the globe are developing their own cryptoasset regulatory frameworks—the UK is no exception. Cryptoasset businesses overseas looking to enter the UK market, or to offer services to customers in...more
On 8 April 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published their Annual Work Programme, detailing what the FCA intends to deliver in 2025/26—read on for our views on what this means for the digital assets space....more
In a previous alert, we identified that the definition of a collective investment scheme (CIS) could capture on-chain staking, and that the UK government, acting through the HM Treasury (HMT), was looking to clarify the...more
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On 9 January 2025, the widely anticipated Statutory Instrument exempting cryptoasset staking from the meaning of “collective investment schemes” as defined under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000) was...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer makes her first Mansion House speech and HM Treasury publishes the National Payments Vision, indicating a focus on economic growth...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the Bank of Italy’s communication on unauthorised payment transactions; the Reserve Bank of Australia’s announcement of an upcoming review into retail payments...more
The Collins Dictionary word of the Year for 2021 was NFT (Non-Fungible Token), defined as “a unique digital certificate, registered in a blockchain, that is used to record ownership of an asset such as an artwork or a...more
The UK government has announced that it plans to regulate crypto under its existing financial services regime. Under the proposals, crypto will be subject to the UK Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 and under the remit...more
Cryptoassets continue to fall in value and the industry is in trouble - The big question now being asked about the cryptoassets meltdown is this: Is it the end of crypto as we know it, or only a short-term correction? The...more
On April 4, 2022, the UK government announced plans to become a “global hub” for the cryptoasset industry with proposals for the regulation of stablecoins, development of an NFT (non-fungible token) issued by the Royal Mint,...more
The United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority proposed to ban the marketing and sale in or from the UK to retail persons of derivatives and exchange-traded notes based on cryptocurrencies and utility digital tokens,...more
On January 23, 2019, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued its widely anticipated “Guidance on Cryptoassets” consultation paper CP19/3 (the “Consultation”). The Consultation followed the UK Cryptoassets Task...more