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Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Retail Markets
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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
The FCA published a policy statement (PS25/12) setting out changes to the safeguarding regime for payments and e-money firms. The FCA consulted on the proposals in CP24/20 in September 2024. The changes to the rules are in...more
The regulatory landscape for derivatives reporting in the United Kingdom continues to evolve, with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (together, the Regulators) actively refining the UK...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/11, accompanied by a press release, finalising the first set of reforms under the Mortgage Rule Review (MRR). These changes aim to simplify...more
The Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) long-awaited new measures for tackling non-financial misconduct (NFM) in financial services are (finally) here. On 2 July 2025, the FCA published its final rules in Consultation Paper...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published joint final policy statement 11/25, finalising amendments to the PRA Rulebook and FCA Guidance (FG25/4) on the de...more
Bullying, harassment and violence set to be conduct issues under new FCA Rule - The Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) recently published its Policy Statement and Consultation on non‑financial misconduct (“CP25/18”). ...more
In our previous alert Paying for Buy-Side Investment Research: New Rules Ease the US-UK Divide | Insights & Resources | Goodwin we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) final rules in its policy paper PS24/9:...more
We are now starting to see a real shift in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Enforcement strategy following a changing of the guard in 2023, which brought in Therese Chambers and Steve Smart to be Joint Executive...more
On 30 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published Policy Statement PS24/4 (“PS24/4”) setting out the final FCA Securitisation Sourcebook (“SECN”). Subject to the repeal of the Securitisation Regulation...more
In this week’s edition, we take a detailed look at the Financial Conduct Authority’s guidance on the anti-greenwashing rule, which requires in-scope firms to ensure that their sustainability claims are consistent, fair, clear...more
On 31 May, 2024, a new anti‑greenwashing rule is being introduced by the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) as part of its Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (“SDR”). However, the FCA has only recently published...more
Activist shareholders had a busy 2023: The incidence of activist campaigns in Europe soared by almost 70% compared to 2022, according to data compiled by Skadden and Activistmonitor. As we described in a previous issue of The...more
In June of this year, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) introduced rules to allow mortgage lenders to more easily vary contracts in order to allow borrowers to make reduced capital payments or switch to an...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions, or IOSCO, published a consultation report in May titled "Policy Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets." Originally published by Law360 - July 11,...more
On 7 June 2023, the UK Parliament passed the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order 2023, which brings cryptoassets within the scope of rules that regulate the marketing of financial...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has published near final rules setting out its approach to regulating the financial promotion of ‘qualifying cryptoassets’. The new rules mean financial promotions on cryptoassets are only...more
With a new operational resilience framework in force in the UK and similar reforms proposed in the EU and the US, we examine how the regimes compare and their practical impact on financial services firms....more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) recently introduced important changes to the regime governing Appointed Representatives (ARs), which carry out regulated activity for which an authorised firm is responsible. The new...more
Key Point - The FCA is introducing a new Principle for Businesses, namely Principle 12: “A firm must act to deliver good outcomes for retail customers.” Firms will need to assess and evidence how they are acting to...more
The FCA has published a policy statement and final rules aimed at improving the appointed representatives (ARs) regime. Previous FCA data analysis had shown that there are more issues arising from principals and ARs than from...more
The new rules provide issuers with flexibility to report on representation of women by reference to either gender identity or sex. On 20 April 2022, the FCA published its final policy decision on the proposals set out in...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has published amendments to the UK Listing Rules and Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules which implement mandatory board and executive management-level diversity and inclusion...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has published its final policy decision on disclosure regarding diversity and inclusion targets for boards of directors and executive committees of certain UK-listed companies. The...more
The UK regulators’ new rules on Operational Resilience enter into force on 31 March 2022. Firms need to ensure that they have identified “important business services” and set “impact tolerances” for those important business...more
The new rules aim to make London a more attractive listing venue for founder-led and other innovative IPO candidates. On 2 December 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Policy Statement (PS21/22)...more