10 For 10: Top Compliance Stories For the Week Ending July 19, 2025
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Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Retail Markets
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Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published the findings from its multi-firm review of principal trading firms' compliance with the detailed organisational requirements for algorithmic trading set out under the UK...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau's decision to restart the open banking rulemaking process; the UK FCA's publication of a policy statement with final...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has released the second report on generating and using synthetic data in financial services, offering comprehensive insights into the governance, ethical, and regulatory considerations...more
The UK government has unveiled a comprehensive package of reforms aimed at recalibrating the regulatory environment, unlocking productive capital, and reinforcing the country’s status as a global financial hub. For asset...more
The Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have together published a consultation paper on proposed additional Q&A under the UK's European Market Infrastructure Regulation....more
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 UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new "Wholesale banks supervision" webpage which consolidates insights from the FCA's multi-firm and other supervisory work involving wholesale banks. The webpage covers a...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published PS25/9 and PS25/10 in July 2025, setting out the final rules that will govern the UK’s new public offers and admissions to trading regime, which will replace the existing UK...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority published an updated Enforcement Information Guide, which reflects changes in the FCA Handbook to its revised Enforcement Guide (ENFG) and the Decision Procedure and Penalties manual (DEPP)....more
The appointed representatives regime has been around longer than many of us might realise, having been introduced in 1986, and so predating our beloved Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA) by some years. No doubt,...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a letter dated 31 July, addressed to claims management companies (CMCs) involved with motor finance claims, urging them to review their financial promotions to ensure...more
Since its inception in 2016, the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR) has served as a cornerstone of the UK’s financial services regulatory landscape, designed to enhance individual accountability and raise...more
Reform of the appointed representatives (ARs) regime has been on the cards for some time, with an HM Treasury (HMT) call for evidence having been published as far back as December 2021. HMT has now published a policy...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its third annual report of the Wider Implications Framework (WIF) for the 2024/25 period, covering 1 April 2024 to 31 March. The report summarises coordinated efforts and...more
The draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Mutual Recognition Agreement) (Switzerland) Regulations 2025 have been laid before Parliament and published with a draft explanatory memorandum. The Regulations seek to...more
The UK Payment Systems Regulator (PSR), in conjunction with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), has published its regulatory fees figures for 2025/26. The annual funding requirement is set at GBP27 million, with fees...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published its latest edition of its newsletter for primary market participants, Primary Markets Bulletin 56...more
- What is new: Preliminary findings from the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA’s) market study of premium finance, which focuses on motor and home insurance, highlight concerns about affordability, value and transparency,...more
The principal regulations governing offers of securities to the public and admissions of securities to trading on regulated markets in the United Kingdom, including the requirements for a prospectus, are contained in the UK...more
The UK FSMA 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Amendment Regulations 2025 have been laid. The regulations extend the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) powers of direction to a new category of derivative, referred to...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 Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement (PS25/9) to implement the new Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2024 (POATRs), which will replace the UK Prospectus Regulation....more
HM Treasury has published an updated version of the Banking Act 2009 Special Resolution Regime Code of Practice. The code sets out resolution tools and powers available under the Banking Act 2009 for authorities to use in...more
On July 15th, the UK Government published the final version of its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy aims to “[roll] back regulation that had gone too far in seeking to...more