The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/10, setting out the final rules for the new public offer platforms (POP) regime. This follows consultations in July 2024 and January of this...more
In this news update, we highlight legal developments in UK pensions from January 2025. This update covers: Investment news: Pensions Investment Review: consultation closes Derivatives clearing exemption to be extended...more
The Regulations: (i) replace assimilated law in relation to the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation, establishing a new legislative framework for the regulation of Consumer Composite...more
HM Treasury has published a consultation on developing a U.K. Green Taxonomy to classify sustainable economic activities, with the aim of increasing sustainable investment and reducing greenwashing risk. Responses to the...more
HM Treasury has published a policy statement on the treatment of overseas investment exchanges for the purposes of the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation. HM Treasury initially proposed to expand the definition of...more
The consultation sets out further detail on the government's proposals, announced as part of the Edinburgh Reforms in December 2022, to develop a venue for the intermittent trading of private company shares and seeks feedback...more
Environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings are increasingly used by investors, lenders and regulators to assess the sustainability performance of companies. They can, for example, assess an entity’s exposure to, and...more
The tone of the Call for Evidence indicates the controversial research unbundling rules could be primed for reform. On 3 April 2023, HM Treasury published a Call for Evidence as the first step in the independent review...more