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HM Treasury (HMT) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have launched consultations proposing a streamlined regulatory framework for UK AIFMs. The key proposals include: These reforms aim to introduce a more proportional...more
Both EU and non-EU fund managers marketing a fund in the EU or the UK (either under an EU marketing passport or the relevant national placement regimes) are required to prepare an AIFMD-compliant annual report within six...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a final policy statement (PS25/4), together with an updated webpage and press release, on final rules extending the new payment optionality for investment research to...more
On 9 May 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued policy statement PS 25/4, setting out, and bringing into force, final rules on investment research payment options for fund managers. The new rules follow the...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has recently published a consultation paper (CP25/9) setting out further proposals on product information for consumer composite investments (CCIs), i.e., investments where the returns...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published information setting out its expectations for firms applying for collective investment schemes to be authorised as authorised unit trusts, authorised contractual schemes...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") Sustainability Disclosure Requirements and investment labels regime ("SDR") was originally scheduled to come into force from 2 December 2024. In order to allow firms to deal with...more
The FCA provides details of the application process and sets out the standards required of funds to be eligible for the regime, including that they are managed in the best interests of investors, hold appropriate investments...more
On 11 July 2024, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its final rules (PS24/6) for a new, simplified and more competitive UK listing regime (the “Rules”).The FCA’s overall aim is to create a more...more
Welcome to the second edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory, and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect to...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 Prudential regulation - (a) General - (i) EU - ECB: Memorandum of Cooperation between ECB and CAs on third-country bank supervision - Status: Final - The ECB has published a Memorandum of...more
In recent years, there has been a noticeable increase in green products and the promotion of sustainable objectives across the financial services industry. For example, we have seen much discussion of green loans, green...more
Welcome to the first edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect to...more
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) is consulting on changes to its rules to allow funds domiciled outside the UK to market to UK retail customers....more
On 28 November 2023, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) confirmed the long-awaited final rules and guidance for UK asset managers aimed at improving the trust and transparency around sustainable investment products. In a...more
The FCA has set out good and poor practices for asset managers to consider in relation to funds with ESG or sustainable characteristics. On 16 November 2023, the FCA published the findings from its review of how asset...more
The European Commission recently launched two consultations — a public consultation and a targeted consultation (collectively, the Consultations) — seeking stakeholders’ feedback on potential changes to the Sustainable...more
Yesterday, ESMA published a risk analysis report outlining the results of its disclosure study on ESG names and claims in the EU funds industry. ESMA utilised natural language processing ("NLP") techniques to analyse the...more
Welcome to the second edition of our 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...more
On 10 October 2022, the London Stock Exchange (LSE) introduced the Voluntary Carbon Market (VCM) with the aim of promoting transparency and standardising carbon disclosures (a counter to “greenwashing”) and increasing the...more
As investors have piled into ESG-friendly mutual funds over the past several years, the SEC has begun ratcheting up scrutiny of the representations made by the advisers of those ESG investment funds. This week, the SEC...more
The fund and asset management industry has been more focused on environmental, social and governance (“ESG”) issues in the last two years than it has been in, perhaps, the last decade....more
INTRODUCTION - We’ve heard a lot over the past year about Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) regulatory developments affecting asset managers in the European Union, which is regarded as leading the way on ESG...more
The FCA’s Policy Statement published on 25 October 2021 provides feedback to its May 2021 consultation (the Consultation) and sets out the final rules and guidance for the new authorised open-ended fund regime to invest in...more