Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Wholesale Markets
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
The UK Financial Conduct Authority has announced plans to review its client categorisation rules to unlock more investment opportunities for wealthy investors and support capital markets...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published consultation paper CP25/20 on the systematic internaliser (SI) regime for bonds and derivatives. The consultation builds on the November 2024 final policy statement which...more
The draft Markets in Financial Instruments (Miscellaneous Amendments) Regulations 2025 has been laid before the UK Parliament under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (FSMA 2023), together with a draft explanatory...more
The following legislation that comprises the EU Listing Act package has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union: - Regulation (EU) 2024/2809 amending the EU Prospectus Regulation, the EU MAR and EU...more
During his remarks at a meeting of the International Bar Association’s Asset Management Industry Conference on Global Challenges and Opportunities in Boston, Commissioner Uyeda commented on investment research and the...more
Key developments in May 2024: ESG: The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) updated its webpage on the sustainability disclosure requirements (“SDR”) and investments labelling regime. Among other things, the webpage has been...more
On 10 April 2024, the FCA published its consultation paper (CP24/7) on payment optionality for investment research. This followed the Investment Research Review’s report from summer 2023, which recommended that the FCA should...more
Financial Markets Infrastructure: The Bank of England published a speech by Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, on operational resilience and its expectations of financial market infrastructures...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has opened a consultation setting out proposals for allowing firms to use joint (bundled) payments for third-party research and execution services, subject to certain requirements being...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has launched a consultation on proposals for reforming the commodity derivatives regulatory framework, which covers position limits, the exemptions from those limits, position management...more
Since the beginning of the Brexit transition period, developments in both the UK and EU have impacted the MiFID rules in various ways. In the UK, there have been changes under the EUWA on-shoring process; “quick-fix”...more
The report and recommendations of the UK Investment Research Review were published on July 10, 2023. The recommendations have been accepted by the government and the Financial Conduct Authority has committed to prioritizing...more
The consumer/retail sector has been the subject of a number of publications this week, including the European Commission’s Retail Investment Package and the FCA’s consultation on a new framework for firms to better support...more
The U.K. government has published a draft statutory instrument (and related explanatory memorandum), which will be known as the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Commodity Derivatives and Emission Allowances) Order...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
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) published a corrigendum from the European Commission to a set of answers on the application of the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (EU/2019/2088) (“SFDR”)....more