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Further Reform for UK Private Fund Managers: The Government’s Road Map for Growth in Financial Services

Goodwin on 7/23/2025

On 15 July 2025, Chancellor of the Exchequer Rachel Reeves delivered her Mansion House 2025 speech unveiling the Leeds Reforms, a programme for financial services reforms to drive investment and growth in the sector....more

UK guidance on acquisitions and increases in control in PRA and FCA authorised firms

A&O Shearman on 11/12/2024

The UK financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), have recently set out their final policy on the assessment of acquisitions and increases in control of PRA...more

Regulation Round Up - December 2023

Proskauer Rose LLP on 1/4/2024

Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in December 2023: 21 December - UK / Swiss Regulatory...more

AI and Machine Learning in UK financial services: the public response to the FCA and PRA

Goodwin on 10/31/2023

In our previous alert, we discussed the emerging trends for regulating artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services and mentioned a joint paper published by the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial...more

Buying a UK Crypto Business: The New Regulatory Hurdles

Goodwin on 9/21/2022

The advance of the regulation of crypto-assets and crypto-related service providers has been piecemeal in the U.K. The latest round of changes took place in the Money Laundering Regulations 2017 (MLR) on 1 September...more

Promotion of Cryptoassets to UK Consumers to be Regulated by the UK Financial Conduct Authority

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 2/28/2022

As expected, the UK Government has announced, in its January 2022 consultation response (“the Response”), that the promotion of cryptoassets to UK consumers is to be regulated. This represents a significant step towards...more

Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update 22 March - 28 March 2019

A&O Shearman on 4/2/2019

BREXIT - Final EBA Outsourcing Guidelines: Impact on firms’ Brexit contingency plans - The EBA has published final guidelines on outsourcing (the EBA Guidelines), which will replace the guidelines issued by its predecessor,...more

Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update 10 August 2018 – 16 August 2018

A&O Shearman on 8/30/2018

BREXIT - Please see the ‘Other Developments’ section for an update on the minutes of the meeting between the Governor of the BoE and the Chancellor of the Exchequer on the June Financial Stability Report....more

Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update, 3-9 August 2018

A&O Shearman on 8/20/2018

BREXIT - Draft Short Selling (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 - On 9 August, HMT published a draft version of the Short Selling (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 and an explanatory information document....more

Tesco to Pay Compensation of £85 m and Further Fine of £129 m for Market Abuse

Jones Day on 5/29/2017

On 28 March 2017, the FCA announced that Tesco plc and Tesco Stores Limited ("Tesco") had agreed to committing market abuse in relation to a trading update published on 29 August 2014. In that update, Tesco plc had stated...more

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