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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
A new edition of the Regulatory Initiatives Grid, which sets out details of current and planned regulatory initiatives for all the regulators affecting the financial services sector, has been published. It includes details of...more
As the market for stablecoins continues to evolve in sophistication and scale, financial institutions in the UK and EU are increasingly exploring whether and how to engage with them, whether for treasury, payments, settlement...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
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
The UK’s new Labour government unveiled a package of new workers’ rights yesterday, with wide-ranging ramifications for employers. Whilst the most significant measures will not be implemented until 2026 at the earliest,...more
Many governments are grappling with the question of how to regulate artificial intelligence to ensure it is adopted safely and used responsibly without hampering innovation. Governments have generally indicated similar...more
On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England published a discussion paper on its approach to innovation in money and payments (the Discussion Paper). A recurring theme is the Bank of England’s focus on the potential use of...more
On 22 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England published their strategic approaches to regulating AI in response to the UK government’s July 2022 AI...more
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
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
April 11, 2023- Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks on the global macroeconomy, sovereign debt, Ukraine and multilateral development banks at a press conference as part of the 2023 IMF-World Bank Annual...more
In the discussion paper, the UK financial supervisory authorities have not provided a new legal framework or their intended future approaches for regulating the use of AI and machine learning in financial services. However,...more
Financial Services Act 2021 (Commencement No 1) Regulations 2021 The Financial Services Act 2021 (Commencement No 1) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/671) have been published. SI 2021/671 is a commencement regulation made under the...more
SMCR extension: SI extending implementation date made - The Bank of England and Financial Services Act 2016 (Commencement No. 6 and Transitional Provisions) (Amendment) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/929) have been made....more
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) aims to guide regulated firms on its expectations of their cyber resiliency. In 2018, the FCA warned regulated firms of the risks of outdated IT systems and the lack of effective cyber...more
In a paper published last month,[i] the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) set out various cybersecurity insights gleaned from the work of cyber coordination groups (“CCGs”) the regulator established in 2017. The...more
July 7, 2016, saw the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) publish fresh guidance in order to clarify the requirements which apply to the financial services firms it regulates when outsourcing to the cloud. When the FCA...more