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Regulatory Requirements New Rules United Kingdom

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

July – August Regulatory Round-Up

HM Treasury issued a consultation on 15 July 2025, “Regulatory Environment Pillar – Cross‑Cutting Issues,” which complements the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy, addressing systemic improvements to the...more

Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

Non-Financial Misconduct in Financial Services: Nothing is ‘Plain and Simple’

Back in 2018, a senior member of the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) stated that “non-financial misconduct is misconduct, plain and simple”. Since then, the FCA has issued multiple discussion and consultation papers,...more

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FCA Publishes Changes to the Safeguarding Regime for Payments and E-money Firms

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The FCA published a policy statement (PS25/12) setting out changes to the safeguarding regime for payments and e-money firms. The FCA consulted on the proposals in CP24/20 in September 2024. The changes to the rules are in...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

Recent Developments to UK EMIR Reporting Requirements

The regulatory landscape for derivatives reporting in the United Kingdom continues to evolve, with the Bank of England (BoE) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (together, the Regulators) actively refining the UK...more

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FCA publishes final rules on simplifying mortgage lending rules under the MRR

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published final policy statement PS25/11, accompanied by a press release, finalising the first set of reforms under the Mortgage Rule Review (MRR). These changes aim to simplify...more

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FCA publishes final rules for firms operating public offer platforms

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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

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UK regulators publish joint final policy on Loan to Income flow limit in mortgage lending

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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published joint final policy statement 11/25, finalising amendments to the PRA Rulebook and FCA Guidance (FG25/4) on the de...more

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Further easing the US-UK Divide: Extending the Buy-Side Investment Research Rules to Fund Managers

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In our previous alert Paying for Buy-Side Investment Research: New Rules Ease the US-UK Divide | Insights & Resources | Goodwin we discussed the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) final rules in its policy paper PS24/9:...more

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FCA Updates – ‘Assertive’ Supervision, and About Turns

We are now starting to see a real shift in the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Enforcement strategy following a changing of the guard in 2023, which brought in Therese Chambers and Steve Smart to be Joint Executive...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Expands Prohibitions on Providing Services to Russian Entities and Adds Investment Restrictions

On 15 December 2022 the United Kingdom announced its latest expansion of sanctions against Russia. New prohibitions were added relating to trust services, and professional and business services, and existing restrictions...more

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