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UK Listing Rules Reforms

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has today published its long-awaited reforms to the UK’s listing regime (Listing Rules), designed to reinvigorate UK capital markets and make the listing regime more internationally...more

A&O Shearman

UK FCA Financial Crime Guide consultation: more obligations, or old news?

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As financial crime compliance pressures grow, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to emphasise the significance of its Financial Crime Guide (FCG) as part of the overarching regulatory framework for financial...more

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The UK’s FCA Publishes Webpage on Operational Resilience Requirements

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has published a web page of observations aimed at helping firms prepare for new operational resilience rules due to be inforced by 31 March 2025. The relevant rules apply to banks,...more

Proskauer - Regulatory & Compliance

IFPR – FCA Publishes Final Report on Implementation

On 27 November 2023, the United Kingdom’s Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its final report (the “Report”) on its multi-firm review into firms’ progress in implementing the internal capital adequacy and risk...more

Paul Hastings LLP

Financial Sanctions—Ten Key Due Diligence Principles

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This Note is the second part of our look at regulatory expectations for sanctions compliance in the U.K. The first part of our review looked at Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) systems and controls requirements. The focus...more

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Swiss Banks Launch Crypto Offerings; GAO Addresses SEC Crypto Bulletin; UK and Hong Kong Publish Crypto Guidance; DOJ and SEC...

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Swiss Banks Launch Tokenization Pilot, Crypto Custody and Trading Services - A recent press release announced a pilot by “SIX, the Swiss National Bank (SNB) and six commercial banks” that seeks “to test, in a live...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

AI in UK Financial Services - What’s on the Horizon?

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As regulatory thinking evolves, firms must ensure that any current or planned use of AI complies with regulatory expectations. As financial services firms digest FS2/23, the joint Feedback Statement on Artificial...more

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The Financial Conduct Authority’s Review of Firms’ Approaches to Politically Exposed Persons

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) launched in September a review of the treatment of domestic politically exposed persons (PEPs) by UK-regulated financial services firms. This review will look at firms’ arrangements...more

Goodwin

Further Light on Generative AI and UK Financial Services Regulation

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In our previous alert, we noted the speech made by Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which built on the points made in a joint paper published by the Bank of England (BoE) and FCA on artificial...more

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Failure to Prevent Fraud: Reasonable Procedures and Preparing Your Organization for the New Offense

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An amendment to the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Bill (the Bill) has brought in the offense of failure to prevent fraud (Offense). Under the new Offense, an organization will be liable where a specified fraud...more

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Generative AI and Financial Services: A Recent View From the UK Regulator

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In a recent speech, Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), set out the FCA’s latest views on the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in financial services. The speech highlights many benefits but also...more

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Digital Assets Consultation Offers First Step In Regulation

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The International Organization of Securities Commissions, or IOSCO, published a consultation report in May titled "Policy Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets." Originally published by Law360 - July 11,...more

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What are the climate change reporting requirements that UK insurers are required to comply with?

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In line with the UK’s Net Zero Strategy, the UK became the first G20 country to adopt the recommendations of the Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), with effective dates rolling out for different...more

K&L Gates LLP

Challenges for Challengers – the FCA Shares Its Expectations for Financial Crime Controls at Disruptor Banks and Provides Lessons...

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The Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) expectations for challenger banks provide lessons for all in the financial service industry. Challenger banks, offering updated consumer experiences and disrupting standard practice...more

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FCA reveals common weaknesses in market abuse surveillance

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The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has identified a number of common weaknesses in market abuse surveillance arrangements at small and medium sized firms. This briefing considers these and the action firms can take to...more

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FCA’s thinly veiled warning to challenger and traditional retail banks over financial crime risk

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On 22 April 2022, the FCA published the findings of its review of financial crime controls at six relatively new and primarily digital challenger banks that all offer similar products to traditional retail banks. These six...more

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Alternative Data in ESG: the regulatory risks

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Alternative data is big business. Globally, buy-side firms spent $1.71 billion on it during 20201, over half of all hedge funds use it to make investment decisions, and it is increasingly used to validate the sustainability...more

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Blockchain Week in Review - March 2022

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...Treasury Releases National Risk Assessments - The U.S. Department of the Treasury (Treasury) issued the 2022 National Risk Assessments (NRAs) on (1) money laundering, (2) terrorist financing, and (3) proliferation...more

King & Spalding

Understanding Regulatory Trends: Digital Assets & Anti-Money Laundering

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As cryptocurrency’s market cap surpasses the $2.5 trillion mark and continues to climb, global regulators have turned their attention to understanding and addressing the risks surrounding digital assets. In recent years,...more

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[Event] Anti-Corruption London - November 2nd - 3rd, London, United Kingdom

C5's 15th International Conference on Anti-Corruption London will take place November 2 – 3, 2021 in Millennium Hotel London Knightsbridge, London. Join your peers for the IN-PERSON reunion of the legal and compliance...more

BCLP

No Place Like Home: Heightened risks for companies due to Covid-19 and remote working arrangements

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As the COVID-19 pandemic evolves so, too, does the threat of economic crime. Recent reports into fraud since the start of the pandemic highlight the extent of this threat but also confirm that the banking and finance industry...more

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Watch Out For Basis Risk - Preparing and Executing LIBOR Transition in UK PPP, Infrastructure: Government Publishes Guidance

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The Infrastructure Projects Authority (“IPA”) recently published guidance on LIBOR transition and key considerations for both UK PFI/PPP contractors and their financiers in respect of active LIBOR transition. Whilst this...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

Implementing Technology Change - Successes and Pitfalls in Financial Services

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An FCA report evaluates the chequered implementation of technology change and identifies risks and best practices to help firms better navigate this change. Of the nearly 1,000 “material incidents” reported to the UK’s...more

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Ensuring Your Compliance: Lessons From Commerzbank London

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On 17 June 2020, the London branch of Commerzbank AG (“Commerzbank London”) was fined £37,405,400 by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”). The FCA’s fine against Commerzbank emphasises a continued focus on Anti-Money...more

Hogan Lovells

Operational resilience: a new area of regulation you need to think about now

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Several high profile systems failures resulting in customers being unable to access their finances and an ever-increasing reliance on outsourcing key activities to group entities or third parties have unsurprisingly caught...more

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