Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation.
Key developments in July 2022: ...more
8/11/2022
/ EU ,
European Banking Authority (EBA) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Services Act ,
Investment ,
Liquidity ,
MiFIR ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
SFDR ,
Sustainable Finance
On 25 July 2022, Commission Delegated Regulation ((EU) 2022/1288) (“SFDR RTS”) which supplements the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation ((EU) 2019/2088) ("SFDR") and Regulation on the establishment of a framework to...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
2/3/2022
/ Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) ,
Cryptoassets ,
EU ,
EU Market Abuse Regulation (EU MAR) ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Investment ,
MiFID II ,
Money Laundering ,
Packaged Retail And Insurance-Based Investment Products (PRIIPS) ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Structured Financial Products ,
UCITS ,
UK ,
UK Brexit
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
12/6/2021
/ Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) ,
Environmental Social & Governance (ESG) ,
EU ,
European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) ,
Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) ,
Financial Markets ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Investment ,
MiFID II ,
MiFIR ,
Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
SFDR ,
UK
On 26 November 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its third policy statement (PS21/17) setting out its final rules to introduce its Investment Firms Prudential Regime (“IFPR”). ...more
Yesterday, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a discussion paper (DP21/4) (the “Discussion Paper”) seeking initial views on new sustainability disclosure requirements for asset managers and FCA-regulated...more
What is the IFPR?
The new UK Investment Firms Prudential Regime (“IFPR”) will come into force on 1 January 2022 and will apply to UK investment firms authorised under the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (“MiFID”)...more
10/1/2021
/ Capital Requirements ,
Financial Services Industry ,
Investment ,
Investment Firms ,
MiFID ,
Policy Statement ,
Regulatory Agenda ,
Regulatory Requirements ,
Remuneration ,
Risk Management ,
Rulemaking Process ,
UK
On 26 July 2021, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published its second policy statement (PS21/9) (“PS2”) in relation to the UK Investment Firms Prudential Regime (“IFPR”). PS2 is the second of a series of policy...more