The U.S. Department of State, the U.S. Department of the Treasury, the U.S. Department of Commerce, and the U.S. Department of Labor are issuing this advisory to highlight growing risks to American businesses and individuals...more
UK-EU MoU on regulatory cooperation in financial services - HM Treasury has announced that technical discussions on the text of the memorandum of understanding (MoU) on UK-EU regulatory cooperation in financial services have...more
Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No 2) Regulations 2020 - The Sanctions and Anti-Money Laundering Act 2018 (Commencement No 2) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1535) were made on 14 December 2020. ...more
AML/CTF supervision: HM Treasury annual report - The Bank of England (BoE) has published the Financial Stability Report for August 2020 and the financial policy summary and record of the meetings of its Financial Policy...more
Recent regulatory developments of interest to all financial institutions. Includes COVID-19 and Brexit-related updates, amendments to the list of high-risk third countries in MLD4, and more....more
Spring 2020 Budget: key financial services announcements - The Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, has delivered the Spring 2020 Budget. The Budget includes a number of measures of interest to financial services...more
The Independent Evaluation Office (the Bank of England's independent review body) has published its evaluation of the BoE's approach to concurrent stress testing of the U.K. banking system. It concluded that overall the BoE...more
The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has recently published its latest Financial Stability Report (Report). The format of the Report is that the FPC assesses the outlook for financial stability by...more
In This Issue: - UK: New Regulators; New Powers - So You Want to be a U.S. Mutual Fund Manager - The New German Rules on High Frequency Trading - Marketing and Distributing Your Fund in the Middle East:...more