There's been a flurry of regulatory activity in the UK and Europe over the past few weeks. Here's a look at the highlights. The EU has renewed its determination that the solvency regime for US-headquartered insurers and...more
In March 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) released two documents with its updated supervisory approach for the asset management and alternatives sector: the FCA’s 2024/25 Business Plan (the Business Plan), and a...more
Financial Markets Infrastructure: The Bank of England published a speech by Sasha Mills, Executive Director, Financial Market Infrastructure, on operational resilience and its expectations of financial market infrastructures...more
On 30 October 2023, the UK government published its response to the consultation and call for evidence on the future financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets, whereby HM Treasury has confirmed its final...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK Payment Systems Regulator consulting on a specific direction to Faster Payments participants on its new APP fraud reimbursement requirement; the U.S. Federal...more
Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the private funds and investment management...more
The NY Climate Week conference took place during the week of 18 September 2023, bringing together international leaders from business and governments. During the conference the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial...more
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
This week, the FCA published four engagement papers on the new UK prospectus regime, setting out proposed changes across four areas - admission to regulated markets, further issuances of equities, protected forward-looking...more
In March 2023, the UK government launched a consultation on the future regulatory regime for environmental, social and governance (ESG) ratings providers. These providers compile, package and sell information to market...more
The consultation considers what a potential regulatory regime would look like, and its proposed scope. On 30 March 2023, HM Treasury published a consultation on regulating ESG ratings providers, which ties in with and...more
31 January - The European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) published a joint consultation paper (JC 2022 76) on the system established by the ESAs for the exchange of information relevant to the assessment of the fitness...more
With a new operational resilience framework in force in the UK and similar reforms proposed in the EU and the US, we examine how the regimes compare and their practical impact on financial services firms....more
The FCA emphasised the increasing prevalence of providers and the potential harm from lack of regulation in this area. In June 2022, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) issued a Feedback Statement in response to a...more
IOSCO this week published a consultation on measures to address risks from digitalisation of retail marketing and distribution. Here in the UK, the FCA launched its own a consultation on strengthening financial promotion...more
After a bumper end to 2021, the new year has started relatively quietly. This week saw the PRA publish Dear CEO letters to UK deposit takers and international banks setting out its 2022 priorities and the PSR published its...more
The association noted that regulators could provide market participants with much-needed additional trust in ESG ratings and data. On 23 November 2021, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO)...more
The Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a set of revised outsourcing principles for regulated entities. IOSCO is an international policy forum for securities regulators and...more
On 26 July 2021, the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published a consultation report (the Report) that proposes a set of recommendations to mitigate risks flowing from activities of...more
SMCR for FMIs: HM Treasury consultation HM Treasury has published a consultation paper proposing a Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR or SM&CR) for financial market infrastructures (FMIs). The consultation closes...more
Markets in Financial Instruments (Capital Markets) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 The Markets in Financial Instruments (Capital Markets) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/774) have been published, together with an...more
COVID-19: FCA statement on regulatory treatment of Recovery Loan Scheme - The FCA has published a statement on the regulatory treatment of the UK Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS), which was launched on 6 April 2021 as part of the...more
Draft Financial Markets and Insolvency (Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 A draft version of the Financial Markets and Insolvency (Transitional Provision) (EU Exit) (Amendment) Regulations 2021...more
On March 25, 2021, the Alternative Reference Rates Committee (the “ARRC”) issued supplemental guidance to its recommended hardwired fallback language for U.S. dollar LIBOR denominated syndicated and bilateral business loans....more
Brexit - Please see the Other Developments section for the MoU agreed between the ECB, FCA and BoE on post-Brexit supervisory cooperation, effective from 1 January. ...more