Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Wholesale Markets
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its 2024 report, along with a press release, on the quality and use of data, showcasing significant increase in data use by authorities. The report covers...more
Since December 2024, cryptoassets and related services are regulated in the European Union by the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA). Although the regulation provides a comprehensive set of rules for issuers of...more
The Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum (the Forum) has published the Regulatory Initiatives Forum Grid (the Grid), with the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) also updating its webpage. The previous Grid was...more
Major Crypto Exchanges Launch New Products, Obtain Foreign Licenses - According to a recent company blog post, a major U.S. cryptocurrency exchange has launched a new staking product that will allow clients residing in...more
The consultation paper also includes a discussion chapter about further reform, either now or in the future, to make the rules better suited to the range of U.K. licensed firms and their clients. This includes in...more
Rachel Reeves, the U.K. Chancellor has set out a package of reforms in her Mansion House speech. The reforms aim to drive growth and competitiveness in financial services. Ms. Reeves stated that the regulatory changes...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published two consultation papers on proposed guidelines under the EU Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation, one on reverse solicitation and the other on the classification of...more
Of particular note this week in the EU, the Council adopted the legislative package to strengthen market data transparency which includes changes to the EU’s trading rules on market data, payment for order flow and commodity...more
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HM Treasury has published a response to its consultation on cryptoasset regulation, setting out its final proposals for the U.K.'s cryptoasset regulatory regime. The U.K. plans to make cryptoassets a new category of...more
The European Union’s proposed Markets in Crypto-assets (MiCA) regulation, which includes new regulations for the classification, issuance and admission to trading of cryptoassets, as well as for the provision of services on...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a consultation paper on proposed guidance on the regulatory perimeter for multilateral trading facilities and on possible future changes to smaller trading venues' regulatory...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a consultation on proposed guidelines on standard forms, formats and templates to apply for permission to operate distributed ledger technology for market...more
The U.K. government has published the much anticipated Financial Services and Markets Bill. Following its exit from the EU, the U.K. has undertaken a fundamental review of how financial regulation policy and rules should be...more
The EU has published in the Official Journal of the European Union its Regulation on a pilot regime for market infrastructures based on distributed ledger technology. The pilot regime will permit certain DLT market...more
Following the Queen's speech yesterday, the government has published a briefing pack setting out details of the bills that it intends to introduce, including the so-called Brexit Freedoms Bill as well as key legislation...more
FCA regulatory sandbox: new application guide and now always open The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a new guide to assist firms making a regulatory sandbox application. The FCA has also updated its webpage...more
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This week, among other highlights, Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures, BIS Innovation Hub, International Monetary Fund and the World Bank issued a joint report for the G20 on the use of Central Bank Digital...more
A report from the Taskforce on Innovation, Growth and Regulatory Reform provides recommendations for how the UK can “re-imagine” its approach to regulation post-Brexit. On 16 June 2021, the Taskforce on Innovation,...more
This week’s update includes, among other key items, the FSB’s report on its evaluation of the effects of too-big-to-fail reforms for systemically important banks. This report, alongside the FSB’s report on Covid-19 support...more
Brexit - FCA provides information on the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) On 3 March, the FCA published new webpages providing information on the TPR. Firstly, the FCA published a webpage on how it will supervise firms...more
26 February - HM Treasury published a report setting out the findings of the Kalifa Review of UK FinTech. The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Handbook Notice 85, which sets out changes to the FCA Handbook...more
An order was published on December 23, 2020, amending the order of September 5, 2007, relating to the nonfinancial activities that French investment firms may conduct. As a matter of principle, and similarly to credit...more
The European Union’s financial regulatory regime for third-country access in many sectors relies on a framework of “equivalence,” whereby institutions based in approved non-EU countries with similar standards may have varying...more