The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published policy statement PS25/24 finalising its revised approach to the ancillary activities test (AAT). The AAT determines when non financial firms trading commodity derivatives...more
HM Treasury (HMT) has published a draft statutory instrument (SI), the Over the Counter Derivatives (Intragroup Transactions) Regulations 2026, for technical comment, alongside a policy paper. The proposed Regulations aim to...more
The UK FSMA 2000 (Markets in Financial Instruments) Amendment Regulations 2025 have been laid. The regulations extend the UK Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) powers of direction to a new category of derivative, referred to...more
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published Handbook Notice 129 which sets out changes to the classes of derivatives subject to the derivatives trading obligation (DTO), following policy statement PS25/2 published...more
With the date for the United Kingdom to leave the European Union rapidly approaching, several recent developments concerning derivatives (both legal and political) are likely to be of interest to UK and EU27 counterparties....more