6/23/2025 3:19:34 PM How (not) to regulate for growth: House of Lords committee report on the UK regulators’ secondary international competitiveness and growth objective By Cyrus Pocha Emily Smith Fran Kaehr On 13 June 2025, the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee (the Committee) published its report on the secondary...
6/19/2025 8:20:18 PM FRC launches new UK Stewardship Code 2026 By Emma Rachmaninov Elisabeth Overland Emily Smith Myah Popat +1 more... Show less The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) describes the updates to the Code as “evolutionary and not revolutionary”. The focus is on a move...
6/19/2025 1:22:26 PM UK Supreme Court refuses permission to appeal strike out of bifurcated representative actions in shareholder claims By Sarah Parkes Emma Probyn Maisie Stewart Elke Kendall Anoushka Nightingale Feon Wong +3 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court has declined to grant permission to appeal the strike out of representative actions brought by shareholders against...
6/16/2025 10:57:26 AM Nine years of the ERA Pledge By Ashley Jones The Equal Representation in Arbitration (ERA) Pledge (the Pledge) recently celebrated its ninth anniversary. The Pledge, established in...
6/13/2025 10:13:27 AM Resolving uncertainty - Government confirms legislation to be introduced regarding Section 37 confirmations By Dawn Heath Jane Wolstenholme Amelia Lamp On 5 June, the Department for Work and Pensions announced plans to introduce legislation which would seek to address the issues and...
6/13/2025 9:29:29 AM PISCES Q&A – key features of the world’s first regulated crossover market By Tom Godwin Richard Ho Jennifer McCarthy The FCA has now published its final rules for prospective operators of the new PISCES platforms (Private Intermittent Securities and...
6/12/2025 3:56:15 PM FCA proposes rules for stablecoin issuers and cryptoasset custodians By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Borja Ruiz De Gopegui Noah Schmidt +1 more... Show less On 28 May 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation setting out its proposed rules for the two newly regulated...
6/11/2025 3:47:26 PM Navigating AML Risks in M&A: Implications of the New EU AML Package By Patrick Cichy Alexander Glos Jan Biermann Jan Struckmann Sara Dietz +2 more... Show less Anti-money laundering (AML) risk is no longer a peripheral concern in M&A – it’s a central deal issue. As enforcement ramps up across...
6/11/2025 9:52:42 AM FCA consults on proposed prudential rules for cryptoasset firms that issue qualifying stablecoins and safeguard qualifying cryptoassets By Claire Harrop Cyrus Pocha Borja Ruiz De Gopegui Noah Schmidt +1 more... Show less On 28 May 2025, the FCA published a consultation paper outlining its proposed prudential rules for firms that issue qualifying...
6/6/2025 4:37:07 PM The UK’s Strategic Defence Review 2025: Risks, Readiness & Regulatory considerations By Kate Gough Alex Potter Julian Pritchard Robert Colvin Olivia Valner Remony Vials +3 more... Show less In the context of increasing global instability the UK’s Strategic Defence Review (SDR), published this week, highlights the UK...
6/6/2025 11:56:10 AM Market volatility and UK defined contribution pensions: future risks for employers? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee In our previous blog, we considered the risks under the current legal regime in the UK to employers, trustees and providers arising from...
6/6/2025 8:28:57 AM Tax matters: Trump 2.0 -the intersection of US tax and trade policy By Alison Dickie The second Trump administration has made numerous announcements on trade and tariffs, but US tax policy is increasingly woven into the...