5/7/2025 8:18:51 AM FCA pauses the extension of SDR to portfolio management By Elisabeth Overland Emily Smith Daniel Tichbi On 30 April 2025, the FCA announced that it has paused its plans to extend the Sustainability Disclosure Requirements (SDR) and...
4/22/2025 12:54:30 PM Reforming fund regulation in the UK: HM Treasury and FCA proposals for regulating alternative investment fund managers By Emma Rachmaninov Christopher Chan Christopher Bernard Daniel Tichbi +1 more... Show less The future for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) in the UK became a little bit clearer on 7 April 2025 when HM Treasury...
4/4/2025 12:31:13 PM Motor Finance hearing in the Supreme Court (1 – 3 April 2025): quick summary By Craig Montgomery Lucy Clark Sunil Singh Janais Bartholomew Eden Werner +2 more... Show less The UK Supreme Court has been hearing the landmark case of Johnson v FirstRand Bank Limited[1]this week and the hearing finished...
4/3/2025 12:20:12 PM Regulating regulators – The UK FCA’s first fine imposed on a Recognised Investment Exchange By Piers Reynolds James Smethurst Jermaine Francis Sharon Grennan +1 more... Show less In its first enforcement decision relating to a Recognised Investment Exchange, the FCA has published a final notice and imposed a...
3/21/2025 3:30:37 PM The High Court affirms the FCA’s wide discretion in exercising its powers of redress By Piers Reynolds Jack Helyar Sharon Tong At a Glance On 7 March 2025, the High Court dismissed an application for judicial review by the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Fair...
3/20/2025 11:52:57 AM UK Government goes full throttle on its growth agenda: New action plan targets financial services regulators By Michael Raffan Elisabeth Overland Tricia Moffat Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 17 March 2025, the UK Government published a policy paper and accompanying press release outlining a new approach to ensure regulators...
3/19/2025 8:24:57 PM The FCA’s review of private market valuation practices: what it means for firms By Emma Rachmaninov Christopher Bernard Jermaine Francis On 5 March 2025, the FCA published the findings from its multi-firm review of valuation processes for private market assets. In this blog...
3/13/2025 12:06:32 PM FCA publicity consultation: Back to where we started? By Lucy Clark The FCA yesterday announced that it will not be pursuing much of its controversial proposed policy on publicising investigations (which...
3/13/2025 10:14:12 AM D&I in Financial Services - FCA and PRA walk back diversity and inclusion rule reforms By David Mendel Sophie Cameron Amelia Lamp The chiefs of the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have announced by letter that they are...
2/6/2025 12:15:44 PM FCA publicity consultation: ‘How not to regulate’ By Lucy Clark The House of Lord’s Financial Services Regulation Committee has today published its report on the FCA’s publicity consultation, Naming...
2/5/2025 2:13:42 PM UK FCA sets out key expectations of payments firms in “Dear CEO” letter By Claire Harrop Janice Leung Christy Lee On 3 February 2025, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a Dear CEO letter to payments firms that are supervised by the...
12/19/2024 9:46:18 AM Secret Commissions – Supreme Court to hear appeal By Emma Probyn Benjamin Ng Lucy Clark The Court of Appeal’s decision On 25 October 2024, the Court of Appeal handed down its judgment in three linked appeals – Johnson v...