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...
12/6/2024 2:10:31 PM The regulatory regime for short selling in the UK: a long time coming By James Smethurst Christopher Bernard On 11 November 2024, an updated draft of the Short Selling Regulations 2024 was laid before Parliament, accompanied by a draft...
12/2/2024 3:50:58 PM Regulating cryptoassets in the UK: a guide to the road ahead By Cyrus Pocha Claire Harrop Christopher Bernard Finally! Avid readers of Freshfields blogs might remember from our post last autumn that the UK government and financial regulators in...
11/29/2024 9:19:56 AM FCA publicity consultation – take 2: A solution to one of the FCA’s problems? By Lucy Clark The FCA yesterday published its revised proposals to publicise enforcement investigations. Reactions to the original proposals both from...
11/21/2024 9:03:41 AM When is it Wise to report non work-related conduct issues to the UK FCA? By Ali Sallaway Christopher Robinson Sophie Horton A recent UK FCA decision highlights the FCA’s expectation that, in certain circumstances, issues relating to the conduct of senior...