4/25/2025 9:59:34 AM Re-examining the UK’s national security & investment regime By Martin McElwee Cara Carr Lloyd Rees Freshfields sponsors TheCityUK International Conference and co-writes report on “Foreign direct investment and national security regimes:...
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...
4/11/2025 7:47:23 AM German Election #6: The coalition agreement of the new German government - what’s in it for financial services? By Jan Struckmann Theresa Kreft Daniel Klingenbrunn Alicia Hildner Hans-Ulrich Klöppel Alexander Glos +3 more... Show less On April 9, 2025, the CDU, CSU, and SPD parties unveiled their coalition agreement, setting out the plans of the new government for the...
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...
3/31/2025 3:46:57 PM The FCA’s plans for the next 5 years: rebalancing risk, supporting growth By Michael Raffan Noah Schmidt Jessica Frampton Christopher Bernard +1 more... Show less On 25 March 2025, the FCA published its new strategy for the next five years, with the stated goals of “deepening trust, rebalancing...
3/28/2025 3:54:11 PM The future of open banking: UK, EU, and US perspectives By Claire Harrop David Sewell Daniel Klingenbrunn Christopher Bernard Katrina Paliukenas +2 more... Show less Open banking promises to unlock innovation and empower customers by enabling financial information to be shared between traditional banks...
3/28/2025 2:54:18 PM The FCA’s Consumer Duty rule review: a spring clean, but no overhaul By Michael Raffan Christopher Bernard Daniel Tichbi One oft-criticised feature of the UK financial services regime is the complexity and the volume of the FCA’s handbook of rules and...
3/26/2025 9:27:56 AM A Growing Branch of Supply Chain Risk: the Timber Regulations By Matthew Bruce Tahleel Lateef Charlotte Dunn Introduction In recent years, multinational corporations have been under growing regulatory pressure to manage the risks which arise from...
3/24/2025 8:26:55 PM New sanctions legislation targeting sanctions circumvention – what does this mean for financial institutions? By Xiao Zhang Alicia Hildner Alexander Glos Following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022, the EU has drastically tightened sanctions against Russia. Preventing the circumvention...
3/20/2025 12:10:21 PM The CMA announces enforcement priorities with weeks to go before the DMCCA’s new consumer regime comes into force By Andrew Austin Cat Greenwood-Smith Kate Collister Honor May +1 more... Show less With just over two weeks to go until most of the Digital Markets Competition and Consumers Act 2024’s (DMCCA) consumer protection...
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...