6/30/2025 10:41:24 AM Trading for Growth: Unpacking the UK’s New Trade Strategy By Lloyd Rees Last Thursday, the UK Government unveiled its new Trade Strategy (the Trade Strategy). It follows on from the publication earlier that...
6/25/2025 9:10:09 AM The UK’s New Industrial Strategy: A 10-Year Vision for Growth By Lloyd Rees On Monday, the UK Government published its long-awaited new Industrial Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy is a 10-year plan to...
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 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...
6/13/2025 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...
6/11/2025 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 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...
6/4/2025 1:29:29 PM Refund of pension scheme surplus: a clearer picture slowly emerges By Dawn Heath Jane Wolstenholme For many employers, one of the key provisions of the imminent Pension Schemes Bill is a much anticipated relaxation of the regime...
5/30/2025 11:03:33 AM Increasing UK Pension Scheme Investments in Private Markets -opportunities and challenges for private capital providers By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Jane Wolstenholme Antonio Laino +1 more... Show less In early May 2025 the Mansion House II Accord (the Accord) revealed that seventeen of the largest workplace pension providers in the UK...
5/28/2025 1:36:41 PM In case you missed it – the reporting requirements for PLC directors’ remuneration have changed By Alice Greenwell David Mendel Helena de Guise Earlier this year the Government published the draft Companies (Directors' Remuneration and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the...
5/27/2025 11:56:42 AM Market volatility and defined contribution pensions: a new dawn for mass claims? By Andrew Murphy Gareth Davies Christy Lee The recent fallout in global markets as a result of US President Trump’s trade tariff announcements may recall, to the minds of UK...
5/27/2025 10:40:17 AM Taming the “Wild West”: UK Government leads BNPL into the regulatory stable By Cyrus Pocha Emma Probyn Craig Dewar Christine Simpson Tricia Moffat +2 more... Show less The UK Government has saddled up to bring order to what it terms the “wild-west” of Buy Now Pay Later (BNPL). For years, BNPL has...