In early May 2025 the Mansion House II Accord (the Accord) revealed that seventeen of the largest workplace pension providers in the UK...
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Earlier this year the Government published the draft Companies (Directors' Remuneration and Audit) (Amendment) Regulations 2025 (the...
The recent fallout in global markets as a result of US President Trump’s trade tariff announcements may recall, to the minds of UK...
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...
In the last 6 months, we have seen a range of important cases and developments before the Courts in the UK affecting financial...
On 24 April 2025, the FCA released a consultation paper CP 25/10 on the definition of capital for FCA investment firms. The FCA says it...
On 29 April 2025, HM Treasury published a draft statutory instrument in near-final form which will introduce a regulatory regime for...
The UK’s advertising regulator, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), recently published its 2024 Annual Report (here). This...
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Freshfields sponsors TheCityUK International Conference and co-writes report on “Foreign direct investment and national security regimes:...
The future for alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs) in the UK became a little bit clearer on 7 April 2025 when HM Treasury...
The majority of the consumer protection provisions of the landmark Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act (the DMCCA) went live...
The UK Supreme Court has been hearing the landmark case of Johnson v FirstRand Bank Limited[1]this week and the hearing finished...