07 Feb, 2024 FCA enforcement - Not the only show in town By Thomas Clark Sharon Grennan We have published an article on recent UK financial services enforcement and emerging trends. There has been a decline in the number and...
06 Feb, 2024 UK PRA updates its enforcement policies – but will this mean faster investigations and a change in penalty levels? By Thomas Clark Sharon Grennan Following a consultation last year, the Bank of England policy statement (PS01/24) introduces changes to the Prudential Regulation...
10 Oct, 2023 UK Court of Appeal clarifies roles of Courts and FOS in judicial review proceedings By Thomas Clark Christine Simpson Usama Khalab In the recent decision of R (Assurant General Insurance Limited) v the Financial Services Ombudsman (FOS) & Ors [2023] EWCA Civ 1049, the...
14 Apr, 2023 UK Financial Promotions Regime to Extend to ‘Qualifying Cryptoassets’ By Thomas Clark Christine Simpson Greg King Laila Pourdad +1 more... Show less On 27 March 2023 the UK Treasury published a draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) (Amendment) Order...
23 Feb, 2023 English High Court finds no copyright can subsist in the Bitcoin File Format By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Tom Hingley Tom Gardner +2 more... Show less In its recent judgment in Wright and others v. BTC Core and others [2023] EWHC 222 (Ch), the English High Court had cause to consider...
20 Dec, 2022 UK digital assets disputes in 2022 and what to expect in 2023 By Simon Orton Thomas Clark Emma Probyn George Ho +1 more... Show less 2022 has been a turbulent year for the digital assets sphere. While the industry is under harsher scrutiny than ever before following a...
10 Aug, 2022 A flexible approach to Non-Fungible Tokens in the English Courts By Thomas Clark Emma Probyn Christine Simpson Two recent cases have illustrated the continued willingness of the English Courts to adapt existing rules to deal with claims before them...
08 Jun, 2022 Does history repeat itself in market misconduct? By Simon Orton Thomas Clark Sharon Grennan The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) believes so. Or at least the recent FMSB report indicates that there are common broad...