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Our Financial Services Enforcement Database includes hundreds of FCA, PRA and PSR enforcement actions. Searches can be filtered by multiple criteria such as rule breach, saving lawyers time and money.
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Our resources enable customers to stay updated with key developments. Materials include details on the rules and guidance, analysis, sectoral implications, a timeline, and checklists on key compliance issues.
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Our current awareness offering includes daily, weekly and intraday alerts. We have a suite of comprehensive horizon scanners and timelines on many topics, enabling lawyers to stay on top of regulatory changes
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Sustainable finance and ESG are becoming increasingly important for financial institutions and their lawyers. Our practical guidance, summaries, timelines and toolkits help practitioners navigate this complex area
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Latest Financial Services News
The European Commission has published a set of frequently asked questions (FAQs) to facilitate the implementation of the EU taxonomy for sustainable...
The European Payments Council (EPC) has published its version 4.0 of the Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA) request-to-pay (SRTP) scheme rulebook, set...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a speech by its executive director of markets and international, Sarah Pritchard, on the...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has issued a consultation paper CP24/25to propose changes to the way it will raise regulatory fees and collect...
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced changes to the Eurosystem collateral framework to improve harmonisation, flexibility, and risk...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
Key dates for Financial Services—horizon scannerThis Practice Note contains a list of key future developments and dates for financial services lawyers...
Coronavirus (COVID-19)—key financial services issuesThe economic shock caused by the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic and the exceptional measures...
Consumer credit—essentialsOn 1 April 2014, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) assumed responsibility for consumer credit regulation from the Office...
The FCA Consumer Duty–application to pension providers and pension schemesThe Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty places an increased...
Supranational approach to the regulation of cryptoassetsThis Practice Note focuses on the approach taken by supranational bodies such as the...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Model discretionary investment management agreementThe model discretionary investment management agreement can be found on the Investment...
Specimen Dealing CodeThis Precedent is a memorandum that sets out the details of the ‘specimen’ dealing code. The specimen dealing code is the product...
Specimen Group-Wide Dealing PolicyThis precedent memorandum sets out a ‘specimen’ group-wide dealing policy published by The Chartered Governance...
Financial services outsourcing agreement (intra group)This Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert name of party] a company incorporated in...
Latest Financial Services Q&As
Featured Financial Services content
The Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)
The Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)This Practice Note provides information on the role of the nominated officer and the Money Laundering...
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)This Practice Note explains the Principles for Businesses (PRIN) set down by the Financial...
Second charge mortgage regime
Second charge mortgage regimeSecond charge mortgages definedA regulated second charge mortgage is a loan secured on a borrower’s property that is used...
Financial Conduct Authority—objectives and principles
Financial Conduct Authority—objectives and principlesThe role of the FCAThe Financial Conduct authority (FCA) forms part of the regulatory structure...
Accepting deposits
Accepting depositsBackground to the regulated activity of accepting depositsUnder section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA...
What is electronic money?
What is electronic money?BREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Fund management—Cayman Islands—Q&A guide
Fund management—Cayman Islands—Q&A guideThis Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to fund management in Cayman Islands published...
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBS
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBSBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)This Practice Note explores non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) and comments on investment powers, new rules on NURS...
Complying with the collective investment schemes sourcebook (COLL)
Complying with the collective investment schemes sourcebook (COLL)The Financial Conduct Authority’s Collective Investment Schemes Sourcebook (COLL) is...
Different types of short selling
Different types of short sellingShort selling: the two key typesRegulation (EU) 236/2012 (OJ L 86/1) (the EU Short Selling Regulation) came into force...
Where a lender is required to send notices of sums in arrears on a fixed sum loan under section 86B of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (CCA 1974) and the customer clears the arrears but leaves default sums outstanding, is the lender required to keep sending subsequent notices of sums in arrears under CCA 1974, s 86B(5)(b)?
What are regulated activities?
What are regulated activities?Under the general prohibition a person cannot carry out a regulated activity, or purport to carry out a regulated...
Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs)
Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs)BREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
Regulated activities relating to dormant assets
Regulated activities relating to dormant assetsBackground to regulated activities relating to handling dormant assetsUnder section 19 of the Financial...
UK regulation of payment services providers—essentials
UK regulation of payment services providers—essentialsScope of this Practice NoteThe Payment Services Regulations 2017, SI 2017/752 (PSRs 2017)...
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentials
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
Complaints handling by financial services firms
Complaints handling by financial services firmsCORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): The FCA has issued a statement setting out its expectations on complaints...
Associated legal terms
Appointed representative
This is a type of exempt person under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000, s 39.
Managing investments
This is the regulated activity of managing assets belonging to another where discretion is exercised and the assets are a security or contractually based investment (article 37 of the Regulated Activities Order).
Operational resilience
The ability of firms and the financial system as a whole to absorb and adapt to shocks, rather than contribute to them.
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