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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 Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has secured the conviction of Daniel Pugh for operating a £1.3m Ponzi scheme through the Imperial Investment...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its final draft implementing technical standards (ITS) on the supervisory benchmarking of credit...
The Bank of England (BoE) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) have published a policy statement finalising amendments to UK EMIR Trade Repository...
MLex: A division is emerging in the UK financial services industry over the future of digital money, after Bank of England (BoE) governor Andrew...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) updated its UK EMIR reporting guidance to include final validation rules and XML schemas supporting minor...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA)This Practice Note provides an introduction to the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act (FCPA) and issues related...
Key dates for Financial Services—horizon scannerThis Practice Note contains a list of key future developments and dates for financial services lawyers...
Complaints against UK financial services regulatorsBackground to the Complaints SchemePart 6 of the Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) requires...
Cryptoassets for Dispute Resolution lawyersThis Practice Note on cryptoassets (a form of digital asset) for dispute resolution lawyers explains what...
SM&CR—essentials for benchmark administratorsNOTE: On 15 July 2025, the government announced the Leeds Reforms, which include plans to streamline the...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
Dealing Procedures ManualThis precedent memorandum sets out the procedures to be followed by a listed company and its subsidiaries in relation to...
Precedent notice for use with exempt financial promotions to high net worth individuals and self-certified sophisticated investorsWarning: The content...
Financial services outsourcing agreement (intra group)This Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert name of party] a company incorporated in...
Specimen Dealing CodeThis Precedent is a memorandum that sets out the details of the ‘specimen’ dealing code. The specimen dealing code is the product...
Letter from PDMR to PCA—continuing obligations under Article 19 Market Abuse Regulation[On headed notepaper of PDMR]Strictly private and...
Latest Financial Services Q&As
Featured Financial Services content
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...
CMA identifies Monzo's breaches of Retail Banking Market Investigation Order and secures agreement for corrective action
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified several breaches by Monzo Bank Limited (Monzo) of the Retail Banking Market Investigation...
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBS
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBSThe Financial Conduct Authority Handbook (FCA Handbook) includes sourcebooks to regulate the conduct of...
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...
FCA client money rules
FCA client money rulesBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)This Practice Note explores non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) and comments on investment powers, key investor information...
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial services
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial servicesThis Practice Note provides a detailed introduction to the...
Debt sale and purchase agreements
Debt sale and purchase agreementsThe debt sale and purchase market is an important way for lenders and debt sellers to reduce balance sheet liability....
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlement
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlementIntroduction to early settlementBorrowers are entitled, at any time, to bring regulated agreements to an end....
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)?
FCA Handbook—introduction
FCA Handbook—introductionBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentials
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
Credit limits
Credit limitsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the rules that apply to credit limits. A borrower will be set a credit limit on the maximum...
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirements
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirementsBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
What are regulated activities?
What are regulated activities?Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note explains what constitutes regulated activities under the UK regulatory...
MiFID and non-MiFID business
MiFID and non-MiFID businessThis Practice Note summarises what MiFID business is as the term is defined in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
Part VII Transfer of Banking Business
Part VII Transfer of Banking BusinessBackgroundAs noted in Practice Note: Insurance business transfer schemes, a regime for transferring portfolios of...
Financial Services Act 2012 [Archived]
Financial Services Act 2012The Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) received Royal Assent on 19 December 2012 and went into effect on 1 April 2013....
Associated legal terms
Non-exempt activities order
The Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 (Non-Exempt Activities) Order 2001 is secondary legislation which contains a list of the activities to which the exemption to the general prohibition does not apply.
Offshore income gains (OIGs)
A type of capital gain taxable as income which arises on the disposal of an interest in a reporting-fund'>non-reporting fund.
Part XX exemption
An exemption which enables professional firms regulated by designated professional bodies to carry on exempt regulated activities.
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