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Latest Financial Services News
A round-up of financial services developments, including (among other things) BoE Market Notice 11 sets out changes to collateral eligibility in the...
The Irish Presidency of the Council of the EU has published its programme for 1 July 2026 to 31 December 2026, outlining its priorities and direction....
A round-up of financial services developments, including (among other things) FCA CEO outlines ‘lessons learned’ after consultation on publicising...
This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA publishes update on plans for new MMF rules; Commission adopts delegated...
As part of a wider piece of work examining the advertising of unregulated investments, the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA) upheld complaints...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
This Practice Note explores key elements of the UK regime for money market funds (MMFs) that is derived from Regulation (EU) 2017/1131 (EU MMF...
The Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR) and the Approved Persons Regime (APR) are the UK regulators’ frameworks for regulating...
This Practice Note provides an overview of the motor finance sector, including the work that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has undertaken to...
A structured product is a hybrid investment product, which may be more or less complex, containing a combination of two or more disparate elements,...
The principal legislative frameworks that govern the regulation of debt capital markets in the EU and the UK are set out below. Certain EU legislative...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
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This Precedent memorandum sets out a ‘specimen’ group-wide dealing policy published by The Chartered Governance Institute (formerly known as ICSA: The...
These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as part of its climate change glossary, provide definitions...
[Insert addressee details]Dear [insert name][It is our understanding that [insert name of prospective employee] [was an employee of yours between the...
1Introduction1.1The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation authority (PRA) (together the Regulators) require firms that are...
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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
Hybrid funds
Funds which use common features from both closed-ended funds and open-ended funds may also have a lock-in period.
Opt-out of pensions scheme
A regulated activity whereby an individual decides to opt-out or decline to join a final salary or money-purchase occupational pension scheme of which they are a current member or which they are, or at the end of the waiting period will become, eligible to join in favour of an individual pension contract
Transaction
The purchase, sale, subscription or underwiting of a particular investment
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