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Law360, London: On 15 May 2025, the UK government published the conclusions of its cross-government review of UK sanctions implementation and...
The International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) has published a draft Application Paper on operational resilience objectives and...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published policy statement PS25/8, setting out the final regulatory fees and levies for the 2025/26...
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published its final report on the 2023–2024 Common Supervisory Action (CSA), conducted in...
The three European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the...
Financial Conduct Authority—varying permission Firms can only carry out regulated activities in the UK in accordance with their permission. Where...
Financial Ombudsman Service—remediesAwards by the FOSWhere a complaint to the Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS) is upheld, the FOS may order a...
UK Central Securities Depositories Regulation—essentialsThis Practice Note provides information on Assimilated Regulation (EU) 909/2014 (UK...
Brexit timelineOn 23 June 2016, the UK held a referendum on its membership of the EU, with a majority voting in favour of the UK leaving the EU. On 29...
Brexit legislation trackerThis Practice Note tracks the progress of UK legislation introduced as part of the legislative project associated with the...
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Unsecured employee loan agreement—company and employee—short-formThis Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name of employee borrower], of...
Sustainability glossary terms (The Chancery Lane Project)These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as...
Environmental Targets for a Limited Partnership Agreement (Stella & Flora’s Clause) (The Chancery Lane Project)This clause consists of amendments and...
Joint and several liability clause1Joint and several liability[Except for clauses [insert],] the liabilities and obligations of [insert names of...
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)This Practice Note explains the Principles for Businesses (PRIN) set down by the Financial...
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 ICOBSThe Financial Conduct Authority Handbook (FCA Handbook) includes sourcebooks to regulate the conduct of...
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 rulesBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
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 servicesThis Practice Note provides a detailed introduction to the...
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 settlementIntroduction to early settlementBorrowers are entitled, at any time, to bring regulated agreements to an end....
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—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
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 requirementsBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
What are regulated activities?Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note explains what constitutes regulated activities under the UK regulatory...
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 BusinessBackgroundAs noted in Practice Note: Insurance business transfer schemes, a regime for transferring portfolios of...
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....
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A UK association which represents closed ended investment companies, including investment trusts and venture capital trusts.
For the purposes of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000), a person or firm who has permission to carry on certain regulated activities.