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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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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
A round-up of financial services developments....
A round-up of financial services developments....
This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA and SRA issue warning to CMCs and law firms over motor finance commission...
A round-up of financial services developments, including (among other things) FCA and SRA issue warning to CMCs and law firms over motor finance...
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has updated General Licence INT/2025/7328184 to include definitions of the Welsh Revenue...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
Prospectus Regulation Rules trackerTracker overviewThis Prospectus Regulation rules (PRR) tracker presents a summary of recent changes to provisions...
Requirements for listing on the Official List of the Financial Conduct Authority—equity shares (commercial companies) categorySTOP PRESS: Significant...
Key dates for Financial Services—horizon scannerThis Practice Note contains a list of key future developments and dates for financial services lawyers...
Policing and enforcement of the UK Listing RegimeSTOP PRESS: Significant reforms to the UK prospectus regime came into force on 19 January 2026. The...
Administration procedures for UK banks, building societies and investment banksThis Practice Note provides high-level guidance on the administration...
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Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Policy—regulatory references1Introduction1.1The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the Prudential Regulation authority (PRA) (together the...
Financial services outsourcing agreement (intra group)This Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[Insert name of party] a company incorporated in...
Market Abuse Regulation—Issuer wall–crossing script with confidentiality and no trade conditions and email confirmationsStrictly private and...
Letter from issuer to PDMR—continuing obligations under Article 19 Market Abuse Regulation[On headed notepaper of issuer]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
Financial promotion order
Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Financial Promotion) Order is secondary legislation
Open ended investment company (OEIC) (or investment company with variable capital (ICVC))
A investment-scheme'>collective investment scheme (CIS) that is structured as a corporate vehicle (as distinct from a trust'>unit trust (UT)). An OEIC is defined in FSMA 2000, s 236 as a CIS which satisfies both: • the ‘property condition’: the property must belong beneficially to, and be managed by or on behalf of, a body corporate (BC) whose purpose is to invest its funds with the aim of (a) spreading investment risk and (b) giving its members the benefit of the results of managing those funds by or on behalf of that body, and • the ‘investment condition’: in relation to a BC, if a reasonable investor were to participate in the scheme he would (a) expect to be able to realise, within a period appearing reasonable to him, his investment in the scheme, and (b) be satisfied that his investment would be realised on a basis calculated wholly or mainly by reference to the value of property in respect of which the scheme makes arrangements An OEIC is also known as an investment company with variable capital (ICVC) (these terms mean the same thing and are used interchangeably)
pecuniary reward
In the context of financial services, this is a financial benefit gained as a result of a regulated activity
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