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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....
MLex: The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) made ‘significant errors in law’ as part of a fraud probe into a lawyer, judges have said, ordering it to...
The Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) has published a blog outlining its updated approach to assessing reasonableness in licence...
This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: PRA fines U K Insurance Limited £10.6m for Solvency II miscalculation;...
A round-up of financial services developments....
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
FORTHCOMING CHANGE 1: Section 10 of the Finance Act 2022 will increase the normal minimum pension age (NMPA) from 55 to 57 on 6 April 2028 (save for...
You may have a regulatory or professional duty to keep the affairs of your customers confidential and the circumstances in which you can disclose...
Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note covers the specified regulated activity of ‘providing targeted support’ under amendments to the...
This Practice Note sets out the UK regime for product governance that insurance firms must comply with for the manufacture and distribution of...
This Practice Note sets out: criminal offences that the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) can prosecute via the criminal courts. The FCA’s general...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of template PowerPoint slides that can be used as...
This clause consists of amendments and additions to the ILPA standard form Limited Partnership Agreement allowing ESG issues to be investigated,...
This Agreement is made on [insert date]Parties1[insert name of employee borrower], of [insert address] (Employee); and2[insert name of employer...
These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as part of its climate change glossary, provide definitions...
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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
Exempt regulated activity
A regulated activity carried on by an exempt professional firm.
Lloyd's syndicate
Arises in connection with Lloyd's which is a market in the City of London where members join together as syndicates to insure risks.
Master UCITS
A UCITS, or an investment compartment thereof, which: (a) has, among its unitholders, at least one feeder UCITS, (b) is not itself a feeder UCITS, and (c) does not hold units of a feeder UCITS (Directive 2009/65/EC, Art 58(3)).
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