This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: Sara Cody’s Consumer Duty column—keep on keeping—key themes from the FCA’s December 2023 webinar; FCA responses to consultation on its Rule Review Framework; HMT’s CCP resolution regime code of practice, plus a round-up of other news for financial services professionals.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: PRA’s Gareth Truran calls on firms to use Solvency II reforms to support productive investments; ESMA deprioritises supervisory expectations on CCP eligible collateral for NFCs pending EMIR 3; BCBS approves disclosure framework and capital standard for banks' cryptoasset exposures; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA welcomes government legislation bringing ESG ratings providers into regulation; FCA restricts Currency Matters over safeguarding, governance and capital failings; ECB outlines drive to simplify supervision and clarify regulatory expectations for banks; plus dates for your diary.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA announces 2025-2030 strategy focusing on growth and regulatory efficiency; FCA announces regulatory streamlining plans following Consumer Duty implementation; Council of the EU adopts amendment to Benchmarks Regulation; IFSB launches consultation on climate risk guidance for firms offering Islamic financial services; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: BoE speech on strategy for modernising wholesale payments; EIOPA opens six consultations on the EU IRRD; IAIS publishes Year in Review 2024 report; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: James Burnie, partner at gunnercooke LLP explores the new stablecoin regime following FSMA 2023; FCA, BoE and PRA set out their approach to AI; European Parliament adopts position at first reading of PSD3 and PSR proposals; European Parliament adopts proposed Solvency II amending Directive and IRRD; PRA publishes speech and Dear CRO letter on its thematic review of private equity-related financing activities, and FCA publishes final greenwashing guidance and proposes extension of sustainability disclosure and labelling regime to portfolio managers, plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA speech on its strategic approach to managing NBFI leverage and systemic risk; EBA reports progress but gaps remain in ESG risk data landscape; FATF consults on revisions to R.16 on payment transparency; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA publishes final regulatory fee and levy rates for 2024/25; FATF consults on updated national ML/TF risk assessment guidance; UNEP FI, Climate Bonds Initiative and PRI collaborate on taxonomy interoperability; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA and PRA announce raft of measures to support growth of mutuals sector; EU bodies reach provisional agreement on simplified sustainability reporting and due diligence; BCBS publishes principles for management of third-party risk in the banking sector; plus dates for your diary.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: PRA’s Dear CFO letter on significant risk transfer financing; ESMA’s first code package of GitHub; CRR: European Commission proposes permanent NSFR treatment for securities financing transactions; BIS launches Project AISE; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of the EU Forced Labour Regulation, EU ESG Ratings Regulation, recast Urban Waste Water Treatment Directive, and EU Construction Products Regulation in the Official Journal and the commencement of application of the EU General Product Safety Regulation. In addition, this week, the Council of the EU adopted its position on the revised Package Travel Directive, a new Regulation governing plastic pellet loss, and the new Regulation on packaging and packaging waste, the European Banking Authority issued the final Guidelines on MiCA reporting requirements, the Council of the EU and European Parliament reached a provisional deal on benchmark reform, ESMA launched a consultation on the use of the European Single Electronic Format for sustainability reporting, and the European Commission launched a consultation on medical devices legislation and launched proceedings under the Digital Services Act against TikTok over election risks. The highlights also include analyses of a Court of Justice ruling which held that promotions for valuation and purchase of gold from consumers fall within the scope of the EU Unfair Commercial Practices Directive, emerging trends at the Unified Patent Court, voluntary guidance on EU’s AI literacy obligation, and examples of upcoming EU AI Act bans.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA speech outlines balanced approach to AI innovation and human oversight in financial markets; ESAs publish list of critical ICT third-party providers under DORA; IOSCO publishes final report on neo-broker regulation; plus dates for your diary.