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 Practice Note is a summary of the key legal developments of relevance to personal injury and clinical negligence practitioners as of 2 March 2026. For developments that pre-date this horizon scanner, reference should be made to PI and Clinical Negligence horizon scanning and key cases—overview. Key PI & clinical negligence developments Eighteenth edition of the Judicial College Guidelines due The 18th edition of the Judicial College Guidelines (JCG) is due for publication on 9 April 2026. The Lexis+® UK PI & Clinical Negligence team will be updating the JCG link in our Key Resources on the Lexis+® UK PI & Clinical Negligence homepage and all other relevant content. Law Society publishes practice note on conduct of litigation following Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys The Law Society has published guidance for solicitors, law firms and legal businesses on ensuring that only those authorised under the Legal Services Act 2007 carry on the conduct of litigation, following the High Court judgment in Mazur v Charles Russell Speechlys [2025] EWHC 2341 (KB). The note

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: FCA opens consultations on cryptoasset regulation; ECB publishes proposals to simplify EU European regulatory, supervisory and reporting framework; BIS bulletin examines state of play of cross-border payments enhancement; plus dates for your diary.

This week's edition of EU Law weekly highlights includes the publication of the programme for the Danish Presidency of the Council of the EU for 1 July to 31 December 2025, the adoption of a new State aid framework for the clean industrial transition, the announcement of plans to introduce an EU Quantum Act in 2026, and the launch of a consultation on the extension of the EU carbon border adjustment mechanism to downstream products. In addition this week, the Parliamentary Committee on Internal Market and Consumer Protection adopted proposed measures to address the rise in substandard goods entering the EU via e-commerce and proposed reforms to the EU Package Travel Directive, the Council and the Parliament reached political agreement on changes to EU alternative dispute resolution rules, the Commission launched parallel consultations on an EU Industrial Maritime Strategy and EU Ports Strategy, and a delegated act has been published under the EU Digital Services Act establishing rules for researcher access to internal data from very large online platforms and search engines. Finally, this weeks highlights include an analysis of the interplay between the Medical Devices Regulation/In Vitro Diagnostic Medical Devices Regulation and the EU AI Act and an analysis of an Advocate-General opinion considering the pastiche exception under the EU InfoSoc Directive.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: ESAs to set up cyber co-ordination framework; PSR publishes policy statements on reporting APP scam data; FSB consults on legal, supervisory and regulatory frictions in cross-border payments; plus dates for your diary over the coming week.

This week's edition of Financial Services weekly highlights includes: FCA publishes Quarterly Consultation Paper No. 47; FCA publishes Consumer Duty support outcome review findings; Commission adopts implementing regulation amending ITS with regard to updates to benchmark portfolios and reporting requirements under EU CRD IV; 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.