The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) has published a Carbon Credit Procurement Guide on 10 November 2025 to assist commercial property owners in procuring high-integrity carbon credits for offsetting residual emissions. Developed by BBP's Net Zero Carbon Working Group in collaboration with Managing Agents Partnership members, the guide provides structured procurement processes including developing carbon credit specifications, conducting due diligence on brokers and suppliers, evaluating projects with consistent criteria, and embedding risk management and integrity checks. The guidance aims to align with evolving best practice and investor expectations as organisations progress towards net zero carbon goals. The guide is available on BBP and MAP websites, with stakeholders invited to provide feedback to ensure practical effectiveness and industry alignment.

The Better Buildings Partnership (BBP) has published a comprehensive guide to support and assist UK commercial real estate owners in applying the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework. The guidance provides practical tools for implementing the TNFD framework and developing informed nature-related disclosures. It provides an overview of the nature and biodiversity challenges in the real estate sector, outlines the Locate, Evaluate, Assess, Prepare (LEAP) process to guide organisational strategy and governance, and offers a step-by-step implementation guide, which includes appendices on regulatory drivers and the impacts of commercial real estate on natural systems.

The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) is responsible for writing and maintaining the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising, but the Office of Communications (Ofcom) retains overall sign-off on major changes to the Code. The BCAP Code sets out the rules that govern broadcast advertisements on any television channel or radio station licensed by Ofcom. The ASA is responsible for administering the Code, but is able to refer broadcasters to Ofcom for further action, if needed.

The BCAP code is administered by the Advertising Standards Authority (ASA), applying to advertising in the broadcast media and should not be confused with Ofcom’s Broadcasting Code, which regulates content. The overarching principle of the BCAP Code is to require broadcast advertising on television and radio to be socially responsible.

The Broadcast Committee of Advertising Practice (BCAP) has published a statement, announcing updates to section 14 of the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP Code), following a public consultation. The changes clarify that existing restrictions on advertisements for unregulated investments to specialised financial channels and programming will apply to unregulated products that meet the likely consumer understanding of an ‘investment’. These changes take effect immediately, with BCAP intending to review the amended rules after 12 months.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) have published a report reviewing the implementation of margin requirements for non-centrally cleared derivatives. The report concludes that the framework has been effectively implemented and finds no evidence of material issues. No changes to the framework are proposed.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published the outcomes from its 2 and 3 July 2024 meeting, in which it approved the disclosure framework and capital standard for banks' cryptoasset exposures and amendments to interest rate risk in the banking book standard (IRRBB). The BCBS also agreed to consult on third-party risk principles.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is consulting on guidelines for counterparty credit risk (CCR) management, to replace the Committee's ‘Sound practices for banks' interactions with highly leveraged institutions’ published in January 1999. The BCBS says the guidelines ‘provide a supervisory response to the significant shortcomings that have been identified in banks' management of CCR, including the lessons learned from recent episodes of non-bank financial intermediary (NBFI) distress’. Responses are sought by 28 August 2024.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has published a consultation on potential measures to address window-dressing behaviour in the context of the framework for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). Potential revisions would require banks to report and disclose the indicators used to calculate G-SIB scores based on average values over the reporting year, rather than year-end values. Responses are sought by 7 June 2024.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) is consulting on proposed principles for the sound management of third-party risk in the banking sector. The aim is to provide guidance to banks and prudential supervisors on effective third-party risk management, in order to enhance banks' ability to withstand operational disruptions and mitigate the impact of severe disruptive events. Responses are sought by 9 October 2024.

The Bank of International Settlements (BIS) has issued a press release following a meeting of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) held in Stockholm on 20-21 May 2025 where the Committee reviewed multiple regulatory initiatives. At the meeting, it was noted that the BCBS continues to prioritise full Basel III implementation while developing supervisory tools based on lessons from the 2023 banking turmoil.

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS)'s oversight body—the Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS)—has welcomed the progress made on the Basel III Framework, but reiterated its expectation that all aspects are implemented in full, consistently and as soon as possible. The implementation timeline for the prudential standard for banks' cryptoasset exposures has been moved to 1 January 2026.