The Markets in Financial Instruments (Equivalence) (United States of America) (Commodity Futures Trading Commission) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/638) were made on May 14, 2024 and entered into force on June 4, 2024. In...more
In July 2021, HM Treasury published the Wholesale Markets Review consultation (WMR), which included proposals to reform the U.K.’s secondary markets framework. There was broad support for reforms to (a) modify the ancillary...more
HM Treasury has published a response to its consultation on cryptoasset regulation, setting out its final proposals for the U.K.'s cryptoasset regulatory regime. The U.K. plans to make cryptoassets a new category of...more
On 11 July 2023, HM Treasury published the response to its December 2022 consultation paper which set out its intention to repeal the retained EU law version of the Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products...more
Hailed as a landmark piece of legislation and a once in a generation reform to the UK financial services sector, the new Financial Services and Markets Act 2022-2023 which received Royal Assent on 29 June 2023 aims to bolster...more
The tone of the Call for Evidence indicates the controversial research unbundling rules could be primed for reform. On 3 April 2023, HM Treasury published a Call for Evidence as the first step in the independent review...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a consultation paper on proposed guidance on the regulatory perimeter for multilateral trading facilities and on possible future changes to smaller trading venues' regulatory...more
The U.K. government has published the much anticipated Financial Services and Markets Bill. Following its exit from the EU, the U.K. has undertaken a fundamental review of how financial regulation policy and rules should be...more
Following the Queen's speech yesterday, the government has published a briefing pack setting out details of the bills that it intends to introduce, including the so-called Brexit Freedoms Bill as well as key legislation...more
HM Treasury has published its consultation response to the Wholesale Markets Review, setting out summaries of responses received to its proposals and how changes will be progressed. There are certain areas that HM Treasury...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a statement confirming its approach to supervising commodity derivatives position limits. The statement follows the FCA's Supervisory Statement on the operation of the...more
On 1 July 2021, HM Treasury published a consultation paper for its Wholesale Markets Review. The areas considered by HM Treasury in the consultation overlap in certain aspects with those being considered by the EU authorities...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
Proposals signal that the UK government is willing to diverge significantly from EU rules. On 1 July 2021, HM Treasury published a consultation on its Wholesale Markets Review....more
30 November - The Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) published a statement about its forthcoming policy statement on implementing the CRD V Directive ((EU) 2019/878). HM Treasury updated its webpage on a call for...more
Partners Julia Smithers Excell and Stuart Willey, and associate Laura Kitchen of global law firm White & Case take a deep dive on the latest publications from EU and UK regulators aimed at providing supervisory clarity on the...more
BREXIT/UK DEVELOPMENTS - FCA Announces Launch of Green FinTech Challenge - On October 19, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a webpage announcing the launch of its “Green FinTech Challenge”, an...more
FCA comments on increased use of “Periodic Auctions” after-MiFID II - The FCA has published a webpage on the use of periodic auction platforms as a method for share trading in light of their significantly increased use...more
FCA Report on Algorithmic Trading Compliance in the Wholesale Markets - The FCA published a report on “Algorithmic Trading Compliance in Wholesale Markets” on 12 February 2018. The report followed certain research into...more
The Financial Conduct Authority has published a Policy Statement setting out new Handbook rules and guidance to implement some of the recommendations arising from the Financial Advice Market Review launched by the FCA jointly...more
Brexit - Brexit – PRA letter to HoC Treasury Committee on firms' contingency planning - On 9 August, the HoC Treasury Committee published a letter (dated 2 August) from Sam Woods, BoE Deputy Governor, Prudential...more
HM Treasury Finalises Private Fund Changes to Limited Partnerships Act 1907 - As previously reported, HM Treasury published on 16 January 2017, a draft Legislative Reform (Private Fund Limited Partnerships) Order 2016...more
UK Supreme Court Rules UK Parliament Must Approve Brexit Notice to EU - Under Article 50 of the EU Treaty, the process for the UK to leave the EU is commenced by service of a notice on the European Council, which starts...more
HM Treasury published its response to its late 2016 consultation on amending the definition of regulated advice under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001 to bring it in line with the...more
HM Treasury published a paper summarizing responses to its consultation on the transposition of the revised Markets in Financial Instruments Directive and three draft statutory instruments to facilitate transposition. Member...more