News & Analysis as of

Regulatory Agenda HM Treasury

Latham & Watkins LLP

Key Takeaways From Rachel Reeves’ Mansion House Speech

Latham & Watkins LLP on

The UK Chancellor announces a growth-focused agenda for financial services. On 14 November 2024, the new Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rachel Reeves, delivered her first Mansion House speech....more

A&O Shearman

Draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Addition of Relevant Enactments) Regulations 2024 Published

A&O Shearman on

The draft Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Addition of Relevant Enactments) Regulations 2024 have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum. The Regulations add to the list of "relevant enactments" for...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

UK Proposes New Approach To Regulate ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Market Amid Rising Consumer Debt Concerns

In the UK, 14 million people used “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) at least once in the six months leading up to January 2023. Frequent users were more than four times as likely as other consumers to have missed a payment on a...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The Standard Formula: A Guide to Solvency II – Chapter 12: Undertakings in Difficulty

Undertakings in difficulty, in the context of Solvency II, refers to insurers that are either failing or likely to fail to meet their solvency capital requirement (SCR) or their minimum capital requirement (MCR) (together,...more

A&O Shearman

HM Treasury Consults on Regulating Buy Now Pay Later

A&O Shearman on

HM Treasury has begun consulting on draft legislation regulating Buy Now Pay Later. HM Treasury is proposing to bring forward secondary legislation that would bring BNPL into Financial Conduct Authority regulation as soon as...more

A&O Shearman

G7 Cyber Expert Group Statement on Planning for the Opportunities and Risks of Quantum Computing

A&O Shearman on

HM Treasury has published a statement (dated September) by the G7 Cyber Expert Group on planning for the opportunities and risks of quantum computing. The Cyber Expert Group encourages jurisdictions to monitor developments in...more

A&O Shearman

HM Treasury Publishes Policy Statement on Treatment of Overseas Investment Exchanges Under UK Capital Requirements Regulation

A&O Shearman on

HM Treasury has published a policy statement on the treatment of overseas investment exchanges for the purposes of the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation. HM Treasury initially proposed to expand the definition of...more

A&O Shearman

HM Treasury Publishes Policy Update on Applying the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 Model to the UK Capital Requirements...

A&O Shearman on

HM Treasury has published a policy update to confirm its legislative approach for applying the "FSMA model" to the assimilated EU capital requirements regime under the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation and Capital Buffers...more

A&O Shearman

UK Updates and Expands Equivalence for US Derivatives Trading Venues

A&O Shearman on

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

A&O Shearman

Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update 23-29 Feb 2024

A&O Shearman on

Amongst the broad range of updates this week, at international level, the FSB published its thematic peer review on MMF Reforms and the BCBS published the outcomes of its meeting held on 28 and 29 February, including that it...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

Investment Trusts and Activist Funds: What UK Companies Need To Know

On 15 February 2024, Skadden partners Kenneth Burdon, Robert Chaplin, Eben Colby and Greg Norman presented the webinar “Investment Trusts and Activist Funds,” which outlined recent trends in shareholder activism in publicly...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

A New UK Cryptoasset Framework: UK Government Publishes Consultation Response

On 30 October 2023, the HM Treasury (HMT) published its much-anticipated response (Consultation Response) to its March 2023 consultation paper (Consultation) on the UK’s future financial services regime for cryptoassets....more

Latham & Watkins LLP

EU Consults on Plans for a New Regulatory Regime for ESG Ratings Providers

Latham & Watkins LLP on

An evolving landscape of reforms in the ESG ratings sector continues to pose challenges to providers of ratings and scores. International momentum to regulate ESG ratings continues as the European Commission released a...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Treasury and CLC Report on the State of the UK Financial Services Sector

On July 21, the UK Treasury and the City of London Corporation (“CLC”) published a report on their first annual review of the UK financial services sector (the “Report”). The Report sets out findings from a review of the...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

UK Treasury Opens Consultation into Proposed Insolvency Regime to Manage Failure of Stablecoin Firms

On May 31, 2022, the UK Treasury announced a consultation on the government’s proposals to manage the failure of systemic digital settlement asset (“DSA”) (including stablecoin) firms by adapting the existing Financial Market...more

Alston & Bird

UK Treasury Moves Forward with Plans to Regulate Stablecoins for Payments

Alston & Bird on

Our Financial Services & Products London Team examines the UK’s foray into the regulation of cryptoassets in its effort to be ‘a global hub’ for crypto-companies....more

Hogan Lovells

HM Treasury consults on UK regulatory approach to cryptoassets and stablecoins

Hogan Lovells on

The UK Treasury has issued a consultation on the regulatory approach to cryptoassets and stablecoins. It discusses the current regulatory landscape for cryptoassets, puts forward proposals for the extension of the regulatory...more

Hogan Lovells

Banking and finance regulatory news, October 2020 # 3

Hogan Lovells on

CRD V: Draft Financial Holding Companies (Approval etc) and Capital Requirements (Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential Measures) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - HM Treasury has published a draft version of the...more

Hogan Lovells

Global Payments Newsletter, August 2020

Hogan Lovells on

Key developments of interest over the last month include: United Kingdom: HM Treasury publishes Call for Evidence for Payments Landscape Review, seeking industry input on how payment systems could be improved. The deadline...more

Latham & Watkins LLP

HM Treasury Responds to the Call for Evidence on Regulatory Coordination

Latham & Watkins LLP on

Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum and the Regulatory Initiatives Grid to be introduced this summer. On 11 March 2020, HM Treasury published its response to the Call for Evidence on Regulatory Coordination....more

A&O Shearman

UK Government Responds to Committee Report on Conduct Authority's Perimeter of Regulation

A&O Shearman on

The U.K. government has published a response to the Treasury Committee's report on the Financial Conduct Authority's perimeter of regulation. The Committee's Report is part of its ongoing inquiry, The Work of the Financial...more

White & Case LLP

Crypto regulation: UK FCA clarifies regulatory perimeter – but leaves open questions over its tech neutrality

White & Case LLP on

On 31 July 2019 the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published final Guidance on the cryptoasset activities within its regulatory perimeter, in response to feedback on its January 2019 consultation paper and as trailed in...more

Hogan Lovells

UK: Focus on Climate Change and Green Finance

Hogan Lovells on

On 5 June 2019, the Treasury Committee launched an inquiry into the decarbonisation of the UK economy and green finance which will look at the role of the UK regulators and financial services firms in supporting the...more

Hogan Lovells

No-deal Brexit: reorganisation and winding up of insurers

Hogan Lovells on

As part of its planning for a no-deal Brexit, on 30 November HM Treasury published a draft of the Credit Institutions and Insurance Undertakings Reorganisation and Winding Up (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 (the “Draft...more

Hogan Lovells

Draft Insurance Distribution (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 published by HM Treasury: Brexit SI

Hogan Lovells on

On 21 November 2018, HM Treasury published a draft version of the Insurance Distribution (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019, together with an explanatory information document. ...more

25 Results
 / 
View per page
Page: of 1

"My best business intelligence, in one easy email…"

Your first step to building a free, personalized, morning email brief covering pertinent authors and topics on JD Supra:
*By using the service, you signify your acceptance of JD Supra's Privacy Policy.
- hide
- hide