The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Fintech Focus Podcast | Managing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
Fintech Focus Podcast | Growing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
Fintech Focus Podcast | Are Regulators Dictating Fintech Deal Terms?
The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Group Supervision Under Solvency II
Fierce Competition Podcast | Letter From London: The Rise of UK Class Actions and the Competition Appeal Tribunal
The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
JONES DAY TALKS®: Class Actions Worldview Guide: Part 1–The United States and European Union
Season 2 Episode 5- Defense Trade Down Under
Cornerstone Research Connects: The CAT Judgment in Trucks
The Standard Formula Podcast | The Edinburgh Reforms: Big Bang 2.0 or Thoughtful Change?
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
Life with GDPR - Changes to UK Data Protection Regime
Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Fine by the ICO
The UK GDPR Children’s Code
Life with GDPR - Data Transfers from EU/UK to US
The Compliance Kitchen - UK’s Second Wave of Sanctions on Russia
For any UK fintech business involved with payments of electronic money (e-money) and any (experienced) investor in these businesses, safeguarding client funds is a key regulatory issue....more
“The first rule of enforcement club is that you do in fact talk about enforcement club”; so Therese Chambers, the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) joint executive director of enforcement and market oversight, announced...more
The FCA plans to streamline its approach to enforcement and publicise investigations at an early stage. On 27 February 2024, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP24/2) on its proposed new approach to publicising...more
Financial regulators in the UK have been interested for some years in the question of how personal behaviour can affect the risk profile of a financial institution. A recent SEC case suggests that US regulators may now be...more
On 25 September, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its consultation paper CP23/20: Diversity and inclusion in the financial sector – working together to drive change alongside a similar consultation paper...more
The EU regulators are reviewing the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation introduced in 2021, exploring the need for potential additional adjustments. On 14 September 2023, the European Commission initiated a...more
Regulator clarifies that existing FCA rules will continue to apply but will also reflect the evolving landscape of financial promotions on social media. On 17 July 2023, the FCA published a guidance consultation (GC23/2)...more
On 1 February 1 2023, HM Treasury (HMT) issued a further policy statement on cryptoasset promotions in the UK, "Government approach to cryptoasset financial promotions regulation policy statement”. It updates HMT’s January...more
In a widely-anticipated development, HM Treasury (“HMT”) has announced its intention to widen the scope of the financial promotions regime in so far as it applies to cryptoassets. Hot on its heels, the Financial Conduct...more
HM Treasury has confirmed that it will bring certain unregulated cryptoassets within scope of the financial promotions regime. On 18 January 2022, the UK government confirmed its intention to bring the promotion of certain...more
On 14 May 2021, the FCA published Consultation Paper CP21/13 outlining much-anticipated proposals relating to the standards expected of regulated firms to ensure the protection of retail consumers. The Consultation Paper...more
The FCA is proposing to set higher expectations for firms operating in retail markets. On 14 May 2021, the FCA published a Consultation Paper (CP21/13) on introducing a new Consumer Duty....more
On 7 May 2020, the European Commission (Commission) issued a comprehensive and ambitious Action Plan and public consultation designed to strengthen the European Union's (EU) legal framework to fight against money laundering...more
The FCA has published a series of measures and regulatory guidance on how financial services firms should deal with the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic. In our previous client notes, “Planning in a Time of Pandemic:...more
On 23 July 2019, the FCA published a Dear CEO letter on its wealth management and stockbroking supervision strategy, which began in April 2019. The strategy includes work to identify, diagnose, and remedy the harm that wealth...more
SEC/CORPORATE - US District Court Orders SEC To Revise Resource Extraction Issuer Rule - On September 2, the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts ordered the SEC to file with the District Court in 30...more
On 15 June 2015, the Abu Dhabi Global Market (Global Market), Abu Dhabi’s financial free zone, published the following six new regulations concerning the regulation of non-financial services in the Global Market: -...more