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This month the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its Annual Report and Accounts covering the period April 2023 – March 2024, which includes information on its enforcement activity during that period. The FCA has...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
On July 22, 2024, the European Commission (EC) accepted commitments proposed by Vifor Pharmaceuticals to address disparagement concerns under Article 102 TFEU. This is the EC’s first pure disparagement case and its second...more
As financial crime compliance pressures grow, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) continues to emphasise the significance of its Financial Crime Guide (FCG) as part of the overarching regulatory framework for financial...more
We strongly disagree with the FCA’s proposals, set out in CP24/2, to announce that it has opened enforcement investigations into firms where it considers this to be in the public interest. We set out our objections in detail...more
Last month, the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) announced that it is considering new procedures under which it would publicly identify firms that are under investigation as soon as the investigation has been...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published its proposed approach to publishing information about the opening and progress of investigations.1 The proposals represent a marked departure from the FCA’s current practice...more
By now, you may have heard that the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is consulting on changes to its approach to publicising enforcement investigations, as well as other changes to its Enforcement Guide. If they come into...more
In this fifth and final post in our blog series addressing challenges related to the discovery of chat data, our eDiscovery experts continue providing practical advice for businesses when encountering chat data in...more
The FCA released its 2022/23 Annual Report last week together with data on its key enforcement trends. We consider below some of the key takeaways....more
Chartered accountants are accustomed to continuous oversight of their work by regulators. While regulatory supervision can often be a collaborative process, it does sometimes culminate in individual accountants and firms...more
Juggling conversations with multiple enforcement agencies simultaneously in the course of a cross-border anticorruption investigation can be a difficult and daunting task for legal and compliance teams. Getting it right can...more
This pair of posts focuses on ten less-obvious enforcement predictions that we think will shape the UK financial services investigations and enforcement landscape during 2023 and beyond. Originally published in Practical...more
Regulatory change programmes are no small undertaking. Failure to implement change thoroughly can lead to intensified regulatory scrutiny or, if sufficiently serious, investigations and enforcement action....more
On 4 November 2022, in the case of FCA v Papadimitrakopoulos & Gryparis1 , the UK High Court reaffirmed the principle that information obtained via Mutual Legal Assistance (MLA) requests can only be used for the purpose for...more
With remote and hybrid working arrangements now the norm for many firms in the wake of the pandemic, risks of misconduct have become heightened by the increased use of unmonitored and/or encrypted communication applications...more
Securities laws across France, Germany and the United Kingdom are widely comparable. Each country recognises the importance of maintaining a strong procedural framework of regulation and enforcement. The EU Market Abuse...more
Despite concerns being raised through the consultation process, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has implemented its proposals to shift some decision making from the Regulatory Decisions Committee (RDC) to senior FCA...more
In this episode, Akin Gump financial regulatory partner Helen Marshall and white collar defense and government investigations practice co-head Michael Asaro look at SEC and FCA’s annual reports to discuss similarities,...more
In our Quarterly Review, we bring you important UK developments relating to business crime, investigations and regulatory enforcement from the last three months. We commented last month that the scale of the impact of the...more
Lawyers' notes of interviews with a bank's employees conducted as part of two investigations were not privileged since the employees were not the "client" and the notes were not lawyers' working papers, according to the...more