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UK Moves Ahead With Voluntary Oversight Regime For Sustainability Assurance

The aim of the oversight regime is to build trust in sustainability-related financial disclosures and develop a robust, competitive assurance market without over regulating a nascent ecosystem.

United Kingdom Finance

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Macfarlanes LLP

The UK FCA Consults On Changes To The UK Short Selling Regime

On 28 October 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper setting out proposed changes to the UK short selling regime.

United Kingdom Finance

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McDermott Will & Schulte

The Berne Financial Services Agreement: Key Points For Swiss Firms

The Berne Financial Services Agreement (BFSA) entered into force on 1 January 2026. The BFSA facilitates cross-border financial services between the UK and Switzerland by recognising the equivalence...

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK FCA's Non-financial Misconduct Framework: Strategies For September Implementation

The clock is ticking for financial services firms to prepare for the UK's Financial Conduct Authority's (FCA) new non-financial misconduct (NFM) framework, which comes into force on September 1, 2026.

United Kingdom Finance

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Dechert

Catherine Gage Explains The Impact Of Martyn's Law In Charity Finance

United Kingdom Finance

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Hunters

UK Crypto Regulation Moves Forward: Lending, Staking & DeFi - Key Takeaways From FCA CP25/40

United Kingdom Finance

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Winston & Strawn LLP

FCA Consults On The Application Of Key Regulatory Requirements To UK Crypto-Asset Firms

United Kingdom Finance

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Jones Day

Private Credit CLOs In Europe: From Pioneering Structures To A Scalable Product

European Union Finance

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Dechert

The UK FCA's Non-financial Misconduct Framework: Implementation Strategies Ahead Of September 2026

United Kingdom Finance

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Dechert

What is an execution agent and what scenarios does it cover?

United Kingdom Finance

TRAction

Listing Regime – FCA's New Enforcement Watch Newsletter

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

FCA Launches Review About How AI Will Reshape Retail Financial Services

United Kingdom Finance

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Lewis Silkin

Navigating Transition Planning In Asset Management With Pinsent Masons (Podcast)

United Kingdom Finance

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Guernsey Finance

EU–UK Financial Regulators Collaborate On Oversight Of Critical ICT Third-Party Providers

European Union Finance

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Mayer Brown

UK Employment Roadmap At A Glance

United Kingdom Employment

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A&O Shearman

What Differences Can Corporates Leverage Between US And UK Capital Markets? (Video)

United Kingdom Finance

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Employment Winter Newsletter 2025

United Kingdom Employment

TS

Travers Smith LLP

COP30: What Were The Key Outcomes?

Worldwide Environment

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Travers Smith LLP

Beyond The Buzz: What Is Driving Stablecoin Adoption? (Podcast)

United Kingdom Technology

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A&O Shearman

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Capital Adequacy/BASEL

Bank Of England Published Financial Stability Report And Assessment Of Bank Capital Requirements

On 2 December 2025, the Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (the FPC) published its December Financial Stability Report, as well as a report entitled ‘Financial Stability in Focus...

United Kingdom Finance

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Addleshaw Goddard

FCA Paper Published On Market Risk Capital Requirements For Investment Firms

On 16 December 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published an engagement paper on ‘Market risk capital requirements for FCA investment firms'.

United Kingdom Finance

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Addleshaw Goddard

In The Know: UK-EU Banking And Investment Regulation

In this edition, we discuss latest developments in the UK and EU banking and investment regulation. This issue focuses on key papers relating to capital and prudential developments which were published in December 2025.

United Kingdom Finance

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Addleshaw Goddard

The UK's Banking Regulator Sets Out Its Supervisory Expectations

United Kingdom Finance

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Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

Splintering Of The International Capital Framework?

Worldwide Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

PRA Near-final Policy Statement On CRR Restatement For 2027 Implementation

United Kingdom Finance

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Addleshaw Goddard

In The Know: UK-EU Banking And Investment Regulation - November 2025

United Kingdom Finance

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

Remuneration Code - For Banks, Building Societies And Investment Firms

United Kingdom Finance

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Lewis Silkin

UK PRA PS 19/25—Securitisation Prudential Reforms

United Kingdom Finance

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A&O Shearman

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Debt Capital Markets

The UK FCA Consults On Changes To The UK Short Selling Regime

On 28 October 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper setting out proposed changes to the UK short selling regime.

United Kingdom Finance

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McDermott Will & Schulte

Understanding Financial Abuse And Economic Abuse: Protection And Support (30 January 2026)

Financial abuse, also known as economic abuse, is a serious form of domestic abuse that affects many people across the UK.

United Kingdom Employment

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Duncan Lewis & Co Solicitors

High Court Rejects Attempt By Noteholders To Remove And Replace Trustee Against Wishes Of Issuer

Court grants declaratory relief on construction of loan participation note transaction documents to the effect that only the Issuer had the right to appoint a new Trustee...

United Kingdom Real Estate

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Setting The Private Capital Compass For 2026

United Kingdom Commercial

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McDermott Will & Schulte

The New UK Prospectus Rules – Significant Change For UK Capital Markets

United Kingdom Commercial

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Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld LLP

EMIR Reporting of the ‘Stock Split' Corporate Event

United Kingdom Finance

TRAction

Prospectus Regime Change In The UK—a Debt Capital Markets Update

United Kingdom Finance

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A&O Shearman

Capital Markets – New UK Prospectus Regime In Force From 19 January

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

When Do Validations Kick In For Certain EMIR Refit Fields?

United Kingdom Finance

TRAction

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Charges, Mortgages, Indemnities

When Do Validations Kick In For Certain EMIR Refit Fields?

Reconciliation Phase II (Phase II) is to go live in April 2026 for EU EMIR and September 2026 for UK EMIR.

United Kingdom Finance

TRAction

Non-Bank Lending In The Spotlight: Does The UK's Approach To Calculating Bank Regulatory Capital Require Revisiting?

In this GT Alert, we provide an overview of how the amount of regulatory capital that a UK bank is required to hold is quantified and whether there is a case for reconsidering the current approach.

United Kingdom Finance

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

Non-Bank Lending In The Spotlight – Does The System Of Calculating Regulatory Capital Require Revisiting?

In October's GT Alert on non-bank lending, we focussed on whether there was a justification in banks being subject to regulatory capital requirements when non-bank financial institutions (NBFIs) were not.

United Kingdom Finance

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Greenberg Traurig, LLP

UK PRA PS 19/25—Securitisation Prudential Reforms

United Kingdom Finance

AO

A&O Shearman

Financial Regulation - In The Know: October 2025

United Kingdom Finance

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

Understanding Regulatory Risks In Home Purchase Plans vs. Traditional Regulated Mortgage Contracts

United Kingdom Finance

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

In Practice: Supreme Court Motor Finance Commission Ruling: What Next For Lenders?

United Kingdom Finance

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Travers Smith LLP

Episode 19: Leeds, Leeds, Leeds: Marching On Together In Financial Services (Video)

United Kingdom Finance

AG

Addleshaw Goddard

County Court Considers Bank's Possession Rights In Context Of A Mortgage That Is Securitised Or Subject To Covered Bond

United Kingdom Finance

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Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

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Financial Services

UK Moves Ahead With Voluntary Oversight Regime For Sustainability Assurance

The aim of the oversight regime is to build trust in sustainability-related financial disclosures and develop a robust, competitive assurance market without over regulating a nascent ecosystem.

United Kingdom Finance

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Macfarlanes LLP

FinTech Global FS Regulatory Round-up - w/e 30 January 2026

In this edition we round up FinTech-related financial services regulatory developments for the week ending 30 January 2026.

United Kingdom Technology

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

Investigations Into Possible Breaches Of The Cyber Sanctions Regime

It is being reported, following a Freedom of Information request to HM Treasury, that the UK's Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation has between 1 and 5 investigations...

United Kingdom International

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Duane Morris LLP

The Berne Financial Services Agreement: Key Points For Swiss Firms

United Kingdom Finance

KL

Herbert Smith Freehills Kramer LLP

UK FCA's Non-financial Misconduct Framework: Strategies For September Implementation

United Kingdom Finance

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Dechert

Catherine Gage Explains The Impact Of Martyn's Law In Charity Finance

United Kingdom Finance

HL

Hunters

FCA Publishes Further Consultation On Application Of The FCA Handbook To Cryptoasset Activities

United Kingdom Technology

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Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

UK Crypto Regulation Moves Forward: Lending, Staking & DeFi - Key Takeaways From FCA CP25/40

United Kingdom Finance

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Winston & Strawn LLP

Fundamental Changes To The United Kingdom's Taxation Of Carried Interest Regime

United Kingdom Tax

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Mayer Brown

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Latest Videos

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What Differences Can Corporates Leverage Between US And UK Capital Markets? (Video)

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Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner

Episode 15: Budget Special & 2026 Predictions (Video)

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Alvarez & Marsal

Market Moves: Unlocking Opportunities Through JPF Enhancements (Video)

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Jersey Finance Limited

Travers Smith's Alternative Insights: Should You Label Your Next Fund? (Podcast)

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Travers Smith LLP

Business Reporter – Best Of British Business: Keeping The Engine Behind Your Market Data Running (Video)

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CJC Ltd

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