3/19/2025 4:55:22 PM FCA sends a clear message on non-financial misconduct By Katie Stephen On the same day as HM Treasury’s publication of an action plan setting out a ‘new approach’ to ensure regulators support growth, the...
3/19/2025 12:43:42 PM Multi-firm review: FCA publishes findings on sell-side liquidity risk management By Jonathan Herbst On 10 March 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its findings following a multi-firm review of liquidity risk management...
3/17/2025 2:44:42 PM Biodiversity Net Gain: A year of green shoots? By Rory Bennett It’s been just over a year since the seeds were sown and the Biodiversity Net Gain (“BNG”) regime enacted by the Environmental Act 2021...
3/14/2025 2:07:05 PM FCA drops ‘name and shame’ and D&I proposals: key takeaways for firms By Katie Stephen Catherine Pluck Joe Smallshaw After much speculation regarding the fate of various outstanding Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) initiatives in relation to...
3/14/2025 8:36:44 AM Long Duration Energy Storage (LDES) cap and floor Technical Decision Document: The devil is in the detail By Georgina O'Sullivan Mark Mills Melusi Dlamini On 11 March 2025, Ofgem and DESNZ jointly published the Long Duration Electricity Storage (LDES) Technical Decision Document (the TDD), a...
3/10/2025 5:18:11 PM Dear CEO: FCA looks to private markets in asset management letter By Jonathan Herbst The FCA appears to be using Dear CEO letters quite liberally at the moment. There have been two most recently addressed to: Wholesale...
2/11/2025 12:30:33 PM Name and Shame Round Two: House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee remains deeply concerned By Katie Stephen On 6 February 2025 the House of Lords Financial Services Regulation Committee published its report entitled ‘Naming and shaming: how not...
2/10/2025 10:31:27 AM EU Commission grants equivalence to the UK CCP for a further three years By Jonathan Herbst Good to see that the EU Commission has finally granted equivalence to the UK CCP for a further three years. This is a helpful...
2/7/2025 4:06:03 PM Upper Tribunal considers spoofing cases: What to watch out for in the upcoming decisions By Katie Stephen The Upper Tribunal is considering three connected spoofing cases involving bond traders whose decision notices were published by the FCA...
1/31/2025 8:37:34 AM Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA): Call for Input on draft implementing legislation By Georgina O'Sullivan As covered in our previous briefing The European Commission’s Net-Zero Industry Act and European Hydrogen Bank explained), the EU's Net...
12/18/2024 10:39:22 AM Clean Power 2030: The UK's path to a sustainable energy future By Rob Marsh Georgina O'Sullivan On 13 December 2024, DESNZ published its much anticipated Clean Power 2030 Action Plan (the Plan), outlining the UK's comprehensive...
11/26/2024 10:15:29 AM Revised Product Liability Directive (introducing rules on strict liability for AI and other software) entered in the EU's statute book By Marcus Evans Lucy Bruce Jones Andrew Swarbrick Rosie Nance +1 more... Show less Directive (EU) 2024/2853 on liability for defective products (the Revised Product Liability Directive) was published in the Official...