11/28/2025
Simplifying the firm experience: RegData access now through My FCA
Over the coming months, this will also include Connect and Online Invoicing System, so that everything you need will be in one place.
Legal, Regulation & Compliance
11/27/2025
The FCA’s approach to regulating cryptoassets and stablecoins
It sometimes feels that, with cryptoassets and stablecoins, we are standing at the same type of door.
11/27/2025
Emma Woollcott wins Reputation Lawyer of the Year at 2025 Spear's Awards
The awards are often known as the 'Oscars of the private client world', and cover 18 categories.
11/27/2025
Federal Council adopts dispatch on amendment of DTA with Belgium
In particular, the additional agreement contains an abuse clause which refers to the main purpose of an arrangement or transaction and thus ensures that the DTA is not abused.
11/26/2025
Chair reflections: rebalancing risk
Different viewpoints have centred on apparent trade-offs between growth and our consumer protection objective, and between growth and system resilience.
11/26/2025
The EBA releases the final technical package for its 4.2 reporting framework to ensure compliance with EU regulatory reporting obligations and to conclude the transition to DPM 2.0
The final package will be applicable from December 2025.
11/26/2025
We must enable growth, not regulate it into obscurity
Guernsey Financial Services Commission Director General: “We must enable growth, not regulate it into obscurity”
11/26/2025
Autumn Budget 2025: Government announces changes to salary sacrifice
The changes are expected to bring upheaval to a large number of workers with removal of the arrangement costing millions of employees hundreds of pounds a year.
11/26/2025
Pay rise for millions as minimum wage jumps to £12.71
Finances are stretched to breaking point and hiring is already frozen.
11/25/2025
Policy churn leaves savers second-guessing, says Nucleus
Nucleus’s 2025 Retirement Confidence Index suggests this shift is already influencing behaviour.
11/24/2025
State pensioners set to pay back full Winter Fuel Payment in income tax if Govt extends threshold freeze, new analysis reveals
A combination of frozen thresholds and healthy uplifts to the state pension in recent years will result in many starting to pay tax on their state pension entitlement from the 2027/28 tax year.
11/21/2025
No changes for Data Reporting Services Providers following ESMA’s 2025 assessment of derogation criteria
Based on the 2025 assessment, the supervisory designations established in 2024 remain unchanged.
11/21/2025
The European Supervisory Authorities designate critical ICT third-party providers under the Digital Operational Resilience Act
First, the ESAs collected data from the Registers of Information maintained by financial entities, which detail their contractual arrangements for ICT services.
11/21/2025
Addleshaw Goddard advises Baltic Storage Platform on construction and project aspects of the landmark EUR 85.6 million project financing of major BESS project in Estonia
This groundbreaking transaction represents the first project financing in the Baltic countries that is exclusively structured around the revenues generated by energy storage assets.
11/21/2025
Borrowing binge continues in run up to Budget
The government borrowed £17.4bn in October, lower than last year but still the third highest on record for this month since records began in 1993.
11/20/2025
PRA confirms FSCS deposit limit to be increased to £120,000 from 1 December
From the start of December, UK bank customers will benefit from an increase to the maximum amount they would be reimbursed for if their bank were to fail
11/20/2025
Dechert Advises Grant Thornton Luxembourg on Acquisition by Grant Thornton Advisors LLC
This acquisition expands Grant Thornton’s multinational platform by adding Grant Thornton Luxembourg, Grant Thornton UAE and Grant Thornton (Cayman)
11/20/2025
Three arrested in investigation into suspected unauthorised debt activities
The individuals have been interviewed under caution and released on conditional bail.
11/19/2025
PISCES operator approved by FCA in push for growth
Bringing a second operator into the market will boost competition, attract a greater variety of businesses and drive opportunities for investors.
11/19/2025
Amazon, Google named by EU among ‘critical’ tech providers for finance industry
The new rules are part of an attempt to protect the EU’s financial sector from the risks around its reliance on external technology providers, for example its use of cloud computing to run key banking services.