07/19/2021
The UK’s great bank account shutdown
They want banks to be more robust in monitoring transactions, large money transfers and payments to cryptocurrency sites, and have talked to them about how suspicious activity should be reported.
07/19/2021
Workstreams updates
This allows us to focus on other priority work, including defined benefit pension transfers work and the issues raised in the 2020 consumer investments Call for Input.
07/19/2021
The Guidelines have been issued in the context of the new EU regime on the cross-border distribution of investment funds
07/19/2021
The Law Commission previously reviewed the law in this area in 2010 and found that there was "no pressing need for reform of the identification doctrine"
07/19/2021
Guiding principles on design, delivery and disclosure of ESG and sustainable investment funds
The guiding principles are there to ensure that any ESG-related claims are clear and not misleading, both at the time of application and on an ongoing basis, so that consumers can make informed choices.
07/19/2021
The letter includes a set of guiding principles to help AFMs comply with existing requirements by ensuring that fund disclosures accurately reflect the nature of the fund’s responsible or sustainable investment.
07/18/2021
Sale of entire assets, including excess cash reserves, set to generate more than €500m
07/16/2021
The FCA will also be consulting on changing the balance between decisions taken by the FCA executive and the Regulatory Decisions Committee, which is a sub-committee of the Board.
07/16/2021
Internal investigation is examining as many as 100 cases tied to the sale of currency derivatives
07/16/2021
Enhancing access to the UK's equity capital markets: consultations on changes to the prospectus and listing regimes
The Prospectus Regime Review consultation takes forward the UK Listing Review Report's recommendation that the government carry out a fundamental review of the UK's prospectus regime.
07/16/2021
2020/21 was a challenging year for everyone – the people we serve, the industry we regulate, and all of us at the Financial Conduct Authority.
07/16/2021
Achieving these emission reductions in the next decade is crucial to Europe becoming the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050
07/16/2021
The Business Plan sets out the key areas of focus for the FCA in the coming year.
07/16/2021
This is particularly the case considering the issuance of the Bank of England’s, FCA’s and PRA’s joint discussion paper on diversity and inclusion in the financial sector in July 2021.
07/16/2021
It also supplements the provision on the mutual agreement procedure in accordance with the minimum standard and introduces the arbitration procedure.
07/16/2021
GFSC Director General William Mason said: “We were happy to see the Guernsey Green Funds regime working to protect investors from greenwashing and to be able to take on board feedback by liberalising a couple of aspects of the reporting regime to re
07/16/2021
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a consultation paper (CP) on the review of its guidelines on delayed disclosure of inside information under the Market Abuse Regulation
07/16/2021
The Supreme Administrative Court’s decision thus follows the CJEU’s ruling.
07/16/2021
For the avoidance of any confusion, it does not discuss the recent adoption of intra-EEA controller to processor standard contractual clauses under Article 28(7) of the GDPR.
07/16/2021
The draft new VABER sets out long-awaited amendments to existing EU competition law to bring it up to date with developments in the market, especially in relation to online selling.