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FCA consults on post-Brexit divergence for PRIIPS regulation

This has led HM Treasury to confirm that the UK will diverge from EU PRIIPs regulation to better protect its consumers.

Bill Kambas and David Stein featured in Business Insider list

Business Insider highlights their extensive experience advising wealthy families and business owners.

Monitor Deloitte's UK leader lays down law on staffing

The diversity of work and steep learning curve of strategy and management consulting mean that it remains one of the most popular careers among graduates.

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.

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.

New ESMA Guidelines For Fund Marketing Communications

The Guidelines have been issued in the context of the new EU regime on the cross-border distribution of investment funds

The Law Commission Consultation paper: rethinking the identification principle?

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"

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.

Financial Regulation Update

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.

Davy fund unit to be sold separately to Bank of Ireland deal

Sale of entire assets, including excess cash reserves, set to generate more than €500m

FCA commits to being a more innovative, assertive and adaptive regulator

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.

Deutsche Bank’s Spanish mis-selling scandal widens

Internal investigation is examining as many as 100 cases tied to the sale of currency derivatives

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.

FCA publishes Annual Report and Accounts 2020/21

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.

European Green Deal: Commission proposes transformation of EU economy and society to meet climate ambitions

Achieving these emission reductions in the next decade is crucial to Europe becoming the world's first climate-neutral continent by 2050

FCA to strengthen headcount with new offices in Leeds, Belfast and Cardiff

The Business Plan sets out the key areas of focus for the FCA in the coming year.

Mutual societies: ESG regulation and enforcement

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.

Switzerland and Japan sign protocol of amendment to double taxation agreement

It also supplements the provision on the mutual agreement procedure in accordance with the minimum standard and introduces the arbitration procedure.

GFSC updates Guernsey Green Fund rules

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

Financial Regulation: Daily Update

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

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