Welcome to the Winter 2020 edition of our corporate crime update - our round up of developments in relation to corruption, money laundering, fraud, sanctions and related matters. Our update now covers a number of jurisdictions. Read more
In this blog post, we round-up forthcoming developments in the UK and at EU and International levels in financial services regulation which are expected for March 2020. Read more
On 12 February, the FCA’s Executive Director of Enforcement and Market Oversight, Mark Steward, delivered the keynote address at the City & Financial Global Investigations and Enforcement Conference in London. This latest speech focused more broadly on the FCA’s approach to enforcement.
In this article, we explore the implications for firms of some of the key messages of the speech. Read more
In this blog post, we round-up forthcoming developments in the UK and at EU and International levels in financial services regulation which are expected for February 2020. Read more
The FCA has today written to the UK’s major retail banks, asking them to provide evidence of how they have arrived at their new overdraft interest rates, which have all been set at around 40%. The FCA also asked the banks to clarify how they will deal with customers who could be worse off following the changes, and expects firms to take “positive steps” to helps these customers – for example, by reducing or waiving interest, or offering a continuation of overdraft borrowing at current rate of interest. Read more
The FCA this week published two template ‘Dear CEO’ letters, one to asset managers and one to alternative investment firms, highlighting the FCA’s views on the key risks posed to customers and markets, and setting out its supervision strategy for the coming months. The FCA’s asset management portfolio comprises firms that predominantly directly manage mainstream … Read more
The third episode of Regulation in Focus, our podcast series of short, sharp insights into regulatory issues that matter to you, features Katherine Dillon and Emma Reid from our non-contentious financial services regulatory practice in London, discussing the role that equivalence might play in accessing EU markets post-Brexit. Read more
The FCA has published the results of its review into how asset management firms selected and used risk modelling and other portfolio management tools, focussing on how these firms are placed to respond to system failures or service interruptions which could cause serious harm to consumers or potentially damage market integrity. This review builds on … Read more
