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A step forward or backward? FSA to be broken up

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • June 21 2010

In a speech at the Lord Mayor's Dinner on 16 June 2010 (the "Mansion House Speech"), George Osborne, the new Chancellor appointed by the Conservative-led coalition government, unveiled far-reaching changes to the regulatory architecture of the UK financial system

Product intervention in the UK and the new FCA

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 5 2011

As we have previously discussed, the UK Financial Services Authority (the “FSA”) signalled a sea change in the way retail financial products will be regulated in the UK in its Discussion Paper on product intervention published in January 2011 (the “Discussion Paper”

Product intervention

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • July 7 2011

As we have previously discussed, the UK Financial Services Authority (the “FSA”) signaled a sea change in the way retail financial products will be regulated in the UK in its Discussion Paper on product intervention published in January 2011 (the “Discussion Paper”

FSA product intervention

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • March 14 2011

As the UK's Financial Services Authority (FSA) itself would agree, its January 2011 Discussion Paper on product intervention signals a sea-change in the way retail financial products will be regulated in the UK

"R&R" the hard way the FSA's consultation on recovery and resolution

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 19 2011

The UK’s Financial Services Authority (“FSA”) published its consultation paper on Recovery and Resolution plans on 9 August 2011

SIFI resolutions and living wills: the financial stability board proposal (and some U.S. and UK observations)

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom, USA
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  • August 19 2011

On July 19, 2011, as part of a broad program to enhance the regulation of systemically important financial institutions (“SIFIs”), the Financial Stability Board (“FSB”) published a consultative document, “Effective Resolution of Systemically Important Financial Institutions” (the “FSB Paper”

Final structured products guidance from the FSA

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
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  • United Kingdom
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  • April 2 2012

In an earlier issue of Structured Thoughts, we highlighted the guidance consultation of the UK’s Financial Services Authority in relation to structured products

UK Treasury consultation on the new financial regulatory structure in the UK

  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • -
  • United Kingdom
  • -
  • August 3 2010

On 26 July 2010, HM Treasury (“HMT”) published a consultation paper entitled “A New Approach to Financial Regulation: Judgement, Focus and Stability.”