General
- Decentralised financial technologies and their implications for financial stability - FSB publishes report
- How to address market fragmentation - FSB publishes report
- Cross-border regulation - speech by Steven Maijoor, Chair of ESMA, to the Federation of European Securities Exchanges Convention
- Regulation of pre-paid funeral plans - HM Treasury launches consultation on policy proposal
- Decarbonisation of the UK economy and green finance - Treasury Committee launches inquiry
- The Prescribed Persons (Reports on Disclosures of Information) Regulations 2017 - Bank of England and PRA publish annual report
- Managing machines: the governance of artificial intelligence - speech by James Proudman, Bank of England
- Bank of England Annual Report and Accounts 2019 - published by the Bank of England
- Annual Report 2019 - published by the PRA
- What we expect of claims management companies - FCA publishes ‘Dear CEO’ letter
- FCA appoints new Chair at the Financial Ombudsman Service
- Inadequate FCA complaints handling - Complaints Commissioner upholds complaints
Brexit
- FCA and the Dutch AFM sign agreement on closer partnership
Banking and Finance
- Resolvability of G-SIBs - FSB publishes two Discussion Papers for consultation
- CRD IV - amending Implementing Regulation published in the Official Journal
- Banking Union - Council of the EU publishes progress report
- Benchmarking national loan enforcement frameworks - European Commission accepts EBA request for an extension
- FCA Policy Statement PS19/14 - loan-based (‘peer-to-peer’) and investment-based crowdfunding platforms
- LINK interchange fees - PSR publishes Consultation Paper
Securities and Markets
- Regulation of crypto-assets - FSB publishes report
- Overnight risk-free rates - FSB publishes user guide
- Sustainable finance - IOSCO publishes final report on emerging markets and the role of securities regulators
- Market fragmentation and cross-border regulation - IOSCO publishes report
- CCP default management auctions - IOSCO and CPMI publish discussion paper
- MiFIR - ESMA publishes supervisory briefing on commodity derivatives pre-trade transparency regime
- MiFID II - ESMA launches a common supervisory action with NCAs on appropriateness rules
- MiFID II/MiFIR - ESMA updates Q&As on transparency
- MiFID II – ESMA publishes translations of Guidelines on the application of C6 and C7 of Annex 1
- Transition from LIBOR to risk-free rates - PRA and FCA publish joint statement
- FCA Policy Statement PS19/12 - changes to align the FCA Handbook with the EU Prospectus Regulation: feedback to CP19/6
- FCA Policy Statement PS19/13 - proposals to promote shareholder engagement: Feedback to CP19/7 and final rules
- FCA Policy Statement PS19/15: Securitisation (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 and Securitisation Regulations 2018 (near final and final rules)
- Euro-risk free rates - EMMI adopts methodology recommended by ECB working group
Asset Management
- AIFMD and UCITS Directive - ESMA publishes updated Q&As
Insurance
- Solvency II - EIOPA launches consultation on draft Opinion on sustainability
Enforcement
- Breach of Listing Principles and DTRs - FCA publishes provisional Decision Notices fining a firm and two directors
- Michel Schyns v Belfius Banque SA
- R (on the application of KBR, Inc) v Director of the Serious Fraud Office, appeal against [2018] EWHC 2368
Contacts
Elizabeth Prentice (professional support lawyer)
