by Leela | 2023-06-21 | Industry News
The Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) Consumer Duty will come into force on 31 July 2023. From this date, the Consumer Duty rules will apply to all existing in-scope products or services that are available for sale or renewal. By this date, firms...
by Leela | 2023-06-13 | Our Thinking
The EU General Court has overruled the European Data Protection Supervisor and held that pseudonymised data will not be deemed personal data for the purposes of EU data protection law when transferred to a recipient that is unable to link the pseudonyms to...
by Leela | 2023-06-08 | Our Thinking
Following on from our fourth summary on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) discussion paper titled “Updating and Enhancing the UK Asset Management Regime” (DP23/2), we have produced a fifth and final summary centred on improving the fund...
by Leela | 2023-06-06 | Our Thinking
Following on from our six-part series on the sustainability disclosure regulations established by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), we look at UK SDR and other regimes. On 25 October 2022, the FCA released a Consultation Paper on UK Sustainability...
by Leela | 2023-05-18 | Our Thinking
In our final guide on the sustainability disclosure regulations established by the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”), we look at Distributors. The FCA intends to impose a couple of obligations on distributors who offer products to retail investors…...
by Leela | 2023-05-17 | Our Thinking
In June 2021, the European Union (EU) introduced a new set of Standard Contractual Clauses (“SCCs”) for the purpose of transferring EU personal data. The United Kingdom (UK) implemented its own International Data Transfer Agreement (“IDTA”) for...
by Victoria Smith | 2023-05-10 | Industry News
The Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCA) framework was first introduced in 2020 as a proposal to regulate crypto-asset markets in the European Union It is due to come into effect by mid-2024 and so crypto-assets issuers and crypto-assets service providers will...
by Leela | 2023-05-04 | Our Thinking
In our fourth summary on the Financial Conduct Authority’s (“FCA”) consultation paper titled “Updating and Enhancing the UK Asset Management Regime” (DP23/2), we build on our previous overview on the structure of the asset management...
by Leela | 2023-05-03 | Our Thinking
On 12 April 2023, the European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) – comprising the European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”), the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (“EIOPA”), and the European...
by Leela | 2023-05-02 | Our Thinking
In the fifth instalment of our series of six comprehensive guides on the FCA’s sustainability disclosure regulations, we focus on the Anti-Greenwashing Rule. The FCA’s proposal in the Consultation Paper provides rules in which firms will need to take into...