18 Mar, 2024 UK AIFMD reforms: further divergence from the EU and a potential relaxation to smaller full scope AIFM requirements By Harriet Miller Gavin Haran On 1 March 2024, the FCA published a letter to CEOs of asset managers and alternatives firms, outlining its supervisory and regulatory...
19 Dec, 2023 COP28: renewed climate commitments follow first global stocktake By Rachel Richardson Praveen Gopalan Finn Waldron The 2023 United Nations Climate Conference of Parties (COP28) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC)...
12 Dec, 2023 UK announces new sanctions agency – OTSI – to launch in 2024 By Helen Harvey On 11 December 2023, the UK government announced the creation of the Office for Trade Sanctions Implementation (OTSI) as part of the...
24 Nov, 2023 Autumn Statement 2023 - private client perspective By Nicholas Harries Klara Kronbergs After much speculation concerning significant reforms to inheritance tax (IHT) - including a cut to the headline rate, an increase to the...
18 Oct, 2023 FCA to reform the UK's AIFMD and NURS regimes By Lora Froud Gavin Haran The Chair of the FCA, Ashley Alder, gave a speech on 11 October 2023 outlining the regulator’s approach to the reform of the UK’s asset...
06 Jul, 2023 Ratcheting regulatory interest in sustainability-linked loans By Jamie Macpherson Rachel Richardson Andrew Perkins Adam Caines +1 more... Show less The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has made clear its concerns regarding the "greenwashing" potential of sustainability-linked loans...
31 May, 2023 Government rejects proposal for further regulation in the secondary ticketing sector By Martha Campbell Matthew Bennett The UK government has formally responded to the CMA’s call for greater regulation of the secondary ticketing market, announcing this...
03 Apr, 2023 Best laid (economic crime) plans: the usual government rhetoric or an actual step forward? By Helen Harvey Joshua Rutt Recognising the increasing threat to the UK’s national security and prosperity, on 30 March, HM Treasury and the Home Office published...
16 Mar, 2023 Chancellor announces one of the biggest changes to pensions tax rules - what it means in practice By Faye Jarvis Scarlett Yu The UK Government has today announced some significant changes to the pension tax allowances: the lifetime allowance will be abolished...
20 Dec, 2022 Could Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) be about to bite? By Ellie Herve In 2015, the Government introduced the Minimum Energy Efficiency Standards (MEES) to look to drive improvements in the energy efficiency...
14 Dec, 2022 Will the Edinburgh Reforms make a difference? By Alexandra Green Michael Sholem Gavin Haran On 9 December, the Chancellor announced a package of over 30 reforms to the UK’s financial regulations, an attempt to achieve the biggest...
29 Nov, 2022 Transparency, but not at any cost By Dominic Sedghi In a significant judgment, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has struck down provisions of European Union law that give...
29 Nov, 2022 A new dawn for EU "substance" requirements? By Gavin Haran At the Irish Funds’ UK symposium on 24 November, the Central Bank of Ireland’s (CBI's) Derville Rowland made an ominous remark in her...
18 Nov, 2022 Autumn Statement 2022 - full steam ahead for UK implementation of global minimum tax By Macfarlanes The Chancellor has confirmed that the UK Government is to press ahead across the board with UK implementation of the new global minimum...
17 Nov, 2022 Autumn Statement 2022 – more tax but no major policy changes for private clients By Clare Wilson Following the economic turmoil resulting from Kwasi Kwarteng’s (now largely reversed) “Growth Plan” on 23 September, Jeremy Hunt was...
02 Nov, 2022 The Gordian knot of business rates By Cate Taylor On Thursday 17 November, the Chancellor of the Exchequer Jeremy Hunt is on track to take his red box to Parliament to deliver one of the...