Macfarlanes hosted a virtual outsourcing forum on 30 September, which brought together lawyers specialising in outsourcing and technology...

The Productive Finance Working Group has published its recommendations to UK policymakers to remove barriers to investment by retirement...

With less than four months to go before the FCA turns off the supply of daily LIBOR (in its well-used form) for most of the 35...

The rush to regulate financial markets to produce ESG outcomes has brought focus to a problem: in the absence of good quality ESG data...

The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has published a wide-ranging consultation report on its "recommendations...

The European Commission has launched a consultation on the EU securitisation framework. The consultation covers the following issues:

• the...

The FCA has published its 2021/22 business plan. The publication of the plan was slightly delayed, which is perhaps unsurprising given...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Bank of England (the regulators) have published a...

EBA consults on risk retention

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched a consultation on draft regulatory technical standards...

The temporary clearing exemption for pension scheme arrangements, set out in article 89(1) of EU EMIR (as amended by EMIR Refit), has been

The FCA has now provided its feedback on its first consultation papers on the new UK prudential regime for MiFID investment firms (IFPR)...

The financial trade press (e.g. see Financial News) is reporting that certain EU regulators have questioned the ability for a UK firm to...

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has imposed a £178,000 fine (reduced from £236,740 to avoid serious financial hardship) on Sapien...

A recent FT Alphaville article considers the state of play in the ongoing transition from LIBOR and usefully focuses on the market...

The FCA has published its long awaited consultation on the creation of a Long Term Asset Fund (LTAF). The LTAF is an open-ended...

The FT has reported that Ares have raised an €11bn fund.  According to Prequin this will be Europe’s largest fund of its type. In...