by Emma Cleveland | 2015-12-02 | Industry News
In November 2015, as part of the Financial Conduct Authority’s Project Innovate, the FCA published a call for input in regards to supporting the development and adoption of RegTech. With its publication, the regulator aims to help the UK capitalise on the development...
by Emma Cleveland | 2015-11-25 | Industry News
On 9 November the Financial Stability Board, chaired by Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England, published its first annual report to the G20 on the Implementation and effects of the G20 financial regulatory reforms. In the report the FSB identified three key...
by Emma Cleveland | 2015-11-19 | Industry News
In a publication from 10 November 2015, the Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has announced its plans for implementing a ‘regulatory sandbox’ allowing businesses to test out new and innovative financial products, services or business models without incurring all the...
by Emma Cleveland | 2015-11-11 | Industry News
The MiFID II Regulatory and Implementing Technical Standards presented to the ESMA Board of Supervisors (“BoS”) on 24 September have now been published. On 22 October 2015 the FCA held a MiFID II Implementation roundtable meeting where the standards along with various...
by Emma Cleveland | 2015-11-05 | Industry News
In a speech held on 19 October 2015, as part of the FCA’s MiFID II conference, David Lawton, the FCA’s Director of Markets Policy and International, talked about the road and steps ahead in regards to the upcoming directive and in particular, the draft technical...