FCA’s Consumer Duty – Is your firm ready?

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...

FCA: Improving the fund rules

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...

UK SDR and other regimes

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...

SDR Deep-dive 6. Distributors

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…...