by Emma Cleveland | 2017-01-25 | Industry News
House of Commons Treasury Select Committee – EU exit and transitional arrangements As part of its inquiry into the UK’s future economic relationship with the EU, the Treasury Committee has recently issued a call for written submissions on transitional...
by Emma Cleveland | 2017-01-05 | Industry News
The FCA published Policy Statement PS14/4 relating to new rules to protect investors on loan-based and investment-based crowdfunding platforms in February 2014, which generally came into force on 1 April 2014. Loan-based crowdfunding platforms are those through which...
by Emma Cleveland | 2016-11-24 | Industry News
Introduction The European Securities and Markets Authority (“ESMA”) has published a new set of Q&As on transparency topics under MiFID II and MiFIR. The purpose of the Q&As is to promote common supervisory approaches and practices in the application of MiFID...
by Emma Cleveland | 2016-11-16 | Industry News
Introduction The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a consultation paper on the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) that it is required to draft under Article 65(8)(c) of MiFID II with regard to the consolidated tape for non-equity...
by Emma Cleveland | 2016-10-19 | Industry News
The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (the “Committee”) has recently published a report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU financial system. Introduction The UK’s decision to leave the EU highlights uncertainties in the EU financial systems....
by Emma Cleveland | 2016-10-06 | Industry News
On 20 September 2016, HM Treasury released their consultation to amend the definition of financial advice (the “Consultation”). This Consultation is the product of the Financial Advice Market Review (the “Review”) which was launched by HM Treasury and the FCA in March...
