United Kingdom

Views from London

Opinion pieces

Looking ahead to 2018 - a view from the UK - Feb 2018

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• A reflection on the current state of play regarding how EEA firms can provide financial services into the UK post Brexit (Nov 2019)
• Unfair terms under scrutiny from FCA - October 2018
• Proposed changes to eligibility requirements for guarantee CRM - May 2018
• No UK stay of creditor's enforcement of debt, despite foreign restructuring - May 2018
• UK Government Fintech strategy - May 2018
• Rules and potential pitfalls of engaging with the UK Government and public officials - May 2018
• UK Parliament debates new sanctions bill - Feb 2018
• No more LIBOR? - impact on finance agreements - Nov 2017
• UK Financial Conduct Authority enforcement themes and trends - Nov 2017
• New UK laws on tax evasion and money laundering target global financial services (Nov 2017)
• Hard lessons from the English court on legal professional privilege
• New tax evasion facilitation offences in force 30 September 2017 (Jul 2017)
• FCA Report on asset management (Jul 2017)
• Senior Managers and Certification Regime: the first year in practice (Jul 2017)
• Mandatory rules of local law do not apply to interest rate swaps between a bank and an Italian local authority (Jun 2017)
• Recent developments in immunity (Jul 2017)
• Contracting with a sovereign state: determining capacity under English and U.S. law (Jul 2017)
• Changes to financial regulators’ enforcement decision-making processes (Apr 2017)
• New monetary penalty regime for breach of financial sanctions (Mar 2017)
• Corporate criminal liability risk increases for financial services (Dec 2016)
• UK enforcement of financial sanctions likely to rise (May 2016)
• UK Bribery Act catches corporate and bank (May 2016)
• The Senior Managers and Certification Regime now in place - what next? (May 2016)
• Bitcoin and the blockchain - what has been the regulatory response? (May 2016)
• Helpful English court rulings on contract law and privilege (Jan 2016)
• Improving Large Business Tax Compliance (Oct 2015)
• ICE Benchmark Association (IBA) Second Position Paper on the evolution of ICE LIBOR (Oct 2015)
• Senior Managers Regime – proposed "u-turn" on the Presumption of Responsibility? (Oct 2015)
• New criminal offences in clampdown on tax evasion (June 2015)
• Effect of implementation of EU Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive on general securities (June 2015)
• Structured Products - FCA Thematic Review of Product Development and Governance (June 2015)
• FCA Business Plan 2015/16: Key messages for litigators and compliance officers (June 2015) 
• FCA and PRA Senior Managers and Certification Regime: An update (June 2015)
• Submission of claim in foreign insolvency proceedings torpedos exclusive English jurisdiction agreement (June 2015) 
• OECD Report on foreign bribery (June 2015) 
• Regulatory: New senior insurance managers regime (Jan 2015)
• New withholding exemption for private placements (Jan 2015)
• Diverted profits tax (Jan 2015) 
• Legal developments and regulatory trends for 2015 (Jan 2015) 
• FCA publishes draft guidance regarding how it will exercise its new competition powers (Jan 2015) 
• Update: The FCA's and PRA's new Senior Managers and Certification Regime (Jan 2015)  
• Review of FCA and PRA enforcement processes: HM Treasury publishes findings and recommendations (Jan 2015) 
• FCA and PRA policy update: Q3 2014 (Oct 2014)  
• Changes to the FCA client asset protection regime (Oct 2014)  
• UK banking reform: ring-fencing – next steps? (Oct 2014)
• Deferred prosecution agreements: a new tool for UK prosecutors (June 2014)  
• HM Treasury launches review of FCA and PRA enforcement processes (June 2014)
• Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Risk Outlook and Business Plan 2014 – key enforcement themes (June 2014)  
• Update on cross-border information exchange (June 2014)
• UK Budget 2014 – new tax anti-avoidance measures announced (June 2014)
• A new UK tax regime for regulatory capital (Jan/Feb 2014)  
• Corporate governance aspects of CRD IV (Jan/Feb 2014)  
• Debt programme updates/establishments and the amended Prospectus Directive (PD) regime (Jan/Feb 2014)  
• Impact of the Banking Reform Bill on Senior Managers (Oct 2013) 
• The FCA confirms its approach to publishing information about enforcement warning notices (Oct 2013)   
• The Financial Conduct Authority - focus on the prevention of financial crime (Oct 2013)   
• New tax regime for regulatory capital in the UK (Oct 2013)  
• Parliamentary Commission on Banking Standards (PCBS): changing banking for good (July 2013)   
• UK consultation on taxation of debt and derivatives (July 2013)  
• The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) – an update (July 2013) 
• Consumer Credit Regulation: making the move from the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (July 2013) 
• LIBOR reforms - an update (May 2013)
• Planning ahead for EU bonus caps (May 2013)