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Sustainable finance and ESG are becoming increasingly important for financial institutions and their lawyers. Our practical guidance, summaries, timelines and toolkits help practitioners navigate this complex area
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Latest Financial Services News
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a speech delivered by its chief data, information and intelligence officer, Jessica Rusu, at...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published policy statement PS25/6, establishing the final rules for the Private Intermittent Securities and...
A round-up of other developments, which have not been covered in full by the ½Û×ÓÊÓƵ Financial Services practical guidance team but may...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has appointed Sarah Pritchard as deputy chief executive to manage its expanding responsibilities, which now...
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has published its Q4 dashboard for the minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) for 2024,...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
Insurance Distribution Directive (IDD)—UK implementation and post-Brexit regimeThis Practice Note summarises the UK’s implementation of the Insurance...
Regulatory reporting requirements for consumer credit firmsThe regulatory reporting requirements contained in Chapter 16 of the Financial Conduct...
Prudential requirements for UK insurers—Pillar 1 requirementsIntroduction to the prudential regulatory framework for UK insurers within the scope of...
Insurance business transfer schemesConsistent with the common law of contract, an insurer is not able to transfer the burden of its obligations under...
Climate change litigationOver the last decades, climate change has become an issue of ever-growing importance. With evolving scientific understanding...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
Environmental Targets for a Limited Partnership Agreement (Stella & Flora’s Clause) (The Chancery Lane Project)This clause consists of amendments and...
Sustainability glossary terms (The Chancery Lane Project)These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as...
Joint and several liability clause1Joint and several liability[Except for clauses [insert],] the liabilities and obligations of [insert names of...
Dealing Procedures ManualThis precedent memorandum sets out the procedures to be followed by a listed company and its subsidiaries in relation to...
Model discretionary investment management agreementThe model discretionary investment management agreement can be found on the Investment...
Latest Financial Services Q&As
Featured Financial Services content
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)This Practice Note explains the Principles for Businesses (PRIN) set down by the Financial...
CMA identifies Monzo's breaches of Retail Banking Market Investigation Order and secures agreement for corrective action
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified several breaches by Monzo Bank Limited (Monzo) of the Retail Banking Market Investigation...
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBS
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBSThe Financial Conduct Authority Handbook (FCA Handbook) includes sourcebooks to regulate the conduct of...
Second charge mortgage regime
Second charge mortgage regimeSecond charge mortgages definedA regulated second charge mortgage is a loan secured on a borrower’s property that is used...
FCA client money rules
FCA client money rulesBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)This Practice Note explores non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) and comments on investment powers, key investor information...
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial services
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial servicesThis Practice Note provides a detailed introduction to the...
Debt sale and purchase agreements
Debt sale and purchase agreementsThe debt sale and purchase market is an important way for lenders and debt sellers to reduce balance sheet liability....
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlement
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlementIntroduction to early settlementBorrowers are entitled, at any time, to bring regulated agreements to an end....
Where a lender is required to send notices of sums in arrears on a fixed sum loan under section 86B of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (CCA 1974) and the customer clears the arrears but leaves default sums outstanding, is the lender required to keep sending subsequent notices of sums in arrears under CCA 1974, s 86B(5)(b)?
FCA Handbook—introduction
FCA Handbook—introductionBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentials
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
Credit limits
Credit limitsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the rules that apply to credit limits. A borrower will be set a credit limit on the maximum...
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirements
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirementsBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
What are regulated activities?
What are regulated activities?Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note explains what constitutes regulated activities under the UK regulatory...
MiFID and non-MiFID business
MiFID and non-MiFID businessThis Practice Note summarises what MiFID business is as the term is defined in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
Part VII Transfer of Banking Business
Part VII Transfer of Banking BusinessBackgroundAs noted in Practice Note: Insurance business transfer schemes, a regime for transferring portfolios of...
Financial Services Act 2012 [Archived]
Financial Services Act 2012The Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) received Royal Assent on 19 December 2012 and went into effect on 1 April 2013....
Associated legal terms
Exclusions
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, SI 2001/544 lists statutory exclusions which are provisions which, if complied with, turn regulated activities into unregulated activities.
Operational resilience
The ability of firms and the financial system as a whole to absorb and adapt to shocks, rather than contribute to them.
Regulated mortgage contract
This is a type of regulated investment defined in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) Order 2001, SI 2001/544, art 61(3).
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