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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 Law Commission has published a document addressing frequently asked questions (FAQs) about digital assets in private international law, with a...
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI), and the International Organization...
The BIS Innovation Hub (the Hub) has published its 2025-26 work programme, an update on its mission and recent activities. The Hub aims to foster...
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published its 2024 consumer trends report, highlighting the main trends in...
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published its workplan for 2025. This outlines the FMSB's focus areas which include reducing...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
EEA passporting rights under the Mortgage Credit DirectiveThis Practice Note sets out the passporting rights and related notification requirements of...
OFSI General Licence trackerThis Practice Note tracks General Licences issued by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation (OFSI) under the UK...
EU CRD IV package—essentialsThis Practice Note introduces key concepts in the EU’s package of prudential measures, the Capital Requirements Directive...
Access to CCPs, trading venues and benchmarks under EU MiFIRThis Practice Note provides an overview of the provisions for non-discriminatory access to...
PRA enforcement essentials—publicityThis Practice Note sets out the statutory framework under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA 2000)...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
Environmental Targets for a Limited Partnership Agreement (Stella & Flora’s Clause) (The Chancery Lane Project)Additional/Amended Recital:[Name of...
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Model discretionary investment management agreementThe model discretionary investment management agreement can be found on the Investment...
Specimen Dealing CodeThis Precedent is a memorandum that sets out the details of the ‘specimen’ dealing code. The specimen dealing code is the product...
Specimen Group-Wide Dealing PolicyThis precedent memorandum sets out a ‘specimen’ group-wide dealing policy published by The Chartered Governance...
Latest Financial Services Q&As
Featured Financial Services content
The Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)
The Money Laundering Reporting Officer (MLRO)This Practice Note provides information on the role of the nominated officer and the Money Laundering...
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...
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...
Financial Conduct Authority—objectives and principles
Financial Conduct Authority—objectives and principlesThe role of the FCAThe Financial Conduct authority (FCA) forms part of the regulatory structure...
Accepting deposits
Accepting depositsBackground to the regulated activity of accepting depositsUnder section 19 of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA...
What is electronic money?
What is electronic money?BREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Fund management—Cayman Islands—Q&A guide
Fund management—Cayman Islands—Q&A guideThis Practice Note contains a jurisdiction-specific Q&A guide to fund management in Cayman Islands published...
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBS
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBSBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)This Practice Note explores non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) and comments on investment powers, new rules on NURS...
Complying with the collective investment schemes sourcebook (COLL)
Complying with the collective investment schemes sourcebook (COLL)The Financial Conduct Authority’s Collective Investment Schemes Sourcebook (COLL) is...
Different types of short selling
Different types of short sellingShort selling: the two key typesRegulation (EU) 236/2012 (OJ L 86/1) (the EU Short Selling Regulation) came into force...
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)?
What are regulated activities?
What are regulated activities?Under the general prohibition a person cannot carry out a regulated activity, or purport to carry out a regulated...
Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs)
Multilateral Trading Facilities (MTFs)BREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
Regulated activities relating to dormant assets
Regulated activities relating to dormant assetsBackground to regulated activities relating to handling dormant assetsUnder section 19 of the Financial...
UK regulation of payment services providers—essentials
UK regulation of payment services providers—essentialsScope of this Practice NoteThe Payment Services Regulations 2017, SI 2017/752 (PSRs 2017)...
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentials
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
Complaints handling by financial services firms
Complaints handling by financial services firmsCORONAVIRUS (COVID-19): The FCA has issued a statement setting out its expectations on complaints...
Associated legal terms
Article 72C exclusion
Exclusion which applies when providing information to a policyholder or potential policyholder and means that the solicitor is not arranging and assisting in the performance of a contract of insurance
BIMBO/‘buy-in management buyout’
A BIMBO enables a company to re-shuffle its allocation of share capital to bring about a change in management. Internally, a group of managers will acquire enough share capital to ‘buy out’ the company from within. An outside team of managers will simultaneously ‘buy in’ to the company management. Both parties may require financial assistance from venture capitalists in order to achieve this end.
RTGS
Real time gross settlement (RTGS) is an infrastructure operated by the Bank of England that holds accounts for banks, building societies and other institutions. The balances in these accounts can be used to move money in real time between these account holders.
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