UK and EU FS regulation—timelines

This Overview is a guide to the Financial Services content within the UK and EU financial services regulation horizon scanner, trackers and timelines subtopic, with links to the appropriate materials.

The Financial Services team's UK and EU financial services regulation timelines are a series of chronological timelines monitoring developments related to the UK and EU regimes, including key EU regulations and directives (tracking the creation of Level 1 texts, the adoption of Level 2 acts (including delegated regulations and technical standards) and Level 3 guidelines as well as national implementation, where applicable).

As well as being listed in the UK and EU financial services regulation timelines subtopic, the timelines are also located in the relevant subtopic in the Financial Services topic tree (as indicated below) together with additional content.

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Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)—timeline [Archived]—find this timeline, along with further information on AIFMD, in Financial Services Alternative investment funds (AIFs)—overview
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AML/CTF legal and regulatory regimes for financial services firms—timeline [Archived]—find this timeline, along with further information on the anti-money laundering (AML) and counter-terrorist financing (CTF) legal

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