On 28 May 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published two further consultation papers (CPs) on cryptoasset regulation – CP25/14 on stablecoin issuance and cryptoasset custody and CP25/15 on a proposed prudential regime for cryptoasset firms.
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The Government plans to create a UK financial services regulatory regime for cryptoassets
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Split the Difference, Jonathan Herbst, Hannah Meakin, Anna Carrier and Simon Lovegrove cover the draft UK legislation for regulating cryptoassets and recent FCA discussion paper and compare it with the EU Regulation on markets in cryptoassets regulation.
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On 19 May 2025, the UK Prime Minister hosted the President of the European Council and the President of the European Commission (Commission) in London for the first UK-EU summit since the UK’s departure from the EU. Amongst the various agreements, this included a new common understanding between the Commission and the
On 19 May 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Regulation (EU) 2025/914 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 7 May 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 as regards the scope of the rules for benchmarks, the use in the Union of benchmarks provided by an
In the latest edition of our podcast series, Split the Difference, Hannah Meakin, Nikolai de Koning, Anna Carrier and Simon Lovegrove discuss upcoming changes to the EU Benchmarks Regulation and compare the UK and EU regimes.
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On 2 May 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Discussion Paper 25/1: Regulating cryptoasset activities (DP25/1).
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DP25/1 is the latest policy publication in the FCA’s crypto roadmap on the future of cryptoasset regulation. So far, the FCA has published DP23/4 in November 2023 on developing a regime for fiat-backed
On 29 April 2025, HM Treasury (HMT) published a draft statutory instrument (SI), the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities and Miscellaneous Provisions) (Cryptoassets) Order 2025, which sets out provisions to create a new regulatory regime for cryptoassets. An accompanying draft policy note has also been published.
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In the latest episode of our podcast series, Hannah Meakin, Saaraa Alimahomed and Simon Lovegrove discuss carbon trading, and the UK financial service regime.
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In the latest episode of our Let’s talk asset management series, Hannah Meakin, Lucy Dodson and Simon Lovegrove discuss the recent papers issued by HM Treasury and the Financial Conduct Authority to streamline the regulatory framework for the alternative investment management sector to promote economic growth.
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