On 4 November 2025, the Financial Action Task Force (FATF) issued Asset Recovery Guidance and Best Practices.
The FATF revised its Recommendations on asset recovery and related international co-operation in October 2023 and made corresponding changes to the FATF Assessment Methodology in June 2024. These changes signal that asset recovery must become
On 27 October 2025, there was published on legislation.gov.uk a draft of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Regulated Activities) (ESG Ratings) Order 2025 together with an explanatory memorandum.
The draft Order brings the provision of an Environmental, Social or Governance (ESG) rating into regulation under the Financial Services and Markets Act
On 22 October 2025, the European Parliament rejected the negotiating mandate proposed by the Legal Affairs Committee on the European Commission’s Omnibus proposal to reduce the scope of the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive and the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive.
Following the rejection and in line with Rule 72(3) of the European Parliament’s Rules of
The FCA’s consultation paper on a motor finance consumer redress scheme (the Scheme) has now been published in CP 25/27. The FCA’s analysis suggests that the motor finance industry is set to provide over £8bn in redress, but is also likely to spend almost £3bn to implement the Scheme; confirming that – as
On 11 September 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new webpage sharing examples of good practice and areas for improvement from authorisation and registration applications it has seen. The webpage should be read in conjunction with the FCA’s authorisations webpage.
The good practice and areas for improvement are set out
In the latest episode of our mini-series on the Chancellor’s Mansion House speech and Leeds Reforms, Katie Stephen, Matthew Gregory, Haney Saadah and Catherine Pluck discuss the proposals in relation to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, as well as the proposals around authorisations.
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In this podcast Matthew Gregory, Haney Saadah and Janna Garcia discuss the Financial Conduct Authority’s recent multi-firm review of risk management and wind-down planning
at e-money and payments firms alongside the regulator’s Dear CEO letter from earlier this year which outlined the FCA’s priorities for payments firms.
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On 4 July 2025, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a Delegated Regulation amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/2178 as regards the simplification of the content and presentation of information to be disclosed concerning environmentally sustainable activities and Commission Delegated Regulations (EU) 2021/2139 and (EU) 2023/2486 as regards simplification of certain technical screening criteria
This podcast is the second in a mini-series discussing risk assessments, which are the cornerstone of an effective risk and compliance program and necessary in a number of areas to meet UK regulatory requirements. The first of our podcasts in the series focused on the new failure to prevent fraud offence which comes into force