On 6 June 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Consultation Paper 25/16: Quarterly Consultation Paper No.48 (CP25/16).

In CP25/16 the FCA sets out various miscellaneous amendments to the Handbook and these include:

• Amendments to the guidance in SUP 6.4 as a result of legislative changes introduced in section 415AA of the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (chapter 2).
• Removing reporting requirements and notifications, amending the frequency of reporting for REP009 and remove nil return requirements for REP008 (chapter 3).
• Lifting the ban on the retail sale, marketing and distribution of cryptoasset exchange traded notes (cETNs) where admitted to a UK recognised investment exchange and categorise these cETNs as Restricted Mass Market Investments (chapter 4).
• Amending the UK EMIR reporting requirements to trade repositories (chapter 5).
• Amending SUP 16 and DISP (relating to the same change) to move the scheduling of existing Consumer Credit data Return CCR007 to calendar year reporting periods (chapter 6).
• Reducing the assessment of value reporting for authorised fund managers (chapter 7).

Next steps

The deadline for comments on CP25/16 is as follows:

• 30 June 2025 for chapters 3 and 5.
• 7 July 2025 for chapter 4.
• 14 July 2025 for chapters 2, 6 and 7.