On 8 September 2026, the UK Parliament reported that members of the House of Lords continued their further examination of the Financial Services and Markets Bill in report stage on Tuesday 8th and Wednesday 9th September 2026.
On day one of the report stage members put forward and discussed over 30 amendments to the bill.
On 7 September 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a new web page, Defence, Security, and Resilience Lab: lessons for firms.
The web page reflects certain discussions following a meeting of around 120 leaders from financial services, government and defence for the Defence, Security, and Resilience (DSR) Lab.
Among
On 4 September 2026, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1092 of 21 May 2026 supplementing Directive 2014/65/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards for the establishment of an EU code of conduct for issuer-sponsored research. The Delegated Regulation
On 1 September 2026, the Joint Money Laundering Steering Group published final amendments to various paragraphs within Part I of its guidance.
These include revisions to paragraphs:
The
On 24 August 2026, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht – BaFin) published Circular 09/2026 (WA), setting out the Minimum Requirements for the Risk Management of Investment Firms (WpI MaRisk).
For the first time, BaFin has adopted a targeted regulatory approach specifically designed for smaller and medium-sized investment firms, replacing
In its factsheet Finfluencer – Tipps für verantwortungsvolle Werbung, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht or Bafin) previously emphasised that advising others as to which investments they should make, or refrain from making, may amount to regulated investment advice.
By way of background, finfluencers will not ordinarily satisfy the statutory
The FCA has issued a large number of deregulatory papers in the last few months. Many of these might be viewed as making incremental or technical changes. However, I think it is fair to say that the FCA’s consultation on remuneration for solo regulated firms represents real change and liberalisation of the remuneration regime. I
On 6 August 2026, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM) published an update on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (Regulation (EU) 2022/2554, DORA). This update focuses on the progress of the financial sector since the introduction of DORA.
The AFM has noticed strong improvement in the
On 9 July 2026, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, AFM) issued a news update on the findings of an exploratory study of the online choice environment of platforms that offer embedded insurance.
The study shows that these environments often contain several elements that may encourage consumers to