On 8 September 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Market Watch 83.
In this Market Watch, the FCA shares its observations from a series of reviews of corporate finance firms that provide advisory and corporate broking services to small and mid-cap companies. These reviews focused on firms’ systems and controls for
On 9 July 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority published the official translations of its guidelines on supervisory practices for competent authorities to prevent and detect market abuse under the Markets in Crypto Assets Regulation. The guidelines apply from three months after this date (9 October 2025).
Recent tariff developments have transformed the international trade landscape with consequent market volatility. In our latest podcast, Katie Stephen, Hannah Meakin and Catherine Pluck discuss the impact of volatility on market abuse risk, as well as some of the key practical steps that firms can take to mitigate that risk.
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In the current geopolitical climate, with the imposition of tariffs and associated macroeconomic uncertainty, publicly traded companies across sectors will need to consider the potential impact on their business in the context of their ongoing disclosure obligations. This new briefing note focuses on some of the key areas that companies with shares admitted to the
On 16 December 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a discussion paper, DP24/4, on admissions and disclosures (A&D) and the market abuse regime for cryptoassets (MARC).
The proposals
The FCA has published DP24/4 to help inform the development of its rules for cryptoasset A&D and the MARC.
Last month the FCA published Primary Market Bulletin 52 (PMB 52) discussing a number of potential issues, and practical steps for issuers to consider, in relation to the identification, handling and dissemination of inside information in accordance with the UK Market Abuse Regulation.
In our latest briefing we summarise the areas covered in
On 9 October 2024, the Securities and Futures Commission (SFC) issued a circular (the Circular) stating its intention to place greater emphasis on the supervision of asset management firms and reminding personnel of their regulatory obligations, after it identified various deficiencies and substandard conduct in respect of the management of private