As 2024 draws to a close, Hong Kong has delivered on its promise by unveiling its draft Stablecoins Bill, a comprehensive framework for regulating fiat-referenced stablecoin issuers in Hong Kong. The bill generally aligns with the consultation conclusions of the stablecoin regime (finalized July 2024) and solidifies the Hong Kong Monetary Authority’s (HKMA
In this new edition of Regulation Around the World we review the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty (UK Consumer Duty) and see if other international financial services authorities have already got similar concepts in their frameworks; or whether the UK Consumer Duty not only sets a new UK standard
I wanted to make some brief comments on CP24/21 relating to investment research payment optionality for fund managers. The punchline is that the FCA is going to take the same line in liberalising the regime for fund managers as it has for investment managers of segregated portfolios. This will apply not just to unregulated AIFs
Market Watch 81 might on a first pass appear relatively uncontroversial in giving feedback on the FCA’s recent findings on transaction reporting. I would say that one should think again on this and suggest that there is a lot of food for thought here.
The basics on the Market Watch are set out in our
In the latest podcast in our EMEA regulatory insights series Anna Carrier from our Brussels office discusses the recent changes to the European Regulation on wholesale energy market integrity and transparency (REMIT 2).
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On 25 October 2024, the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/2759 relating to European long-term investment funds was published in the Official Journal of the European Union (OJ). It enters into force on the day following its publication.
The Delegated Regulation contains regulatory technical standards (RTS) guiding ELTIF managers on how to
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On 17 October 2024, HM Treasury (HMT) issued a consultation paper (CP) which sets out the government’s approach to regulating buy now pay later (BNPL). This CP builds on HMT’s previous consultations that ran between February 2023 and April 2023.
HMT’s latest CP is accompanied by a draft
There are two methods which allow the marketing of alternative investment funds (AIFs) in the EU by alternative investment fund managers (AIFMs). The first method is a marketing “passport” which has been introduced by the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) to allow AIFs to be marketed to professional
In the latest instalment of our Regulation Around the World series, Financial Services partners in 15 jurisdictions cover recent developments concerning anti-money laundering.
Our global updater is accompanied by further analysis and insights in our Regulation Around the World podcast which is available now to stream and download. The podcast features speakers from the
In the summer of 2023, the European Commission issued a payment services legislative package which amends the existing Payment Services Directive 2 (PSD2). A new Directive, PSD3, was proposed together with a Regulation, the Payment Services Regulation (PSR). In addition, a further Regulation was proposed, a Regulation on a Framework for