Financial Services Regulatory

The pace of change and increasing complexity of financial services regulation makes it harder than ever to ensure compliance. We provide expert advice on financial services regulation to banks, asset managers, securities brokers, insurers and insurance brokers, financial advisers, payment services firms, e-money providers and consumer credit firms.

Overview

We have expertise in all aspects of regulation of financial services businesses by the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority including:

  • obtaining authorisation for new businesses.
  • launch of new service lines and products.
  • change of control approval for acquisition of regulated firms.
  • transfer of books of business including court-sanctioned transfers of banking and insurance business under Part VII FSMA.
  • ongoing conduct of business, including the Consumer Duty.
  • consumer credit.
  • payment services and e-money.
  • business risks, including anti-money laundering and sanctions controls and anti-market abuse procedures.
  • trading controls in asset managers and broking businesses and dealing with trading errors.
  • capital requirements.
  • client money and assets.
  • regulatory reporting and notifications.
  • governance and the Senior Managers and Certification Regime.
  • customer complaints and the Financial Ombudsman Service.
  • handling regulatory breaches, including internal investigations and customer remediation.
  • regulatory change programmes.
  • regulatory interventions including imposition of requirements and variations of permission.
  • responding to enforcement investigations and defending enforcement proceedings.

Featured experience

  • Advising a major insurance firm on a Part VII transfer of insurance business.
  • Authorisation applications for the launch of a new bank and a new life assurance company.
  • Advising asset managers on anti-market abuse controls and internal investigations into suspected market abuse.
  • Advising asset managers on handling trading error incidents.

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Financial Services Regulatory key contacts

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