2 minCould your Wind Down Plan trigger a liquidity requirement?The FCA issued ‘Finalised Guidance 20/1 - Our framework: Assessing Adequate Financial Resources’ in June 2020 in a bid to ensure that...
1 minAdvising on business relief opportunities Assessing business relief opportunities can be a complex business. Individuals often approach financial advisers to guide them on the...
2 min'Use it or lose it': the permissions review The FCA is reminding firms to review their permissions, checking that they are using them and relinquishing any they are not. This is...
1 minConsultation Paper: New Prudential Regime for Investment FirmsThe much-awaited consultation paper on the new UK Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR), was released in December. Full details can be fo
1 minAdempi makes the 2020 P2P Power 50Each year Peer2Peer Finance News pulls together the list of individuals that have had helped to shape the peer-to-peer lending (P2P)...
2 minPost-Brexit clarity is one step closerWith the transition period coming to a close and no certainty of any form of agreement, both the FCA and firms have had their work cut...
1 minFCA launches the RegData platformThe transition of firms from Gabriel to RegData begins in October 2020. Firms will be moved in tranches to the new regulatory reporting syst
1 minAdempi sponsors Growth Investor Awards 2020Adempi returns as a sponsor of the 2020 Growth Investor Awards and will be sponsoring the award for Most Impactful Investment.
2 minThe KIDS (still) aren’t alrightKey Information Documents, KIDs, have been the source of much controversy. Now for the UK it seems that the tide is turning.
1 minGrace period for complaints handling endsThe FCA considers firms have had sufficient time to overcome the practical challenges that may have make responding to consumer...
1 min6 targeted actions for CEOs of payments and e-money institutionsA portfolio strategy letter was sent to the CEOs of payment institutions (PIs) & e-money institutions (EMIs) highlighting 6 key action areas
2 minWill approving non-group company promotions to be a thing of the past?The Treasury will be reviewing the process by which FCA authorised firms sign off financial promotions for third parties.
1 minSustainability-related disclosures in financial services Environmental, social and governance (ESG) matters will become ever more important in the financial sector once the Disclosure Regulation
2 minExtended period to implement SM&CRIt is now expected that firms will have a deadline of 31 March 2021 by which to have undertaken all certifications for the first time.
1 minClimate disclosures for listed companiesThe FCA has proposed new rules for listed companies that require climate related disclosures to be made.
3 minHere To Stay? Speculative Illiquid Security rules to be made permanentthe FCA has published the consultation extending the ban on speculative illiquid securities. This is so that the temporary intervention whi
2 minFirm survey on Financial ResilienceThe FCA is to survey 13,000 firms on the financial impact of Covid-19
1 minWill the gap close? Safeguarding vs holding client moneymore focus is being placed on an area that has needed looking at for some time: the difference between the CASS and the safeguarding rules
2 minWind down planning is here to stayHow ready is your wind down plan? You won't be alone if the need for such a plan sounds like a new development, but all of the regulator's
1 minEntrepreneurialism in the workplaceFresh ideas, approaches and techniques help businesses to stay ahead of the game, but how do we bring more entrepreneurial thinking into our
