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Renewable energy update
12 Aug 2022 Japan's renewable FIP scheme and recent changes to the regime for battery storage
Battery energy storage systems ("BESS") are playing an increasingly important role in the transition towards net zero. This briefing note focuses on (a) key…
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finance regulatory
05 Aug 2022 Law Commission Digital Assets Reform Proposal - The Big Issues
In the wake of a wave of recent developments in the digital assets space, on 28 July 2022 the Law Commission published their landmark consultation paper…
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finance regulatory
29 Jul 2022 Consumer Duty: Final rules have landed (and not much has changed)
On 27 July 2022, the FCA set out final rules (in PS 22/9) in relation to the new Consumer Duty, together with supporting guidance. PS22/9 reflected an…
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contentious financial service supdate
29 Jul 2022 The FCA's Carillion Decision Notice
Authors: David Capps and Tom Connor
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finance regulatory
28 Jul 2022 Pushing the boundaries? Changes to providing financial services into the UK may be about to become harder
The FCA has published its periodic Perimeter Report. It sets out financial issues that fall outside its perimeter. It can be summarised as there isn’t a…
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contentious financial services update
22 Jul 2022 FCA enforcement cases on the rise
The FCA published its 2021/22 Annual Report this week, including data on its enforcement activities. We've summarised the key enforcement trends.
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contentious financial services update
15 Jul 2022 FCA/FSA Final Notice findings are inadmissible evidence in civil proceedings
Authors: Lynn Dunne, Partner and David Capps, Senior Consultant
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Contentious Financial Services Update
11 Jul 2022 Long-awaited Law Commission proposal on Corporate Criminal Liability: further use of "failure to prevent" model
On 10 June 2022, the Law Commission (the Commission) published its Corporate Criminal Liability Options paper. It has, however, come in for some criticism in…
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contentious financial services update
01 Jul 2022 Climate-related financial risks - Basel steers the banks' response
Authors: Lynn Dunne and David Capps
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contentious financial services update
27 Jun 2022 FCA highlight their efforts in fighting Market Abuse and Manipulation
In an FCA Press Release of 17 June, FCA highlighted their efforts in fighting Market Abuse and Manipulation. Some of their comments are illuminating – others…
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contentious financial services update
17 Jun 2022 What does "gross negligence" really mean?
Authors: David Capps and Nathan Willmott
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financial services speedread
16 Jun 2022 Financial Services SpeedRead: 16 June 2022 edition
Mr MacKinnon reiterated the PRA's assessment of operational resilience set out in David Bailey's speech of 28 April 2022 Mr MacKinnon highlighted…
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Finance regulatory
13 Jun 2022 Operational resilience: UK proposals to "regulate" critical third party service providers in similar move to EU DORA
On 8 June 2022 HM Treasury published a policy statement on a new regime to mitigate the risk of what the Treasury considers to be critical third parties in…
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contentious financial services update
10 Jun 2022 FCA exercises concurrent enforcement and redress powers
This case serves as a useful reminder of the scope of the FCA’s s55L FSMA powers and it may also embolden the regulator in pushing firms to implement more…
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contentious financial services update
27 May 2022 FCA Market Watch 69
Authors: David Capps and Nathan Willmott
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contentious financial services update
20 May 2022 The Privy Council rejects extending Quincecare duty to third parties
In Royal Bank of Scotland International Ltd (Respondent) v JP SPC 4 and another (Appellants), the Privy Council held that a bank's Quincecare duty does not…
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contentious financial services update
13 May 2022 Lots to look forward to ...
Authors: David Capps, Ruby Hamid
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financial services speedread
12 May 2022 Financial Services SpeedRead: 12 May 2022 edition
PRA publishes speech concerning operational resilience and the next steps on the PRA's Supervisory Roadmap On 28 April 2022, the PRA published a…
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contentious financial services update
06 May 2022 Whistleblowing in focus
Authors: David Capps, Senior Consultant, Tom Connor, Partner
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contentious financial services update
29 Apr 2022 FCA's use of s166 Skilled Person Reports
Our thought for the week reviews the FCA's statistics on their use of s166 Skilled Person Reports, there are some interesting trends but overall the limited…
