Posted by Mark Dwyer and Tony Katz on 23 September 2024
Financial services organisations across the globe are facing unprecedented levels of change and uncertainty. Amid this landscape, DLA Piper commissioned a global survey of c.800 major decision-makers in financial services organisations across the EMEA and APAC regions and North America to explore the impact this change is having on the sector.
Posted by Matthew Christmas on 24 April 2024
The latest version of our International Debt Finance Intelligence Report 2024 is now live.
Building on the success of our inaugural edition in 2023, our latest report has once again analysed the data captured from the deals we’ve closed, coupled with commentary from across our International Debt Finance team to produce a report that will be of benefit to lenders, borrowers and sponsors.
Posted by Laurent Massinon, Pierre Berger and Melvin Tjon Akon on 13 May 2025
As the title suggests, the SIU is a policy strategy adopted by the EC. The strategy sets out legislative initiatives and non-legislative policy actions that the EC plans to implement, to improve the way that the financial system of the European Union (EU) channels household savings to productive investment by businesses.
Posted by Karen Butler, Sophie Lessar, Chris Harvey and Suman Khurana on 7 May 2025
On 29 April 2025, HMT published the Draft Instrument and a policy note for the regulation of certain activities relating to cryptoassets and stablecoins. This comes hot on the heels of the publication of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) cryptoassets roadmap, and discussion paper relating to the creation of a new UK tailored cryptoassets regime.
Posted by Karen Butler on 8 April 2025
On 7 April 2025 HM Treasury (HMT) published a consultation paper (Consultation Paper) on proposed changes to the UK alternative investment fund managers (AIFM) legislative framework, and the Financial Conduct Authority (the FCA) published a call for input on how to create a more proportionate, streamlined and simplified regime.
Posted by Karen Butler and Sophie Lessar on 1 April 2025
Following on from HM Treasury's Policy Paper on how UK regulators and regulation can support growth, the FCA has published its five-year strategy paper (the Strategy Paper), which focuses on the four key priorities of making the FCA smarter regulator, supporting economic growth, protecting customers, and fighting financial crime.
Posted by Pierre Berger, Sophie Lessar and Melvin Tjon Akon on 3 March 2025
On 17 January 2025, Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 14 December 2022 on digital operational resilience for the financial sector (Digital Operational Resilience Act, DORA) entered into force. Since that date, Member States must also apply the national transpositions of Directive (EU) 2022/2556 (DORA Directive).
Posted by Steven Krivinskas, Marcus Lovatt and Mark Daley on 17 February 2025
ESMA's much-anticipated proposals to reform the quarterly reporting templates were issued on 13February. They seem to offer less of a solution than the market has been asking for.
Posted by Karen Butler on 10 February 2025
The letter sets out the FCA’s expectations of an UK authorised firm that act as a custodian, depository of authorised and unauthorised funds, and a third party administrator (providing fund accounting and transfer agency services) (the Sector Firms).
Posted by Sophie Lessar on 22 January 2025
The UK Government has passed legislation to confirm that staking does not fall within the regulatory scope of Collective Investment Schemes.
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