Financial Services & Regulation
Our Financial Services & Regulation team can provide a wide range of legal services advice associated with the regulated financial sector.
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With leading practices in the UK’s two biggest financial services centres, London and Edinburgh, our team combines wholesale and retail, contentious and non-contentious expertise across banking, insurance, asset management and financial intermediation. You can be assured we understand the regulatory context in which you operate and recognise the importance of finding commercial solutions.
Our specialist regulatory lawyers advise retail and wholesale financial services firms on managing regulatory risk and resolving and avoiding regulatory action and disputes.
Having represented firms in over 400 regulatory investigations and enforcement proceedings, our team combines knowledge of regulated businesses with a clear understanding of what the regulators require.
We use that experience to help clients manage and grow their businesses through the development of new products, services and distribution channels.
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Regulatory News - Financial Services & Regulation
See all Regulatory News - Financial Services & RegulationBoE: Speech by Nathanaël Benjamin: A unique vantage point
Text of Nathanaël Benjamin’s speech of 1 October 2026 follows in which he discusses surveillance of the markets, with particular regard to hedge funds and the gilt repo market.
FCA: Pure protection contracts product sales data
FCA has published pure protection product sales data from 1 January 2021 to 31 December 2025.
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BoE: Speech by Sasha Mills: New horizons: the legal and commercial frontier of digital assets
Text of Sasha Mills’ speech of 1 October 2026 follows in which she sets out the ways in which BoE will support innovation in digital finance.
BoE: Financial Policy Record
BoE has published the Record of the FPC meeting on 25 September 2026 which discusses the current risk environment, including the extent to which developments in AI could affect a wide range of investors and funding markets.
PRA: Thematic feedback on accounting for IFRS 9 expected credit losses
PRA has published a “Dear CFO” letter from David Bailey to selected PRA-regulated deposit-takers. The letter provides thematic feedback from the regulator’s review of written auditor reports received in 2026 covering IFRS 9 expected credit loss accounting and accounting for climate risk.
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