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 & RegulationHoL: Financial Services and Markets Bill
Committee stage in HoL has now been completed, with the third reading of the Bill scheduled for 15 September 2026. Hansard transcripts of the Committee stage debates may be downloaded via the following link.
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BIS: When machines attack – frontier AI cyber threats and policy responses in the financial sector
This FSI Insights publication considers frontier AI models’ cyber capabilities and their prudential implications for financial sector supervisors. It includes a section which analyses financial authorities’ policy responses.
DBISC: Modernising corporate reporting
The Government is consulting on proposals to modernise the UK’s corporate reporting framework, including with regard to corporate governance and remuneration reporting. Responses are required by 30 November 2026.
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FCA: Mortgage lending statistics
FCA has published Q2 2026 mortgage lending statistics, including a commentary.
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FCA: Our use of cost benefit analysis
TSC has published the text of a letter from Nikhil Rathi in which he sets out how FCA’s use cost benefit analysis in developing policy, and the role of the independent CBA Panel.
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