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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This guidance brings together industry and regulatory thinking on frontier AI resilience and sets out a structured approach across governance, protection, response, automation and resilience.
HoL: Financial Services and Markets Bill
Ahead of the second reading of the Bill, scheduled for 8 June 2026, a HoL Library briefing has been published.
FCA: Appointed representatives data
FCA has published data on the appointed representatives population and financial services activity.
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FCA: CP26/17: Quarterly Consultation Paper No. 52
The latest edition of FCA’s QCP includes consultations on: climate reporting for investment firms; various issues relating to cryptoassets; UK CRR, and RMA-M scheduling and guidance. Responses are required by 13 July 2026. A separate press release has been published on the climate reporting rules consultation.
BoE/FCA: MoU on the supervision of FMI
BoE and FCA wrote to CCPs, RIEs and RCSDs to request feedback on the MoU on whether the proposed cooperation set out in the MoU was working effectively. This joint statement notes that respondents reported a high degree of cooperation.
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We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.
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