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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See all Regulatory News - Financial Services & RegulationFCA: AI tools for personal investment research and financial decision-making in the UK market
FCA has highlighted research which found that adults aged between 18-40 were becoming more comfortable with using AI for help with investing. However, 44% mistakenly believe AI-generated financial information is regulated, 38% consider that it would be fine to make an investment decision based solely on the outputs of AI, and 32% wrongly believe that they would be able to get compensation from FSCS or FOS if AI advice went wrong.
HMT: New objective for BoE
The Government intends to give BoE a new responsibility to support innovation in payment systems and emerging forms of digital money, whilst continuing to prioritise financial stability. The secondary payments innovation objective will sit below BoE’s primary financial stability objective. BoE will report against this objective annually, as a means by which to track pace with technological change. The Government expects to implement this change through making amendments to the Financial Services and Markets Bill.
FCA: Whistleblowing quarterly data
FCA has published its Q2 2026 whistleblowing data.
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BIS: Regulating stablecoin issuance – permissible entities and activities
This FSI briefing paper provides a comparative analysis of the regulatory frameworks for stablecoin issuers across the UK, EU, US, Hong Kong SAR and Singapore.
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BoE: RTGS standards release
BoE has announced that it will delay what would have been the November 2026 RTGS standards release, including the messaging standards for CHAPS payments.
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