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 & RegulationHoL Financial Services Regulatory Committee: Regulatory sandboxes in financial services
The Committee has opened this new inquiry to explore whether regulatory sandboxes support innovation; their role in supporting the development of regulation; whether they represent value for money and public benefit; and the degree to which the selection of participating firms can influence the market. Responses to the call for evidence are required by 23 October 2026.
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FCA: Speech by Steve Smart: Financial crime – protecting the hive
Text of Steve Smart’s speech of 17 September 2026 to the Law Society follows in which he discusses FCA’s work on financial crime, particularly its future responsibility for AML supervision of entities in the legal and accounting sectors.
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FCA: Illegal crypto trading in London
FCA has reported on further operations with the Metropolitan Police and HMRC to disrupt peer-to-peer crypto trading in three London locations.
FCA: FS26/2: Supporting SME access to finance
FCA reports that it has found no evidence that its regulation is a major barrier to SME access to finance, but emphasises it will focus its next steps on the following: monitoring industry work to explore whether digital verification could reduce duplication in customer checks, while maintaining effective financial crime controls; delivering a proportionate regime as part of CCA reform, and enabling open finance to develop by prioritising high-impact use cases, including SME lending and consumer mortgages.
FCA: Payments firms - delivering good outcomes for consumers in vulnerable circumstances
FCA has published its findings on good practice and areas for improvement in payments firms’ approaches to supporting consumers in vulnerable circumstances. An accompanying blog by Alison Russell has also been published.
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