Our Financial Regulation Outlook 2024 explores the key regulatory developments that we expect to see in the Banking, Asset Management and Fintech & Payments sectors over the coming year. With no reduction in pace, although with a strong focus overall on implementation, there is again a huge volume of financial regulatory developments on the horizon for 2024, many with impacts on the whole financial services sector. 

The UK is set to introduce new laws to combat economic crime, including fraud, money laundering and the financing of terrorist activities. The legislation aims to strengthen systems for collecting, accessing and displaying information about UK companies and partnerships and about the ownership of UK real estate by overseas entities. In addition, business organisations may incur criminal liabilities if they fail to take measures to prevent fraud by their employees or agents and it will be made easier to prosecute companies for criminal wrongdoing.

From general insurance through to life and pensions, the UK insurance sector continues to face a raft of regulatory change in a post-Brexit world. Visit our Regulatory Insurance page to stay updated with industry-wide developments and insights.

There are a myriad of financial regulatory developments on the horizon in 2023. With so much to digest, we have broken our insights into three tailored reports designed to cover these changes from Banking and Wholesale, Payments, and Asset Management perspectives.

We are helping firms to navigate one of the most far-reaching changes to UK regulation in recent years.

Insurance and pensions are high-profile topics that are never far from the top of the FCA's agenda. In this podcast series, we look at the latest regulatory developments across both sectors.

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UK regulators have prescribed how financial institutions and market infrastructure must build their resilience to business disruption.

Culture, governance and accountability are key priorities for regulators in their supervisory engagement with firms and in considering enforcement action. Getting this right is more important than ever.

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Brexit is unique in its scope and complexity. It affects businesses across all sectors, yet no two businesses face precisely the same challenges; everything depends on the nature and footprint of their operations as well as those of their suppliers and customers.

The updated EU Shareholder Rights Directive applies in the UK from 10 June 2019. Companies, asset managers and institutional investors need to be prepared to comply with the changes it introduces.

The SMCR is part of the UK regulators’ drive to improve culture, governance and accountability within financial services firms. It aims to deter misconduct by improving individual accountability and awareness of conduct issues across firms.

This report, which has been prepared in partnership with UK Finance, is designed to help firms more easily engage with the many and varied sources of ethical requirements and evaluate whether they are living up to these expectations and the values they have set for themselves.