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    18/03/2024

    Financial Services Webinars On Demand

    Click here to view recordings of CMS financial services webinars available on demand. Webinars are a convenient way to stay informed and hear from our legal experts. 
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    06/03/2024

    FCA sends Dear CEO letter to firms in warning over money laundering failings

    The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has sent a Dear CEO letter (the “Letter”) to Annex 1 Firms warning them about common failings found in their ability to prevent money laundering, terrorist financing and proliferation financing (hereafter “Financial Crime”). This forms part of the FCA’s enhanced monitoring of Annex 1 Firms in relation to their Financial Crime controls and its increasingly proactive approach in enforcing its regulatory expectations.The FCA is asking Annex 1 Firms to carry out a gap analysis against the failings it has identified in...
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    29/02/2024

    UK FCA proposals to publicly announce investigations could be detrimental to firms placed into enforcement

    With every new director of enforcement and market oversight at the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), there is a step change in the way the regulator approaches enforcement cases.Under the FCA's former incumbent in the role, the threshold for opening enforcement cases was lowered, leading to an increase in its enforcement caseload and an increase in the length of time for an investigation to be concluded.Improving 'efficiency and pace'Under the purview of the joint directors of enforcement and market oversight, the FCA, in acknowledging the importance of deterrence, said it needs to speed up its...
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    19/02/2024

    Financial Services Webinars On Demand

    Use the below link to view recordings of CMS financial services webinars available on demand. Webinars are a convenient way to stay informed and hear from our legal experts.   
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    08/02/2024

    UK government publishes delayed update on AI policy

    The UK government has published its delayed response to the consultation accompanying its March 2023 white paper on artificial intelligence (AI). It had been expected by the end of September 2023, but was delayed until after the AI Safety Summit at Bletchley Park in November 2023.The government has not put forward any legislative proposals at this stage and remains committed to a sector-by-sector approach to regulating AI. Instead, the government will continually review whether its approach of issuing non-binding principles to UK regulators remains appropriate, recognising that legislative action...
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    21/12/2023

    Critical Third Parties: The unstoppable march of the regulatory universe

    Expansion of the regulatory perimeterThe Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 establishes a new Critical Third Parties regime which gave power to the FCA, PRA and Bank of England to make rules to govern critical third party service providers (CTPs) to the UK’s financial services industry for the first time. The regulators have now published a joint consultation paper (CP26/23) for this new regulatory framework for CTPs.The new rules bring CTPs into the scope of the regulatory perimeter for the first time, reflecting a significant and transformative shift for CTPs but not, it seems, for...
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