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Sustainable finance and ESG are becoming increasingly important for financial institutions and their lawyers. Our practical guidance, summaries, timelines and toolkits help practitioners navigate this complex area
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Latest Financial Services News
Financial services analysis: Sara Cody, knowledge consultant at Linklaters analyses the Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) new Enforcement Guide...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published updated processing times for fund authorisations. Under the current requirements, complete...
The International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS) Foundation has published 17 jurisdictional profiles detailing global progress on adoption of...
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has announced the UK government’s approach aimed at bolstering economic growth and enhancing the financial...
Law360, London: The government's demand that regulators should prioritise growth is 'largely incompatible' with their duty to deter misconduct, say...
Latest Financial Services Practice Notes
The Capital Markets Union—recent news [Archived]ARCHIVED: This document has been archived and is no longer maintained.2021 News DateNews story21...
Key differences relating to legal entities under Scots lawSTOP PRESS: The Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA 2023) received...
UK Securitisation Regulation—one minute guide [Archived]ARCHIVED: This document is archived and no longer maintained.This Practice Note provides high...
Margin for non-cleared derivatives—industry initiativesThe introduction of margin requirements for non-cleared derivatives is transforming how firms...
UK AIFM regime—organisational, valuation and delegation requirementsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the organisational, valuation and...
Latest Financial Services Precedents
Sustainability glossary terms (The Chancery Lane Project)These Precedent sustainability definitions, produced by The Chancery Lane Project (TCLP) as...
Retained EU law—training materials [Archived]ARCHIVED: This Precedent has been archived and is not maintained.These training materials consist of...
Environmental Targets for a Limited Partnership Agreement (Stella & Flora’s Clause) (The Chancery Lane Project)This clause consists of amendments and...
Joint and several liability clause1Joint and several liability[Except for clauses [insert],] the liabilities and obligations of [insert names of...
Dealing Procedures ManualThis precedent memorandum sets out the procedures to be followed by a listed company and its subsidiaries in relation to...
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Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)
Financial Conduct Authority—Principles for Businesses (PRIN)This Practice Note explains the Principles for Businesses (PRIN) set down by the Financial...
CMA identifies Monzo's breaches of Retail Banking Market Investigation Order and secures agreement for corrective action
The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has identified several breaches by Monzo Bank Limited (Monzo) of the Retail Banking Market Investigation...
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBS
Insurance conduct regulation—COBS and ICOBSThe Financial Conduct Authority Handbook (FCA Handbook) includes sourcebooks to regulate the conduct of...
Second charge mortgage regime
Second charge mortgage regimeSecond charge mortgages definedA regulated second charge mortgage is a loan secured on a borrower’s property that is used...
FCA client money rules
FCA client money rulesBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)
Non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS)This Practice Note explores non-UCITS retail schemes (NURS) and comments on investment powers, key investor information...
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial services
Introduction to the UK AML/CTF/CPF legal and regulatory framework for financial servicesThis Practice Note provides a detailed introduction to the...
Debt sale and purchase agreements
Debt sale and purchase agreementsThe debt sale and purchase market is an important way for lenders and debt sellers to reduce balance sheet liability....
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlement
Consumer Credit Act 1974—early settlementIntroduction to early settlementBorrowers are entitled, at any time, to bring regulated agreements to an end....
Where a lender is required to send notices of sums in arrears on a fixed sum loan under section 86B of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 (CCA 1974) and the customer clears the arrears but leaves default sums outstanding, is the lender required to keep sending subsequent notices of sums in arrears under CCA 1974, s 86B(5)(b)?
FCA Handbook—introduction
FCA Handbook—introductionBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit transition/implementation period...
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentials
Unregulated collective investment schemes—essentialsWhat are unregulated collective investment schemes?In the UK, an unregulated collective investment...
Credit limits
Credit limitsThis Practice Note provides an overview of the rules that apply to credit limits. A borrower will be set a credit limit on the maximum...
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirements
Consumer credit agreements—pre-contract requirementsBREXIT: 11pm (GMT) on 31 December 2020 (‘IP completion day’) marked the end of the Brexit...
What are regulated activities?
What are regulated activities?Scope of this Practice NoteThis Practice Note explains what constitutes regulated activities under the UK regulatory...
MiFID and non-MiFID business
MiFID and non-MiFID businessThis Practice Note summarises what MiFID business is as the term is defined in the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA)...
Part VII Transfer of Banking Business
Part VII Transfer of Banking BusinessBackgroundAs noted in Practice Note: Insurance business transfer schemes, a regime for transferring portfolios of...
Financial Services Act 2012 [Archived]
Financial Services Act 2012The Financial Services Act 2012 (FSA 2012) received Royal Assent on 19 December 2012 and went into effect on 1 April 2013....
Associated legal terms
Independent intermediary
An authorised person who advises on investments from a whole of market perspective and offers clients the choice of paying for advice by way of fee or commission.
Non-exempt activities order
The Financial Services & Markets Act 2000 (Non-Exempt Activities) Order 2001 is secondary legislation which contains a list of the activities to which the exemption to the general prohibition does not apply.
Non-mainstream regulated activities
This describes the regulated activities which authorised professional firms carry on in circumstances where these activities are complementary to a professional legal service.
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