Tim Lewis

The FCA has issued final rules for its new retail product disclosure regime: PS25/20: Supporting informed decision making: Final rules for Consumer Composite Investments.

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The way in which the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) communicates its supervisory expectations to firms has recently changed. Back in April 2025…

But can the “contrast therapy” boom last 31 March 2026 Chris Miller was at a Christmas dinner in 2020 when he started feeling really awful.

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The Financial Conduct Authority has announced the first phase of changes to the UK Senior Managers and Certification Regime, with implementation beginning in April 2026. While these initial modifications are relatively minor adjustments aimed at reducing regulatory burden, they include some tightened requirements around regulatory references and notification obligations that firms and senior managers need to understand and prepare for.

Regulators face a dilemma. On both sides of the Atlantic, they have started making proposals to deregulate private market rulebooks.

The UK government has launched a £500m sovereign AI fund led by Balderton's James Wise, aiming to help British AI startups start, scale, and compete globally. With ticket sizes between £1m-£10m, the fund offers not just capital but fast-tracked visas, supercomputer access, and government procurement opportunities—but can this strategy overcome the UK's historical challenge of retaining founders at the growth stage?

The Council of the European Union has published its negotiating position on SFDR 2.0, introducing significant changes including an opt-out for professional investor-only AIFs and clarifications on private asset eligibility. Will these broadly welcome amendments survive the upcoming trilogue negotiations with the European Parliament and Commission, and what does this mean for the timeline of implementation now expected in mid- to late-2029?

In one of the most hotly anticipated consultations of the year, on 14 July 2026, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its proposals for reforming the remuneration framework for UK solo-regulated firms.