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 allBIS/IAIS: Cyber insurance unpacked – the corporate digital safety net
Based on desktop reviews and interviews with supervisors, insurers, reinsurers, brokers and other market participants, this FSI Insights report, published in collaboration with IAIS, looks at cyber insurance product coverage, pricing and underwriting practices, and considers the insurance protection gap. It also highlights key considerations for supporting the sound and sustainable development of cyber insurance.
FCA: Areas of research interest
In this paper, FCA has set out the range of its research themes and focus areas. The themes include growth, wholesale markets, helping consumers and regulation. Focus areas include changes in financial services markets and changes in the UK economy relating to capital allocation and consumers.
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HMT: ToR for the Wholesale Digital Markets Champion
HMT has published the ToR for the Wholesale Digital Markets Champion which sets out how Chris Woolard will lead industry in driving the adoption of digital technologies across UK markets. He has been asked to provide a forward look on the organisation of a cross-industry taskforce for driving tokenisation by July 2026 and a report on DLT adoption and interoperability by July 2027.
PRA: Speech by Shoib Khan: It’s coming home
Text of Shoib Khan’s speech of 16 June 2026 follows in which he discusses the regulator’s plans for a new UK captive insurance regime.
FCA: Speech by Emad Aladhal: Later life lending – building the fourth retirement pillar
Text of Emad Aladhal’s speech of 16 June 2016 follows.
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We provide future-facing legal advice to help your organisation thrive. Combining local market knowledge and a global perspective, and with lawyers in locations worldwide, your organisation benefits from the expertise it needs, even across borders.
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