7 October 2020
FCA issues new guidance on fitness and propriety assessments in the financial services sector
The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) has recently provided information to their regulated firms as to good and bad practice relating to, amongst other things, the carrying out of fitness and propriety (“F&P”) assessments.
31 July 2020
The new cryptoasset promotions consultation: widening the perimeter of FCA regulation
Research recently undertaken by the FCA has found that 5.35% of the UK population hold (or have previously held) cryptoassets where in 2019 this figure was 3%. For several years now the Government, the Bank of England and the FCA have been consulting on and considering how best to regulate this burgeoning market.
19 June 2020
Inappropriate behaviour - when the past is not left in the past
The news that Stephen Jones, head of UK Finance, has quit over "thoroughly unpleasant" personal comments he made in 2008 about financier Amanda Staveley, is a stark reminder to executives that their past behaviour may one day come back to haunt them.
27 May 2020
Who’d be a Whistle Blower?
The indications are that an increasing number of individuals are coming forward, particularly in the financial services sector, to call out wrongdoing.
22 May 2020
Your legal rights on returning to work during COVID-19
Whilst the prime minister's broadcast on 10 May did not open the floodgates to City employers requiring staff to "return to work" enmasse, most firms are already drawing up plans for how that should be organised and many of us will have been thinking about what will happen when employers start to update their 'work from home' advice.