Financial Services

Maintained resources

• Practice notes
• Checklists and flowcharts
• Hot topics in financial services
• Standard documents and drafting notes

Current awareness

• Legal updates
• Horizon scanning for financial services practitioners
• Regulator priorities: 2024/25

Tracking developments

• Financial services trackers
• FCA enforcement action trackers
• Case tracker: 2024 financial services cases
• Allen & Overy financial services case and regulatory decision reports
• Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery Chamber) financial services decision reports

Contentious financial services toolkit

• Contentious financial services toolkit

Market practice

• Article archive
• Allen & Overy's financial services investigations and enforcement column
• Ashurst's financial crime column
• Ashurst's sustainable finance column
• Gough Square Chambers' consumer credit column
• Grant Murtagh's insurance column
• Jacob Ghanty's payment services and e-money column
• Lucy Frew's FinTech column
• Melville Rodrigues' fund management column
• RPC's Financial Ombudsman Service column
• Simmons & Simmons' market abuse column
• Slaughter and May's banking and investment services column

Multimedia and publications

• Video and audio

Training

• Resources for those new to financial services

About this practice area

• About this practice area
• Meet the team
• New content
• Consultation board

Resources on EU financial services legislation

• AIFMD
• BRRD and SRM Regulation
• Benchmarks Regulation (BMR)
• CRD and CRR
• CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation
• CSDR
• Consumer Credit Directive (CCD)
• CRA Regulation
• Crowdfunding Regulation
• DGSD, ICSD and EDIS
• DORA
• EMIR
• ELTIF, EuVECA and EuSEF Regulations
• FICOD
• IDD
• IFR and IFD
• MAR

• MiCA
• MiFID and MiFIR
• MLD4
• MMF Regulation
• Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD)
• Payment Accounts Directive (PAD)
• Payment Services Directive (PSD)
• PEPP Regulation
• PRIIPs Regulation
• Prospectus Regulation
• SFTR
• Short Selling Regulation (SSR)
• Solvency II
• Sustainable finance (Taxonomy Regulation and SFDR)
• UCITS Directive
• Wire Transfer Regulation (WTR)

Other key EU resources

• Directive on Retail Investor Protection
• ESG Ratings Regulation
• Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive
• Regulation on a framework for financial data access
• Application of EU legislation to non-EU EEA states
• Banking Union
• Capital markets union (CMU)
• EU delegated acts and implementing acts: financial services aspects
• EU Digital Finance Strategy
• EU financial services technical standards and guidance
• The EU Collection
• European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS)
• FinTech (EU developments)

UK regulators

• FCA
• PRA
• Bank of England
• PSR
• FCA Handbook
• PRA Rulebook
• Financial Services Register
• Financial Ombudsman Service (FOS)

UK government

• HM Treasury
• Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy

EU institutions and supervisors

• European Parliament
• European Commission
• Council of the EU
• EBA
• EIOPA
• ESMA
• EUR-Lex

International bodies

• BCBS
• IOSCO
• IAIS
• FATF
• FSB

Reported cases

• British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII)
• HMCTS Upper Tribunal (Tax and Chancery)
• Curia

Industry bodies

• ABI
• AFME
• AIMA
• City of London Law Society (CLLS) Regulatory Law Committee
• EFAMA
• FMLC
• IRSG
• Insurance Europe
• Investment Association
• UK Finance

Global Guides

• Banking Regulation
• Capital Markets: Debt
• Capital Markets: Equity
• Corporate Governance and Directors' Duties
• Insurance and Reinsurance

Quick Compare Charts

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