Financial Services law
Better Regulation have been the leading provider of online financial services regulation in the UK for over 20 years.
Our unrivalled financial services coverage means you can see all the latest news, view all relevant documents and access a comprehensive database of up-to-the-minute legislation, all in the same place.
We publish documents from numerous organisations, such as the Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority, Payment Systems Regulator, HM Treasury and HM Revenue & Customs, as well as EU, international and industry bodies. We also partner with leading UK law firms and accountants to bring you the very best expert commentary and insights.
Better Regulation’s online financial services legislation covers all applicable EU law, EU Exit and Retained EU law as well as company law, data protection law, AML/CFT and sanctions.
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Regulated activities covered
- Accepting deposits
- Electronic Money
- Insurance
- Investments as principal or agent
- Credit Broking
- Operating an Electronic System
- Managing investments
- Assisting in the Administration and Performance of a Contract of Insurance
- Activities in Relation to Debt
- Collective investment
- Pension schemes
- Providing basic advice on stakeholder products
- Advising on investments
- Regulated Credit Agreements
- Regulated Consumer Hire Agreements
- Regulated mortgage contracts
- Regulated home reversion plans
- Regulated home purchase plans
- Regulated Sale and Rent Back Agreements
- and more
Our clients include
- Accountant
- Actuary
- AML Reporting Officer
- AML Specialist
- Audit Relationship Manager
- Auditor
- Business Analyst
- CFO
- Chartered Legal Executive
- Company Secretaries
- Compliance Monitoring Manager
- Compliance Officer
- Conduct Assurance Manager
- Directors
- Finance Business Partner
- Finance Directors
- Financial Crime Officer
- General Counsel
- Head of Assurance
- Head of Compliance
- Head of Group Risk Assurance
- Head of Operations and Communications
- Head of Technical Services
- Intelligence Officer
- Knowledge Manager
- Legal Adviser
- Librarian
- Life and Pensions Technical Specialist
- Manager of Fund Services
- Managing Director
- Operational Risk Manager Life and GI
- Policy Analyst
- Principal Officer
- Proposition and Marketing
- Regulatory Change Management
- Regulatory Risk Officers
- Risk & Compliance Specialist
- Risk Manager
- Senior Actuarial Risk Analyst
- Senior Compliance Officer
- Senior Insurance Supervisor
- Senior Technical Consultant
- Tax Manager
Subject areas covered
- Accounting
- Actuarial
- Africa
- AIFs
- Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive - AIFMD
- AnaCredit
- Asset-Covered Securities/Covered Bonds
- Auditing
- Authorisation
- Bank Recovery & Resolution Directives - BRRD/BRRD II
- Banking Standards Review
- Banking Structural Reform
- Banks/Credit Institutions
- Basel
- Benchmarks
- Benchmarks Regulation - BMR
- Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
- Bureaux de Change
- Capital Markets
- Capital Markets Union - CMU
- Capital Requirements
- Capital Requirements Legislation - CRD IV/V, CRR/CRR2
- CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation
- Central Securities Depositories Regulation - CSDR
- Charities
- Client assets
- Climate Change
- Companies
- Compensation
- Competition
- Constitutional Law
- Consumer Credit
- Consumer duty
- Consumer Protection
- Contracts
- Corporate Governance
- COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
- CP86
- Credit Rating
- Credit Rating Agencies Regulation - CRAR
- Credit Unions
- Cross-border
- Cross-border fund distribution
- Crowdfunding/Third Party Funding
- Crypto-assets
- Culture in Financial Services
- Cyber Security
- Data Protection
- Data/Statistics
- Deposit Guarantee Schemes
- Derivatives
- Digital Finance / Fintech
- Dispute Resolution
- Dodd-Frank
- E-Commerce
- Employment
- Energy Market
- Enforcement/Breaches
- Environmental, social and governance - ESG
- EU Banking Union
- EU Exit
- European Long-Term Investment Fund - ELTIF
- European Market Infrastructure Regulation - EMIR/EMIR Refit
- European Union
- FATCA
- Financial Crime & AML/CFT
- Financial Education/Guidance
- Financial Services Contracts Regime - FSCR
- Financial Services Regulation
- Financial Stability
- Fit and Proper
- Freedom of Information
- Funds
- General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR
- Government Policy
- Health Insurance
- Insolvency and Restructuring
- Insurance & Reinsurance
- Insurance and Reinsurance Directive - Solvency II
- Insurance Claims
- Insurance Distribution Directive - IDD
- Insurance recovery and resolution
- InsurTech
- Interchange Fee Regulation
- International
- International Accounting Standards
- Investment
- Investment Firms Directive & Regulation - IFD / IFR
- Investor Protection
- IORP II Directive
- LIBOR transition
- Liquidity
- Listing
- Market Abuse Regulation
- Market Abuse/Insider Dealing
- Market infrastructure
- Markets in Financial Instruments Legislation - MiFID II / MiFIR
- Mergers and Acquisitions
- Monetary Policy
- Money Laundering Regulation
- Money Market Funds Regulation - MMFR
- Mortgage Credit Directive - MCD
- Mortgages
- Mutual Societies
- National Asset Management Agency - NAMA
- National Treasury Management Agency - NTMA
- Non-financial reporting
- Non-performing loans/exposures, NPL/NPE
- Non-UCITS
- Offshore
- Operational resilience
- Outsourcing
- Partnerships
- Pawnbrokers
- Payment Services Directive - PSD2
- Payment Systems & Services
- Pensions
- PRIIPs Regulation
- Property / Real Estate
- Prospectus Directive - PD
- Prospectus Regulation - PR
- Prospectuses
- Recovery and Resolution
- RegTech
- Regulatory Reporting
- Remuneration
- Retail Distribution Review - RDR
- Ring-fencing
- Risk
- Sanctions
- Saudi Arabia
- Securities
- Securities Financing Transactions Regulation - SFTR
- Securitisation Regulation
- Senior Executive Accountability Regime - SEAR
- Senior Insurance Managers Regime - SIMR
- Senior Managers and Certification Regime - SMCR
- Shadow Banking
- Shareholders Rights Directive / Shareholder Rights Directive II - SRD II
- Short Selling
- Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation - SRMR/SRMR II
- Single Supervisory Mechanism - SSM
- Small & Medium Enterprises - SMEs
- Social Welfare
- Solvency II
- Special Administration Regime - SAR
- Sustainable Finance
- Takeover Rules/Code
- Taxation
- Temporary Permissions Regime – TPR / Temporary Recognition Regime -TRR
- Temporary Transitional Power - TTP
- Transparency
- Transparency Directive - TD
- Transport
- Trusts
- UCITS
- UK Financial Services Future Regulatory Framework Review
- UK Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR)
- UK LCO
- UK-adopted International Accounting Standards
- Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive - UCITS Directive
- Whistleblowing