Brexit
Please see our Brexit financial services webpage, which contains, amongst other things, tables detailing Brexit statutory instruments, equivalence decisions, EEA transitional regimes and UK regulators’ publications.
Capital Markets
Please see our Markets and Markets Infrastructure section for an update on the Council of the EU adopting amendments to MiFID II and the Prospectus Regulation in view of Covid-19.
Consumer/Retail
FCA consults on extending guidance on cancellations and refunds
On 12 February, the FCA published a consultation on guidance on cancellations and refunds, specifically regarding helping consumers with rights and routes to refunds. The FCA explains that on 2 October 2020, it published temporary guidance setting out its expectations for insurance providers and card providers to reduce consumer confusion and frustration by outlining its expectations of firms to provide more information and make the consumer journey easier. Currently, the guidance is ef
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Date: 27 May 2021
Brexit: Draft Recognised Auction Platforms (Amendment and Miscellaneous Provisions) Regulations 2021 - A draft version of the Recognised Auction Platforms (Amendment and Miscellaneous.
The much-anticipated Energy White Paper was published by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (
BEIS ) on 14 December 2020, setting out its strategy for the UK s energy transition over the next decade. The Energy White Paper focuses on strategy in six key areas: consumers, power, the energy system, buildings, industrial energy and oil & gas.
Much of what has been set out in the Energy White Paper is not new. For one, the Energy White Paper builds on the UK government s Ten Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution (the
Ten Point Plan ). However, committing this strategy to a White Paper brings the proposals set out by BEIS one step closer to future legislation.