UK financial firms await test case for new misconduct rules
September 01, 2026
| Martin Coyle
Firms across the UK's financial services sector, from insurers to asset managers, must now ensure their senior managers comply with the same bullying and harassment rules that bankers have been required to fol... (more story)
EU lawmakers’ capital market amendments show divides, hint at compromises
August 31, 2026
| Fanny Roux
EU lawmakers' amendments to the capital market reform reveal common ground between the main parties, the center-right EPP and center-left S&D, on expanding the European Securities and Markets Authority's overs... (more story)
Key financial reforms on the line as EU enters packed fall negotiating season
August 27, 2026
| Fanny Roux
EU institutions are racing to finalize major financial reforms by year-end — including market integration, securitization, pensions and the digital euro — while new proposals to boost the EU capital markets ar... (more story)
Climate litigation boom makes states’ obligations clear, corporate ones less so
August 26, 2026
| Louis de Briant
Climate litigation is increasingly defining governments' and companies' obligations as climate science and legal precedents develop. While landmark cases have helped entrench the duties that states have and pr... (more story)
US Fed’s Warsh may face first test of whether he's Trump’s 'sock puppet'
August 11, 2026
| Neil Roland
US Federal Reserve Chair Kevin Warsh may soon face his first test of whether he is President Donald Trump’s “sock puppet,” as last week the president told Fed Governor Lisa Cook that he is considering ousting... (more story)
What kind of digital euro will the EU get?
August 06, 2026
| Helena Freitas
The EU is no longer debating only whether to create a digital euro, but what kind of payment instrument it should become. Make-or-break choices are now at the negotiating table of EU lawmakers and governments,... (more story)
UK pensions case shows judges aren’t scared to push back on FCA enforcement bite
August 05, 2026
| Martin Coyle
The upholding of industry bans on two “dishonest” pension advisers was welcomed by the UK’s financial regulator on Tuesday, but the Financial Conduct Authority has once again seen its bite softened by judges. ... (more story)
EU Commission cautiously frames sensitive debate on banking reforms
July 17, 2026
| Fanny Roux
The European Commission's banking competitiveness report, published on July 17, is set to revive decade-old debates on the bloc's single rulebook. It outlines plans for lenders, including freer flow of capital... (more story)