EU govts look to soften asset-manager provisions in capital markets reform law
September 08, 2026
| Fanny Roux
EU governments have taken a significant step toward a deal on the asset-management provisions in planned legislation to improve integration and supervision of the bloc’s capital markets. A first draft of their... (more story)
AI tests UK financial regulations' scope along with firms' cyber defenses
September 08, 2026
| Patricia Figueiredo
The growing popularity of using AI to inform financial decisions is raising questions about whether the UK's Financial Conduct Authority should change its regulatory approach to manage the risks of the fast de... (more story)
The debate on EU bank competitiveness is firing up again on all fronts
September 07, 2026
| Fanny Roux
The European Commission, EU lawmakers and governments, and the financial sector are stepping up discussions on banking competitiveness ahead of a package proposal expected in the first quarter of 2027. Banking... (more story)
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)