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UK set to reform savings accounts to spur stock-market investment
The UK government is set to reform Individual Savings Accounts — ISAs — as it seeks to channel retail investment away from cash and into stock-market investments. T... (more story)
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Concerns about lost focus on payments are reasonable, UK regulator says
Concerns that a move to abolish the UK’s dedicated payments regulator could result in less focus on payments are “absolutely reasonable,” a senior official from tha... (more story)
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UK payments regulator’s policy head Fitzgerald quits
Kate Fitzgerald, head of policy at the UK Payment Systems Regulator and architect of its fraud-reimbursement regime, is leaving the regulator at the end of April, M... (more story)
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The founder of tech startup Frank and the firm’s chief growth officer lied to banks about the size of its userbase, the very thing that had made the company valuable, prosecutors said today in their closing ar... (more story)
Paul Atkins, President Donald Trump’s nominee for US Securities and Exchange Commission chair, and Jonathan Gould, the pick for Office of the Comptroller of the Currency chief, say in prepared remarks to the S... (more story)
The UK government is set to reform Individual Savings Accounts — ISAs — as it seeks to channel retail investment away from cash and into stock-market investments. The finance ministry said in a statement that ... (more story)
The UK is at risk of being left behind when it comes to the regulation and adoption of digital assets, the shadow financial services minister Mark Garnier said today, a day after US President Donald Trump’s fa... (more story)
EU lawmakers and governments negotiating an overhaul of the bloc's bank crisis management and deposit insurance framework failed to make a breakthrough in a fifth session of talks today and will hold another m... (more story)
Social media platforms like Meta have been warned they are in the “last chance saloon” when it comes to their inaction on fraud. Luke Charters, a Labour lawmaker and former regulator, said now is the time for ... (more story)
Kate Fitzgerald, head of policy at the UK Payment Systems Regulator and architect of its fraud-reimbursement regime, is leaving the regulator at the end of April, MLex has learned. News of her departure comes ... (more story)
Britain's financial services sector will see the UK Financial Conduct Authority retire over 100 pages of guidance which it says is "outdated," following calls from both the government and the industry for the ... (more story)
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Concerns that a move to abolish the UK’s dedicated payments regulator could result in less focus on payments are “absolutely reasonable,” a senior official from that regulator has said. “If we don’t think abou... (more story)
Regulatory changes to EU financial services are needed to “create truly integrated and deeper European capital markets, by achieving the Capital Markets Union as a matter of urgency,” EU leaders concluded at t... (more story)
US President Donald Trump’s firing of Democratic Federal Trade Commission members Alvaro Bedoya and Rebecca Kelly Slaughter is setting up a likely Supreme Court fight that could dramatically reshape the executive branch.
Strengthening EU-wide supervision of financial services is back on the agenda for the European Commission, which today put forward proposals as part of its “Savings and Investment Union.” Some EU member states... (more story)
Responses to a recent consultation on a future UK regulatory regime for cryptoassets show the industry is divided on whether the Consumer Duty, which requires firms to secure good outcomes for consumers, is en... (more story)
As the UK government asks regulators to help grow the economy and take more risk, the market needs to be ready for “more things to go wrong,” according to Nikhil Rathi, the chief of the UK Financial Conduct Au... (more story)
A push by New Zealand’s center-right government to reinvigorate antitrust policy and enforcement may be driven by a belief, put forward recently by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, th... (more story)
The Canadian government has moved up its timeline for changes to its anti-money laundering regulatory regime, bringing them into force on April 1 – six months earlier than originally proposed. Companies subjec... (more story)