On July 11, 2024, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published its final UK Listing Rules, which come into force on July 29, 2024. The new rules represent a major overhaul of th...
FTSE Russell has published a summary of provisional changes to its FTSE UK Index Series Ground Rules to cater for the proposed UK listing regime changes by the Financial Conduct Authority...
Davis Polk partners Dan Hirschovits and Simon Witty and counsel Mark Chalmers authored “How draft trading regs provide framework for UK regime” in Law360. In the article, they discuss...
The Financial Conduct Authority has published its long-awaited, further consultation paper seeking views on major proposed reforms to the UK listing regime, and setting out proposals for ...
On 22 November 2023, an updated draft of the Short Selling Regulations 2024 was published. It provides greater detail on the United Kingdom government’s plans to reform the short sellin...
On 27 November 2023, the draft of the Public Offers and Admissions to Trading Regulations 2023 was published and laid before Parliament. Once enacted, these regulations will replace the E...
Reforming the capital markets and regulatory framework to strengthen the UK’s position as a leading financial centre is a priority of the current government. In the last two years, ther...
In July 2023, the UK government published a revised and near-final draft statutory instrument setting out a new regulatory framework for public offers of securities and admission to tradi...
On 29 June 2023, the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 received royal assent. It represents one of the most important pieces of legislation for the United Kingdom’s financial serv...
On 10 July 2023, the UK’s Digitisation Taskforce published its interim recommendations on the eradication of paper-based processes in the UK securities settlement infrastructure.
