Competence
The FSA has released CP 10/12 – “Competence and ethics”. The Code of Practice for Approved Persons (APER) will have some amendments, chief of which will be the addition of […] [...]
The FSA has released CP 10/12 – “Competence and ethics”. The Code of Practice for Approved Persons (APER) will have some amendments, chief of which will be the addition of […] [...]
The Regulatory Roundup Issue 10, 12 March 2010, reported that the FSA’s new reporting system – Online Notifications and Applications (‘ONA’) – had slipped a little behind on its release. […] [...]
As mentioned in Regulatory Roundup #5, the amended rules governing close links reporting which came into effect on 1 June 2010. The main change is that close links notification now […] [...]
The Financial Reporting Council (FRC) has released a revised version of the Combined Code, or, as it is now called, the UK Corporate Governance Code. Although the Code is strictly […] [...]
It will be noted that the final notices (Alpari (UK) Ltd and Sudip to Chattopadhyay) now refer to a firm/individual being able to appeal to the Upper Tribunal (Tax and […] [...]
On Monday 17 May 2010 the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee (“ECON”) voted 33 votes for and 11 against for the latest amendments to the European Parliament’s draft […] [...]
If your firm has set the Investment Management Certificate as an exam determinant in connection with SYSC5.1 (“A firm must employ personnel with the skills …” etc.) then a reminder […] [...]
Market Watch No 34 has been published by the FSA. An interesting article tucked away on page 2 advises that transaction reporting firms need a BIC code. Some firms will […] [...]
The Regulatory Roundup of 16 October 2009 contained an article on the new FSA reporting system – Online Notifications and Applications – which would be used for the submission of […] [...]
Following on from the release of CP10/3 (“Effective corporate governance”) – see Regulatory Roundup of 8th February – Graeme Ashley-Fenn spoke the other day at a BSA seminar on this […] [...]
With systemic risk and hedge funds in mind, the International Organization of Securities Commissions has released details of a template for the global collection of hedge fund information which it […] [...]
The Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive proposal saga continues to rumble on (the original draft Directive was issued at the end of April last year). After the ‘Swedish Proposal’ we […] [...]
Two brokers, Wills & Co and Direct Sharedeal (‘DS’), both met with FSA actions in February and there has been a large amount of publicity about both cases. Common to […] [...]
The FSA has issued its first consultation paper of 2010 – CP10/1. It is proposing changes to SUP 16.12 (Integrated Regulatory Reporting) and to the Disclosure and Transparency Rules within […] [...]
As you’ll know from SUP 17.2, provided certain conditions are met then portfolio managers are relieved from the responsibility of transaction reporting and instead rely on third parties e.g. the […] [...]
This month the FSA published “Close links – feedback on CP07/21” (PS09/17) which contains the new draft rules governing close links reporting. It must qualify as one of the slower […] [...]
A reminder that changes in the way that applications and notifications are submitted to the FSA are proposed. The new reporting system – Online Notifications and Applications (‘ONA’) – will […] [...]
The FSA held a briefing on October 9th on wholesale brokers, although many of the topics discussed could equally apply across the spectrum of wholesale small firms. What was particularly […] [...]
As you will know, there is an obligation on firms to disclose short positions of 0.25% or more in securities in (a) a rights issue period or (b) any security […] [...]
The abbreviation is for the Transaction Reporting Users Pack. The FSA have just issued an update which may be useful in addressing the odd query or two. Also below is […] [...]
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