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Mar 11, 2022

Years and years

Figuring out the true cost of Brexit will take years and years, warned the deputy governor of the Bank of England, Jon Cunliffe, when...

Mar 4, 2022

Alchemy’s wizards

It was hard to know where to look this week. Events in Ukraine dominated naturally, but the UK government managed to announce a...

Feb 25, 2022

Solving a problem

The UK is set to ditch Solvency II regulations, according to a dinner speech provided by a government minister, in a move that could...

Feb 18, 2022

FRF Update

The UK government, via HM Treasury, recently gave an update on its post Brexit plans for financial regulation via the Future Regulatory...

Feb 11, 2022

With friends like these...

As tweeted recently by the Party of European Socialists, PES, in respect of electoral trends across the region; Social Democrats are in...

Feb 4, 2022

Brochure this, brochure that

On the matter of compare-and-contrast, this was the week that two quite different reports were put out on the impact of Brexit. That from...

Jan 28, 2022

No Brexit breather

Those hoping for a Singapore-on-Thames approach to regulation post Brexit might be slightly disappointed after the FCA and the House of...

Jan 21, 2022

Regime change

The Financial Conduct Authority showed off its post Brexit claws as it withdrew several temporary permissions for EU based asset managers...

Jan 14, 2022

So sorry

As BYOB entered the UK’s political lexicon, this past week has simply pointed to further hurdles to achieving the equivalence goal that...

Jan 6, 2022

New year, new reminders

Like the year gone past, 2022 has started with a reminder that certain transitions have come to an end, in this instance leading to...