Last week the PRA published a letter directed to the CEOs of banks and PRA-designated investment firms regarding their exposures to...

In a new report published last week, the Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England began formalising its position on the...

The FCA has published a consultation paper setting out its approach to strengthening its financial promotion rules for high risk...

What feels several lifetimes ago in the world of crypto, in July 2020, HM Treasury published a consultation on bringing cryptoassets into...

Last week, the UK Law Commission (the "Commission") published its much anticipated advice to the Government on the application of the...

Yesterday John Glen, the economic secretary to the Treasury, made a statement on the progress made regarding the development of a UK...

The Legal 500 Blockchain UK chapter for 2021—contributed by Slaughter and May—has been published. For the first time, this year's chapter...

Do cryptoassets pose a risk to the stability of the UK's financial system? In a speech published on 13 October, Sir Jon Cunliffe, Deputy...

Recent months have seen an explosion in the popularity (and value) of non-fungible tokens (NFTs).  An NFT is a unique (non-fungible)...

Are they the next big thing or is it all hype? Will they revolutionise the art world or destroy it? Whatever your view, non-fungible...

The last few weeks have seen a number of cryptoasset milestones reach the mainstream press - in that context it is perhaps a tad...

The UK Jurisdiction Taskforce (UKJT) has publicly consulted on draft new Digital Dispute Resolution Rules that can be incorporated into...

On Monday the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its final report and high level recommendations on the regulation, supervision...

On 6 October 2020 the FCA published a Policy Statement (PS20/10) prohibiting the sale to retail clients of certain investment products...

It's been just over a year since Libra, the stablecoin concept seeded by Facebook and developed with a consortium of financial...

The announcement of Libra, the stablecoin effectively established by Facebook, in June last year took many global regulators by surprise....