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UK Financial Services and Markets Bill 2026-27: A major milestone of the government’s growth and competitiveness strategy
With the introduction of the Financial Services and Markets Bill 2026-27 to Parliament on 19 May 2026, the UK government has pulled together several significant strands of work from its 2025 Regulation Action Plan, FS Growth and Competitiveness Strategy and Leeds Reforms – making this the first major piece of financial services regulatory reform in some time. Publication of the Bill was preceded by a flurry of consultation responses and announcements on some of its key provisions, providing...By: Hogan Lovells
Nordic Bonds: An Alternative Option for Acquisition Financings
Nordic bonds have evolved from a niche regional product into a credible alternative for acquisition financings and other leveraged transactions. Increasingly used by non-Nordic issuers across Europe, the United States, and the Asia-Pacific, the market offers a distinct execution channel sitting alongside private credit, syndicated lending, and traditional high-yield bonds....By: Jones Day
UK FCA review finds some financial promotion approvers need to raise standards
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published a press release highlighting that some firms, when approving financial promotions, should be doing more to protect consumers in line with the consumer duty. The FCA carried out a review that assessed ten authorised firms that approve financial promotions for businesses which are not authorised by the FCA, looking at firms who were approving financial promotions for buy-now, pay-later (also now referred to as deferred payment credit),...By: A&O Shearman
United States designates Brazilian criminal organizations as Foreign Terrorist Organizations
On May 28, 2026, the United States announced the designations of Primeiro Comando da Capital (PCC) and Comando Vermelho (CV) – two of Brazil’s largest and most powerful criminal organizations – as Foreign Terrorist Organizations (FTOs), effective June 5, and Specially Designated Global Terrorists (SDGTs), effective immediately. The practical consequences are significant: SDGT designation blocks any assets the groups hold under US jurisdiction and prohibits US persons from conducting business...By: White & Case LLP
RegFi Episode 99: Unlocking Legal Data for AI and Compliance
OpenLaws founder and CEO John Phamvan joins RegFi co-hosts Jerry Buckley and Sherry Safchuk to examine how OpenLaws is building comprehensive, reliable, and continuously updated access to statutes, regulations, and other legal materials across federal and state jurisdictions. They discuss the challenges of sourcing and standardizing legal data at scale, the role of OpenLaws’ API and emerging products in supporting legal, compliance, and public policy workflows, and the growing importance of...By: Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP
SEC Proposes Public Company Reporting Reform: Two-Tier Filer Status Framework, Five-Year IPO On-Ramp and Expanded Scaled Disclosure
On May 19, 2026, as part of its "Make IPOs Great Again" agenda, the Securities and Exchange Commission proposed two sets of transformative amendments to its rules and forms intended to encourage companies to become and remain public....By: Venable LLP
MiCA Review: European Commission Launches Consultation on EU Cryptoasset Regulatory Framework
Participants are invited to comment on the appropriateness of MiCA by 31 August 2026....By: Latham & Watkins LLP
FDIC Proposes Bank Secrecy Act and Sanctions Standards for Stablecoin Issuers
On May 22, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) Board of Directors approved a notice of proposed rulemaking to extend Bank Secrecy Act (BSA) and sanctions compliance standards to the permitted payment stablecoin issuers (PPSIs) it supervises under the Guiding and Establishing National Innovation for U.S. Stablecoins Act (the GENIUS Act). These GENIUS Act BSA and sanctions compliance rules for PPSIs were recently proposed by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Financial Crimes...By: Troutman Pepper Locke
UK Pensions: What’s new this week? June 2026
Welcome to your weekly update from the A&O Shearman Pensions team, covering all the latest legal and regulatory developments in the world of workplace pensions....By: A&O Shearman
[Audio] Powering Progress | Ep. 6 – Power, Scale, and Scrutiny
As AI and data center development accelerate, the competition for power, infrastructure, and emerging technologies is intensifying, just as regulators are taking a closer look at consolidation across these markets. In this episode, Vinson & Elkins' Chief Innovation Officer Aubrey Bishai is joined by Antitrust Partner Evan Miller, who advises clients on merger investigations and antitrust counseling across energy, technology, and infrastructure markets. They discuss why antitrust analysis in...By: Vinson & Elkins LLP
VA Announces Launch of New Partial Claim Program to Help Protect Veterans from Foreclosure with VA Home Loans
As previously reported, in July 2025 Congress passed legislation to reauthorize partial claims with U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) guaranteed home loans....By: Ballard Spahr LLP
The Payments Newsletter including Digital Assets & Blockchain, May 2026
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK Financial Services and Markets Bill 2026-27 being introduced to Parliament as the first major piece of financial services regulatory reform in some time; publication of the final compromise texts for the EU's proposed PSD3 and PSR; a new PACE Act to modernise the payment landscape being introduced to the U.S. House of Representatives; the European Commission publishing consultations on a review of MiCA; and the FCA and Bank of...By: Hogan Lovells
[Video] AI Today in 5: June 2, 2026, The Exposing Yourself Edition
Welcome to AI Today in 5, the newest addition to the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, Tom Fox will bring you 5 stories about AI to start your day. Sit back, enjoy a cup of morning coffee, and listen in to the AI Today In 5. All, from the Compliance Podcast Network. Each day, we consider five stories from the business world, compliance, ethics, risk management, leadership, or general interest about AI. Top AI stories include: • A compliance gap that can expose your AI systems. (FinTech...By: Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist
Stablecoins for payments: UK government has consulted on draft SI exempting such services from scope of new crypto regime pending further payments reform proposals
HM Treasury has recently consulted on a draft SI amending the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (Cryptoassets) Regulations 2026 (the Crypto Regulations) to exempt stablecoin payments firms from the requirement to obtain authorisations for cryptoasset dealing and arranging under the new cryptoasset regulatory regime from October 2027. More generally, payments firms should also be ready to review the wider payments services reform proposals that the government currently plans to publish...By: Hogan Lovells
SoFi Launches First Bank-Issued Stablecoin (SoFiUSD) on Consumer Banking App
On May 27, 2026, SoFi Technologies made its U.S. dollar-backed stablecoin, SoFiUSD, available directly to its nearly 15 million members within the SoFi app. While SoFiUSD (also identified on-chain as SOFID) first launched in December 2025 for enterprise clients, this consumer rollout makes it the first stablecoin issued by a U.S. national bank to be offered directly through a consumer banking app. Members can buy, sell, hold and convert SoFiUSD in-app, with full availability expected by early...By: Loeb & Loeb LLP
Prediction Markets and Insider Trading: Compliance Considerations
Prediction markets are online platforms that allow users to buy and sell event contracts whose payoffs depend on whether specified real-world events occur. The categories of events are virtually limitless. They include geopolitical developments; regulatory approvals, outcomes or announcements; significant weather events; sporting event-related matters; election results; product launches; earnings-related milestones; and other corporate activity....By: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
Supreme Court Decision Creates Uncertainty in Determining Pension Exposure for Unionized Properties
Real estate owners or buyers in the market to purchase a real estate property, or to provide mortgage financing for a real estate property that has a unionized workforce at the property should heed the Supreme Court's recent decision in M&K Employee Solutions, LLC v. Trustees of the IAM National Pension Fund, 608 U.S. __ (2026), and should identify pension exposure early in any transaction or operational change involving union labor. The case concerns "withdrawal liability," which is the amount...By: Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
Consumer Advocacy Groups and Other Plaintiffs Challenge CFPB’s Regulation B (Subpart A) Overhaul
On May 27, the National Fair Housing Alliance (NFHA), Rise Economy (formerly known as the California Reinvestment Coalition), and two fair lending compliance companies (BLDS, LLC, and SolasAI) filed suit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia challenging the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s (CFPB or Bureau) Regulation B (Subpart A) final rule, which implements the Equal Credit Opportunity Act (ECOA), and was issued on April 22, 2026....By: Troutman Pepper Locke
SEC Proposes Reforms to Filer Status Categories and Expanded Disclosure Accommodations
Share on LinkedIn Share on Twitter Print Share by Email Share Back to top On May 19, 2026, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) proposed rule amendments to revise the current five overlapping filer categories – large accelerated filer (LAF), accelerated filer (AF), non-accelerated filer (NAF), smaller reporting company (SRC), and emerging growth company (EGC) – and replace them with two primary reporting categories: LAF and NAF......By: Foley & Lardner LLP
UK FCA's updated webpage on quality controls in benchmarks sector
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has updated its webpage on quality controls in the benchmarks sector, which is relevant to benchmark administrators, price reporting agencies and data suppliers. The update sets out the FCA's findings following a multi-firm review of the quality of calculation controls, looking in particular at error identification, classification, prioritisation and notification....By: A&O Shearman
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