Overview

Stephenson Harwood's regular round-up of news, speeches and publications on financial services regulation and enforcement in the UK.

Content includes:

- ABI warns that insurance and banking should not be regulated in the same way
- AIFM Directive prompts AIMA to launch initiatives to mobilise global hedge fund industry
- CEBS publishes advice on information to be exchanged by host and home state supervisors under the CRD
- European Commission consults on the review of the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive
- OPSI publishes the Banking Act 2009 (Commencement No. 2) Order 2009
- The FSA protects sale and rent back customers
- The FSA proposes extension of separate deposit protection limits
- The FSA publishes consolidated policy statement on regulatory fees and levies for 2009/10
- The FSA reports on thematic review of over 50s’ life plans and financial promotion
- The FSA publishes Handbook Notice 88
- The FSA bans broker for failings on mortgage fraud prevention
- Trader is banned and fined £140,000 by the FSA for unauthorised ‘pre-hedging’
- The FSA’s insider dealing investigation yields six more arrests



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