On November 29, the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper on applying the Senior Managers Regime (SMR) to benchmark administrators. (For more information on the Senior Managers and Certification Regime, or SM&CR, please see the July 28, 2017 edition of the Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest.)

SM&CR already applies to banks and insurers, and will apply to most other UK financial services firms as of December 9. Because benchmark administrators only began to be supervised by the FCA in January 2018, the SMR will apply to them starting December 7, 2020. This gives these firms one extra year to prepare for the regime.
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On December 13, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published three consultation papers (CPs) on the transition from its existing Approved Persons Regime (APR) to the new Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SM&CR).

The CPs follow the FCA’s July 2017 consultation papers, which consulted on extending the SM&CR regime to all regulated firms (including both FCA solo-regulated firms and insurers) (for further information, please see the Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest of July 28, 2017). However, in these most recent consultations, the FCA accepts that proportionate approaches are required to extend the SM&CR to different firms.
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