On October 25, the Bank of England (BoE) and the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a package of Brexit-related communications and consultation papers which propose changes to the relevant onshored binding technical standards (BTS), the rules for financial market infrastructure providers (FMIs) and the PRA Rulebook, which arise from the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union.
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On October 10, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published two consultation papers relating to the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit). The first, CP18/28, is the FCA’s first consultation paper on proposed changes to the FCA Handbook and to binding technical standards (BTS) resulting from Brexit. The second, CP18/29, focuses on the temporary permissions regime for inbound firms and funds. The temporary permissions regime will allow EU firms and funds to continue regulated business in the United Kingdom, if the United Kingdom leaves the European Union in March 2019 without an implementation period in place (for further details, see the July 27 edition of Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest).
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On July 16, a draft of the Financial Regulators’ Powers (Technical Standards etc.) (Amendment etc.) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018 was published. The publication of the draft regulations follows the making of the first delegated legislation under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018 earlier this month (discussed in the Corporate & Financial Weekly Digest edition of July 13, 2018) and provides one of the first indications of the UK approach to “onshoring” EU legislation as part of the United Kingdom’s withdrawal from the European Union (Brexit).
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