On October 12, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a consultation paper (October Consultation Paper) setting out its proposals to amend the Decision Procedure and Penalties (DEPP) manual and Enforcement Guide (EG) of the FCA Handbook. The FCA explains that the amendments are needed because of the changes introduced by the statutory instrument (SI), which will be given to the UK Parliament by HM Treasury, implementing the EU Securitization Regulation (SR) that goes into effect on January 1, 2019.

The October Consultation Paper should be read alongside the FCA’s consultation paper that it published on August 1 (August Consultation Paper), which sets out other changes that will be needed to the FCA Handbook to implement the SR.
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