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In November 2008, the Treasury published 'A Report to the Chancellor of the Exchequer: by the Rights Issue Review Group' which proposed a series of far-reaching reforms to the rights issue process. Rights issues in the UK currently take at least 39 days, but if the proposals in the report are implemented this would fall almost immediately to 32 days, and for many issues to 16 days.

On 20 January 2007 the Transparency Directive ("TD") was implemented in the United Kingdom with effect from 20 January 2007 through the Financial Services Authority’s ("FSA") Transparency Obligations Directive (Disclosure and Transparency Rules) Instrument 2006. This note is a brief guide to the main changes resulting from the implementation of the TD in the UK.

Since 2021, successive governments and regulators have focused on reform of the UK's capital markets and regulatory framework to strengthen the UK's position as a leading financial centre.

Treasury makes consumer credit SIs: Treasury has made two statutory instruments (SIs) making changes consequent on the transfer of consumer credit regulation to FCA under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA)

Welcome to the August 2009 edition of Banking and Capital Markets Insight, which focuses on technical issues currently coming out of the banking, capital markets, securities and fund management arenas.

Twenty-five years ago, the American rock group R.E.M. introduced a song that detailed, in rapid fire, a litany of pop culture references that summarized the concerns of a generation in its title – "It's the End of the World as We Know It (And I Feel Fine)."

Credit rating agencies (“CRAs”) have been very much in the eye of the storm of the sub-prime crisis and ongoing turmoil in the financial markets, in which they have been heavily implicated.

As the market is forming a view on the Commission's SFDR 2.0 proposals, this article provides an overview of where the key industry voices are landing.

In the past year, the number of managers adding real estate debt to their product arsenal has increased significantly.

The long anticipated Turner Report was published in November 2005. If the government acts on its recommendations, the UK pensions landscape will undergo and remarkable change.The most obvious benefit to the fund management industry would be the chance to add up to 12 million new customers to their books.

The FSA has gone to press with sharp criticism of recent online promotions for Venture Capital Trusts. The FSA cited a number of intermediaries who were accentuating the positive, but significantly underrating the negatives in their online communications. Claire Aquilina reports on the FSA’s concerns.

On May 20, 2020, the UK government published its highly anticipated Corporate Insolvency and Governance Bill.

Bonds are often used by governments to fund infrastructure projects or war spending.

Quoted business catches up with Marcus Stuttard, head of AIM at the LSE, to find out how the growth market is faring and its plans for the future

Our client alert dated 4th February 2009, “UK Government’s Banking Support Measures,” reported on the comprehensive programme of legislative and financial measures introduced by the UK Government (“Govt.”) to help support the UK banking industry through the ongoing global financial turmoil.

Welcome to the February 2010 edition of Banking and Capital Markets Insight, which focuses on technical issues currently coming out of the banking, capital markets, securities and fund management arenas.

In this issue of Quoted Business we look at the internationalisation of Aim, and how cross-border mergers and acquisitions are fl ourishing alongside it.