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Financial services: non-contentious/regulatory

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Relaunched in 2024 by Amanda Hulme, the regulatory team at TLT handles a broad range of matters, covering asset wealth management, private wealth, payment services, and retail financial services. Practice head Hulme is a go-to adviser for major UK banks, building societies, and payment firms, offering expert, strategic counsel on regulatory change, product design, and compliance across sectors like motor finance, BNPL, and e-money. Ben Cooper specialises in economic crime compliance, designing and implementing global anti-financial crime programmes focused on sanctions, AML, bribery prevention, and corporate ethics. Andrzej Wieckowski provides expert guidance on prudential matters, payments, blockchain, and operational resilience.
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Testimonials

Collated independently by Legal 500 research team.

  • ‘TLT's FS practice is building a really strong and growing team with a broad banking client base. Their rates are attractive compared to competitors and the quality of advice is as strong as the top-tier FS Regulatory firms. Our go-to team for advice on payments, consumer credit and retail banking.’

  • ‘Amanda Hulme has built a great team in her short time at TLT. She has been a great support to us over the past year and is always willing to pick up the phone and chat something through. She brings a unique perspective to the legal issues we throw her way, and always worth getting her view on a difficult regulatory issue.'

  • 'Ben Cooper brings his knowledge of working in-house in financial crime to his advice, which means he's always pragmatic and considers things like he's sitting in an internal team. Very experienced in matters where conduct, financial crime, and FS regulatory crossover.’

  • ‘This is a new team with expertise in many areas of financial services. The team is responsive, easy to work with fair and reasonable prices. The team issues timely and useful legal digests on changes to law or regulation, which are helpful for updating internal stakeholders.’

  • ‘Amanda Hulme is a recognised expert in this field. We value her commercial, practical advice, which is always given with an acute understanding of the business and what is needed from an external adviser. We have also worked with Catherine MacPherson, who we find easy and pragmatic to work with. Her previous in-house experience has proven valuable and means we can, if needed, put her directly in front of our internal clients, knowing that she will understand the challenges and what is needed.’

  • ‘Amanda Hulme and Catherine MacPherson are a very strong duo with strong analytical skills and legal knowledge, excellent industry and reg insight, and a common sense commercial approach.’

Key clients

  • Triodos Bank
  • UK Finance
  • Chrysalis Finance
  • Darlington Building Society
  • Bank of Baroda
  • Energy Savings Trust
  • H&T
  • Vanquis
  • NewDay
  • Novuna
  • Skipton Building Society
  • Specialist Motor Finance

Work highlights

Assisting on several issues involving banks considering their compliance with the CMA Retail Banking Market Investigation Order
Retained by UK Finance to provide ongoing support to its members on the anticipated reform of the Consumer Credit Regime.
Assisting a UK clearing bank in evaluating and pulling together an approach to the FCA consultation on simplification of its Rulebook following implementation of the Consumer Duty.

Practice head

Amanda Hulme

Other key lawyers

Ben Cooper; Andrzej Wieckowski; Catherine MacPherson