New UK Financial Services Act, 2021

At a glance, the new Financial Services Act 2021- sets forth the following:

• UK Benchmarks framework – enabling the UK FCA to designate a critical benchmark and to prohibit new use of outgoing benchmarks;
• Access to financial services markets- between UK and Gibraltar
• Overseas Funds Regime (OFR) – simplification of process to enable overseas investment funds to be marketed into the UK, amending Part 17 of FSMA, Money Market Funds from ‘approved’ countries/territories;
• Introduction of a new prudential regime for credit institutions and investment firms
• New consumer ‘duty of care’ to be consulted on by the FCA;
• Power of the FCA to clarify the scope of the on-shored PRIIPs regulation
• Additional powers for ‘Buy-now, Pay-later’ Schemes
• Process for the FCA under Part 4A to cancel or vary the authorisation of a firm, particular inactive firms;
• Increasing sentence for insider dealing and financial services offences

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