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China’s New Foreign Investment Law: the impact on financial institutions

China’s new Foreign Investment Law (“FIL”) was passed by the National People’s Congress (“NPC”) of the People’s Republic of China (“China” or “PRC”) on March 15, 2019. The FIL will take effect from January 1, 2020, and the existing legislation that has formed the backbone of Foreign Direct Investment (“FDI”) regulation in China since the 1980s (currently scattered over three laws) will be repealed on the same day.

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High Cost Credit Review: Further rules on overdraft pricing and competition remedies finalised

03 October 2019

Following publication of final rules and a further consultation on a range of measures transforming the overdraft market in June 2019, the FCA has now issued further...

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Loan Market Association’s ‘super senior/senior ICA’ - a new standard? Lev Fin Spin

18 June 2018

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Payment Accounts Regulations - Final Linked Services List has now been published

01 May 2018

On 30 April, the FCA published its Final Linked Services List. This represents an important milestone in the implementation of the Payment Accounts Regulations 2015 (PARs) and requires...

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Prioritising Brexit, continuing to tackle risks and opportunities of new technology: FCA publishes 2018/19 Business Plan

16 April 2018

The FCA has published its latest Business Plan, along with its Sector Views document covering all the markets the FCA regulates and providing context for its priorities by giving an overall ...

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Global Sandbox: the next stage for evolution of the fintech ecosystem

13 April 2018

Hogan Lovells hosted a panel discussion on 10 April 2018 with Innovate Finance on the FCA's regulatory global sandbox. Rachel Kent, partner and head of Financial Services Regulation at...

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Don't forget to update your documentation - the FCA to change its address in June

08 March 2018

On 2 March, the FCA published its 20th quarterly consultation paper (CP18/6). In CP18/6, the FCA confirmed that it will be changing its two operational locations in London and Edinburgh....

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