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A recent court ruling that expands legal advice privilege to cover some internal corporate communications gives companies greater scope for withholding sensitive material but is likely to prompt challenges over whether those documents meet the test for protection, lawyers say.
The European Union has a plan for a blocwide secondary trading platform for private companies to prevent them from slipping away to the deeper capital pools available in the U.S., although the proposal might be hindered by jurisdictional barriers.
Banks and vehicle financing companies are expected to mount legal challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's £7.5 billion ($9.9 billion) motor finance compensation program, threatening to capsize the plan and probably delay its implementation for months.
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The Financial Conduct Authority has been given a lead role in targeting money laundering, crypto-assets and money transfer scams in a government fraud strategy involving multiple agencies, which lawyers expect will boost enforcement action and heap a new compliance burden on financial institutions.
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A recent court ruling that expands legal advice privilege to cover some internal corporate communications gives companies greater scope for withholding sensitive material but is likely to prompt challenges over whether those documents meet the test for protection, lawyers say.
The European Union has a plan for a blocwide secondary trading platform for private companies to prevent them from slipping away to the deeper capital pools available in the U.S., although the proposal might be hindered by jurisdictional barriers.
Banks and vehicle financing companies are expected to mount legal challenges to the Financial Conduct Authority's £7.5 billion ($9.9 billion) motor finance compensation program, threatening to capsize the plan and probably delay its implementation for months.
The Financial Conduct Authority has been given a lead role in targeting money laundering, crypto-assets and money transfer scams in a government fraud strategy involving multiple agencies, which lawyers expect will boost enforcement action and heap a new compliance burden on financial institutions.
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April 28, 2026
European authorities warned Tuesday that cybercriminals are becoming more sophisticated and difficult to detect as they leverage artificial intelligence tools, encrypted messaging platforms and the dark web to evade law enforcement.
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April 28, 2026
People's Partnership has become the first British master trust provider to join the Pensions Management Institute's Development Partnership program, which aims to raise professional standards across the pensions industry.
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April 28, 2026
Fears over a tax raid on pensions have led to a surge in Britons cashing out of their long-term savings in the run-up to Budget announcements, a consultancy found Tuesday.
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April 28, 2026
Four in five adults in Britain are not aware of the long-awaited pensions dashboards project designed to connect savers with lost savings pots, according to a KPMG survey, with knowledge of the forthcoming portals lowest among those closest to retirement.
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April 28, 2026
Britain is becoming an increasingly elderly society, with major implications for pensions, the economy and public services, the Office for National Statistics said Tuesday
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April 28, 2026
Barclays unveiled a £500 million ($674 million) share buyback on Tuesday as the lender reported a steady rise in profit and income in the first three months of 2026.
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April 27, 2026
The push to create new pension megafunds in the coming years could further concentrate power in the hands of just a few professional trustees, a consultancy warned Tuesday.
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April 27, 2026
A London court struck out former dotcom entrepreneur Robert Bonnier's claim on Monday against property developer Nick Candy over a wrongly obtained freezing order, concluding that the entrepreneur and his company's bankruptcy trustee repeatedly breached court orders.
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April 27, 2026
A consumer rights group said Monday it has filed a legal challenge over how the Financial Conduct Authority's £7.5 billion ($9.9 billion) motor finance redress scheme calculates compensation, warning that it could otherwise leave millions of consumers out of pocket.
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April 27, 2026
A diamond and jewelry tycoon swindled more than $1 billion from banks in an Indian gold bullion fraud and diverted it to entities connected to him and his family, liquidators for U.K. companies said Monday at the first day of a High Court trial.
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April 27, 2026
Broadstone said on Monday that it will provide administration services to members of the Videndum DB Pension Scheme a week after the retirement savings plan revealed that it would transfer into defined benefit superfund Clara Pensions.
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April 27, 2026
The government was forced to refund £44.1 million ($59.7 million) in overcharged tax on pension income in the first three months of the year, a figure that has remained largely unchanged despite reforms last year.
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April 27, 2026
The European Union's market regulators warned national watchdogs, financial institutions and investors on Monday to closely manage the risk to private finance from its exposure to cloud software operators that use artificial intelligence.
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April 27, 2026
The City watchdog unveiled plans on Monday to amend research rules that it said cause a seven-day delay to London's initial public offering process, as it looks to reinvigorate Britain's ailing capital markets.
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April 24, 2026
The son of a diamond tycoon accused of swindling $1 billion from banks has lost his latest bid to challenge his legal bills from Howard Kennedy LLP, as a judge held Friday that he understood his "ongoing liability" from the international fraud case.
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April 24, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday that financial services companies are facing growing risks from artificial intelligence-led attacks and finding it difficult to get senior manager support in developing defenses.
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April 24, 2026
A Maltese fintech company has denied unlawfully withholding €2.2 million ($2.6 million) from two U.K. nonfungible token businesses, countersuing them in a London court for around €2.8 million for allegedly incorrectly coding gambling transactions, causing it to lose its payment provider.
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April 24, 2026
The past week in London has seen a Hong Kong company sue the government and a COVID-19 PPE company linked to Tory peer Michelle Mone, an oligarch bring a fresh claim against a rival in a long-running feud, a rugby league club sue over a canceled mass dance event, and Visa and Mastercard hit with legal action from H&M, Eurostar, and Bang & Olufsen. Here, Law360 looks at these and other new claims in the U.K.
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April 24, 2026
The Pensions Regulator has warned that retirement savings plans are falling behind in preparing their members' data for new online pensions dashboards, with six months to go before a hard deadline for the landmark project.
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April 24, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Friday that it has spearheaded a week of global action to stop illegal "finfluencers" who put consumers' money at risk.
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April 24, 2026
The European Union said Friday that it has hit Russia with a fresh round of sanctions that target financial services, including cryptocurrency companies, as part of a broader package.
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April 24, 2026
The father of two brothers accused of owing almost £5 million ($6.8 million) in outstanding payments on an investment loan has admitted that he misled them, but has denied liability for the lender's claimed loss.
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April 23, 2026
A tax barrister has been suspended from practice until 2027, the bar regulator has said, following the failure of his £8 million ($10.8 million) libel claim against former Clifford Chance LLP partner Dan Neidle.
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April 23, 2026
The Financial Conduct Authority said Thursday that investment adviser Sapia Partners LLP has agreed to pay £19.6 million ($26.5 million) to clients of WealthTek, a wealth manager that has since collapsed, after failing to protect client money.
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April 23, 2026
A Scottish court has sentenced a former Royal Bank of Scotland banker to 21 months imprisonment for soliciting £274,000 ($370,000) in bribes from business clients while working in the bank's Global Restructuring Group in the wake of the 2010 financial crisis.