What Does 2025 Hold? Key Upcoming Developments and Enforcement Trends

As ever, last year was a big year in the UK for financial services. Significant progress was made throughout 2024 in implementing post-Brexit reforms, with policymakers actively working to replace retained EU law with UK-specific regulations, enhance the regulatory approach to asset management, tailor prudential requirements to the UK markets, and update the retail funds regime. We expect these trends to continue in 2025, with the Consumer Duty, ESG, crypto regulation and operational resilience to also feature highly on the UK agenda. In enforcement, the prevention of financial crime remains a standing priority across the global regulatory landscape.

Our London Financial Institutions Regulatory and Enforcement experts explore the key developments and trends expected to dominate the regulatory landscape in 2025. 

Key themes discussed include:

• What should we expect in 2025?
• Global Enforcement Themes
• Enforcement, Financial Crime and Market Conduct
• Regulatory Direction of Travel in the UK
• Markets, Funds and Investments
• ESG
• Risk Management, Governance and Oversight
• Tech, Innovation and Data/AI
• Crypto
• Consumer Protection

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