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Simon Lovegrove

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Simon is a financial services know-how lawyer at Norton Rose. He has been a columnist at Financial Adviser since 2006.

Questions remain over FCA approach to future Arch Cru

Recently concerns have been raised regarding the proposed Financial Conduct Authority’s approach to prudential regulation.

Regulation  | May 16, 2012 |

  1. Regulation  | May 03, 2012

    FSA to develop ‘consistent’ policy for RDR waiver requests

    Discussion Paper due to be published this year will set out options to make it easier for the FSA to refuse approved persons applications.

  2. Regulation  | Apr 19, 2012

    FSA rhetoric is clear: don’t rest on laurels over contracts

    Regulator has clearly stated it still regularly sees examples of terms that are unclear or unfair.

  3. Regulation  | Apr 05, 2012

    New regulatory regime does not come cheap

    It is also clear that firms will need to carry out a lot of work to cope with the new regime and this means increased costs.

  4. Regulation  | Mar 22, 2012

    New regime at FSA coming in sooner than thought

    While the draft Financial Services Bill is slowly moving through the House of Commons there is a lot of activity going on at the FSA.

  5. Mar 08, 2012

    Be afraid, very afraid of the FCA

    New regulator will carry on the FSA’s enforcement work, where necessary strengthening its outcomes.

  6. Feb 23, 2012

    UK regulators are supervisory arm of Europe

    In February Hector Sants gave a speech in which he discussed what the FSA saw as the key issues on the European regulatory agenda.

  7. Regulation  | Feb 09, 2012

    Exposing the link between regulation and high politics

    According to the European Commission, opening the door to unanimity on financial services would have meant similar demands in other sectors

  8. Regulation  | Jan 26, 2012

    Simon Lovegrove: Moving towards a single EU guidebook

    In December last year, the chairman of the European Banking Authority, Andrea Enria, gave a speech on the move towards the Single European Rulebook.

  9. Jan 19, 2012

    Simon Lovegrove: The power of the UK veto

    Much has been written and said about David Cameron’s use of the UK’s veto at the European Council meeting last year.

  10. Regulation  | Dec 15, 2011

    Simon Lovegrove: Will the gov’t delay implementing Vickers?

    The joint committee on the draft Financial Services Bill has recently published an uncorrected transcript of the oral evidence given by the...

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