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The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) is today proposing stricter rules for firms selling ‘contract for difference’ (CFD) products to retail customers to improve standards across the sector and ensure consumers are appropriately protected. Contracts...

Contracts for differences, such as spread bets and rolling spot foreign exchange products, are complex financial instruments offered by investment firms, often through online platforms. Following an increase in the number of firms in the CFD market...

Following the recommendations and guidelines of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) from mid-October in regards to forex and binary options regulation, the Cyprus Securities and Exchange Commission (CySEC) and now the Financial Conduct...

The FCA recently published a consultation paper proposing changes to the way it currently regulates CFD markets. You can read press release & consultation paper directly from the FCA’s site – but in essence what it proposes is to: Ban the practice...

Welcome to this month’s Regulatory Round-Up, which summarises FCA announcements and other regulatory information we have circulated during August. Overview During August, we continued our discussions with the Government on the ‘Brexit’ implications...