Financial Institutions Webinar Calendar 2025
We are delighted to provide details of our Financial Institutions webinar offering for 2025. If you are interested in attending, please sign up via the links below. If you would like to be included on our mailing list and receive our updates and future event invitations please contact christina.glattli@farrer.co.uk
Tuesday 28 January - 12pm
Financial Institutions webinar
This webinar will provide a regulatory overview relevant for all firms.
- Horizon scanning: what’s coming up in 2025
- Consumer Duty – FCA work programme and priorities for 2025
- Advice guidance boundary review – latest proposals
- Impact of the changes to the UK Non-dom rules and what we are seeing in the market
Tuesday 25 February - 12pm
Asset Managers and Investment Funds webinar
This webinar will focus on topics relevant to Asset Managers and Investment Funds.
- The UK’s new retail disclosure regime for Consumer Composite Investments
- MiFID update – HMT’s proposals for reform
- ESG update including regulation of ratings providers and progress on SDR / labels
- FCA rules changes relating to non-financial misconduct
- PISCES
Tuesday 1 April - 12pm
Private Banks and Payments Firms webinar
This webinar will focus on topics relevant to Private Banks and Payments firms.
- Property law changes and the impact for lenders, including discussion of the Renters’ Right Bill
- An update on Motor finance and considering wider implications
- Latest regulatory developments for crypto and stablecoin
- Update on financial crime and AML including recent changes to Financial Crime guide and recent cases
Recent topics
Financial Institutions webinar
- New Government priorities: what’s on the horizon for financial services regulation.
- Reflections on the Consumer Duty in practice plus the FCA review of treatment of vulnerable customers.
- Recent FCA enforcement cases and key takeaways. Request recording
Asset Managers and Investment Funds webinar
- Tax roundup, including VAT developments, tax rules for the new Reserved Investor Fund and possible carried interest changes.
- The latest on the FCA’s Sustainability Disclosure and Labelling Regime (SDR) with practical guidance for: - Asset managers applying the regime to their authorised funds including those who will be using a label and those who are only subject to the naming and marketing rules - Discretionary investment managers and lessons they can draw from the experience of asset managers of the new regime.
- The UK Overseas Funds Regime what we are seeing in practice and top tips for firms.
- Fund tokenisation progress.
Private Banks Webinar
- The new rules and guidance in MCOB on protections for customers in financial difficulty.
- Top tips for firms considering enforcement of regulated mortgages.
- An update on payments including the APP reimbursement mechanism in practice, an update on open banking, including the government’s proposals for a legislative framework in the Digital Information and Smart Data Bill, and the PSR’s proposals to expand Variable Recurring Payments.
- New Equality, Race and Disability Bill and Employment Rights Bill.
