Financial Institutions Webinar Calendar 2024
We are delighted to provide details of our Financial Institutions webinar offering for 2024. 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 17 September
Financial Institutions webinar
12pm – 1pm
In this webinar we will provide a regulatory overview relevant for all firms, including presentations on:
- 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.
Tuesday 15 October
Asset Managers and Investment Funds webinar
12pm – 1pm
The second webinar will focus on topics relevant to Asset Managers and will include presentations on:
- 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.
Tuesday 19 November
Private Banks and Payments Firms webinar
12pm – 1pm
The final webinar in the Autumn Programme will focus on topics relevant to Private Banks and Payments firms and will include presentations on:
- Views on the APP reimbursement regime in practice.
- Reminder on the new rules and guidance in MCOB on protections for customers in financial difficulty.
- Top tips for firms considering enforcement of regulated mortgages.
- Practical implications for banks as a result of BASEL 3.1.
Recent topics
Private Banks Webinar
This webinar focused on topics relevant to private banks and payments firms and included presentations on:
- The Payment Systems' Regulator (PSR) Authorised Push Payment (APP) fraud reimbursement requirements; and
- Amendments to the Payment Services Regulations 2017, extension of the Confirmation of Payee requirements and other developments in relation to payments.
Speakers: Grania Baird, Nandini Sur, Sally Mantell and Peter Tyler, Director UK Finance
