Financial Institutions Webinar Calendar 2025
Below are details of our Financial Institutions autumn 2025 webinar programme. If you would like to attend, please email christina.glattli@farrer.co.uk. Invitations to webinars will be sent out by email. If you would like to be included on our Financial Institutions mailing list, subscribe here.
Tuesday 16 September - 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Financial Institutions update
In this webinar, we will provide a horizon scanning presentation on forthcoming legal and regulatory changes impacting financial institutions including:
- The Leeds Reforms and the Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy
- Changes to the Senior Managers & Certification Regime
- The Advice Guidance Boundary Review and new regulated activity of providing targeted support
Tuesday 14 October - 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Asset managers
The second webinar will focus on topics relevant to asset managers and will include presentations on:
- The Direct2Fund model and fund tokenisation
- Latest on Consumer Composite Investments (CCI)
- Review of the UK Funds regime including the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD)
- Top tips for asset managers when considering external investment from third parties (rather than outright sale)
Tuesday 25 November - 12.00pm - 1.00pm
Private banks and payments firms
The final webinar in the programme will focus on topics relevant to private banks and payments firms, and will include presentations on:
- The FCA’s Mortgage Rule Review
- Latest on the review and repeal of parts of the Consumer Credit Act 1974 and changes to CONC
- Open Banking recap and latest on Open Finance regulatory framework
- National Payments Vision update
- Supreme Court judgment in Waller-Edwards v One Savings Bank Plc (2025) relating to non-commercial hybrid lending transactions
- Guest speaker Peter Tyler from UK Finance on current work priorities for UK Finance
Recent topics
Financial Institutions update webinar
- 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
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.
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.
You will be able to ask questions during each webinar, but you can also email questions in advance to Grania Baird at grania.baird@farrer.co.uk.
The contents of webinars may vary slightly to reflect current developments.
We are happy to organise internal seminars at clients' premises on agreed topics. If this is of interest, please contact a member of our team.
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