Financial Institutions Webinar Calendar 2026
Below are details of our Financial Institutions Autumn 2026 webinar programme.
Please contact christina.glattli@farrer.co.uk if you have any further questions.
Tuesday 15 September
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Key regulatory developments
This webinar will cover recent and forthcoming legal and regulatory changes relevant to all financial institutions including presentations on:
- a preview of Q4's regulatory agenda and what’s on the horizon for firms;
- Consumer Duty, including changes to scope and recent FCA interventions;
- operational incident reporting and material third-party arrangements;
- modernising the redress system, including changes to the Financial Ombudsman Service rules; and
- financial crime, including recent supervisory publications and enforcement cases.
Tuesday 13 October
12.00pm - 1.00pm
Asset managers
The webinar will focus on topics relevant to asset managers and include presentations on:
- UK AIFM regime reform;
- Fund reporting for asset management entities (FRAME): the FCA's proposed replacement and consolidation of fund and asset-management reporting;
- New liquidity risk management rules for UK retail funds including anti-dilution tools, asset-liquidity assessment and stress testing; and
- Solo-regulated firms' remuneration rules review.
Tuesday 24 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.
- PRA supervisory priorities for UK and international banks;
- The FCA's retail banking supervisory agenda;
- Latest on open banking, open finance and stablecoin regulation;
- Mortgage rule review; and
- Reform of the Consumer Credit Act.
Recent topics
Financial Institutions update
- Horizon scanning for the year, including updates to the SM&CR regime, targeted support, FCA proposed changes to the client categorisation and conflicts regime
- A crypto update, including the new regulatory regime for stablecoins and other cryptoassets
- Consumer Duty update
- Cross border developments re the Berne Financial Services Agreement and impact of CRD VI for UK firms
Asset managers
- Proposed reform of the Appointed Representatives Regime
- The FCA's proposed changes to the liquidity risk management framework for funds
- Recent developments in private markets
Private banks and payments firms
- An update on the Mortgage Rule Review, the new FCA Regulatory Priorities Reports for consumer finance, retail banking, mortgages, and payments and latest on the Consumer Duty
- The FCA's consultation on simplifying the pensions and advice rules
- New capital requirements for Small Domestic Deposit Takers and proposed changes to the high loan-to-income (LTI) flow limit
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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