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UK seeks to revive securitization market with lighter compliance regime February 17, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

UK financial regulators on Tuesday proposed easing the country’s securitization regime, outlining plans to simplify due-diligence and transparency requirements in a bid to reduce compliance costs and revive market activity.

Former Carillion boss fined by UK's FCA for failing to raise alarm over troubles February 16, 2026 | Martin Coyle

The former head of collapsed construction company Carillion has been fined £237,700 by the UK financial regulator after failing to alert the market about the company’s “serious” financial troubles. The firm ex... (more story)

Banks get relief from US Treasury’s customer due diligence rule February 13, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

The US Treasury Department has relaxed its rules on customer due diligence, telling financial institutions on Friday that they no longer must identify the beneficial owner of a legal entity at each new account opening.

UK equity tape won't fix high market data fees, banking body tells regulator February 13, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The planned equity consolidated tape, a single feed of information on UK equity trading, will not resolve the rising cost of market data, a leading banking trade group has told the country's financial services... (more story)

US SEC’s Atkins says PCAOB members to review China compliance on audit deal February 12, 2026 | Neil Roland

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said his new Public Company Accounting Oversight Board members will look into suspicions that China may be gaming a bilateral agreement that authorizes A... (more story)

US SEC’s Atkins says he's asked White House to tap Democrats to fill two empty seats February 12, 2026 | Neil Roland

US Securities and Exchange Commission Chair Paul Atkins said he has asked the White House to appoint two Democrats to fill the open seats at the agency, but “it takes two to tango.” The SEC has had a 3-0 Repub... (more story)

EU chief ready to speed up capital markets reform with small group of EU states February 12, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The European Commission’s President Ursula von der Leyen on Wednesday called for EU countries to agree to legal proposals by the end of the year, which would better integrate the bloc’s capital markets. If cou... (more story)

UK picks HSBC’s blockchain platform for digital bond pilot February 12, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK has chosen Orion, HSBC’s blockchain platform, to handle the pilot issuance of digital bonds this year. The initiative aims to modernize UK sovereign debt issuance using distributed ledger technology.

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UK watchdog’s £10m investor threshold puts growth ambitions under the spotlight February 17, 2026 | Sofia Gerace

The UK's financial regulator is considering a new £10 million wealth threshold to allow high-net-worth individuals to forgo retail investor protections — a move that sparked industry and consumer debate. The f... (more story)

Differences in UK's military and civilian AI regimes can inform good regulation February 13, 2026 | Frank Hersey

UK financial services’ adoption of AI is already benefitting from stress-testing techniques developed for assessing military uses of AI that can help the financial regulator understand what’s going on under th... (more story)

EU leaders to ignite debate on bank capital rules February 11, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The issue of reviewing the EU bank capital framework will be raised by some member states during an informal meeting of EU leaders on competitiveness on Feb. 12 at a castle in eastern Belgium. These informal d... (more story)

Lower bank capital requirements won’t improve profitability, ECB official says February 10, 2026 | Fanny Roux

Resilience, backed up by supervision, is the key to the European banking sector’s competitiveness, Patrick Montagner, a member of the European Central Bank supervisory board, has told MLex, hitting back agains... (more story)

Dassault's court date arrives for EU green taxonomy fight over business aircraft February 09, 2026 | Louis de Briant

Dassault Aviation will argue to EU judges on Tuesday that business aircraft were unlawfully excluded from the bloc’s green taxonomy. The case is significant in marking the first time a company has sought to ov... (more story)

Debate over EU bank capital rules proving tricky for the European Commission February 03, 2026 | Fanny Roux

The European Commission faces a challenging task weighing up the differing views of supervisors and banks on reforms to streamline the EU bank capital framework. They disagree on the impact of a bank's capital... (more story)

Trump-Biden split on US noncompete enforcement offers deterrence test January 31, 2026 | Chris May

US Federal Trade Commission antitrust enforcers across the Biden and Trump administrations agree that employers’ pervasive use of unlawful restrictions on labor mobility are causing harm to workers, competitio... (more story)

TD Bank failed to identify role of insiders in Colombia ATM laundering scheme January 29, 2026 | Samuel Rubenfeld

A money laundering network that moved $39 million via withdrawals from automated teller machines in Colombia persisted for years at TD Bank in part because the lender didn’t identify the role its employees pla... (more story)