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Jul 30, 2024 | lexology.com | Robert Adam |Nick Bryans |Adam B. Farlow |George Marshall |Megan Schellinger |James Thompson

In briefThe FCA has published a consultation paper (CP24/12) with proposed rules for companies seeking to admit securities to a UK regulated market or 'primary' multilateral trading facility (MTF). The FCA's aims are to reduce the costs of listing on UK markets, make capital raising easier on UK listed markets and remove barriers to retail participation.

Feb 11, 2024 | globalcompliancenews.com | Robert Adam |Nick Bryans |Joanna Hewitt |George Marshall

In briefThe FRC has this week published the revised version of the UK Corporate Governance Code (UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 (frc.org.uk)). As flagged in its policy update statement in November (Statement: FRC policy update), the revised Code makes much more limited changes than those proposed in the FRC’s initial consultation paper from May (UK Corporate Governance Code consultation document (frc.org.uk)).

Jan 23, 2024 | lexology.com | Robert Adam |Nick Bryans |Joanna Hewitt |George Marshall |James Thompson

In briefThe FRC has this week published the revised version of the UK Corporate Governance Code (UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 (frc.org.uk)). As flagged in its policy update statement in November (Statement: FRC policy update), the revised Code makes much more limited changes than those proposed in the FRC's initial consultation paper from May (UK Corporate Governance Code consultation document (frc.org.uk)).

Jan 8, 2024 | globalcompliancenews.com | Robert Adam |Nick Bryans |Adam B. Farlow |George Marshall

The FCA has published a consultation paper (CP23/31) setting out detailed proposals for the major listing rules reforms that it proposed in May this year (see CP23/10 and our Client alert on this). It describes the reforms as “the most far-reaching reforms of the UK’s listing regime in three decades” and the paper attaches in a chunky appendix the draft text of many of the proposed new listing rules (the first of two tranches).

Jun 2, 2023 | globalcompliancenews.com | Robert Adam |Nick Bryans |Helen Bradley |Adam Eastell

In briefThe FRC has published a consultation paper (UK Corporate Governance Code consultation document) proposing changes to the UK Corporate Governance Code. The changes are partly in response to the Government’s May 2022 response white paper Restoring trust in audit and corporate governance: government response and, unlike the wide-ranging changes in 2018, are technical rather than structural.