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2 weeks ago | 
jdsupra.com | Jonathan Benson |Justin Lau |Simon Toms
[co-author: Uswah Naseem]On 3 April 2025, the European Parliament overwhelmingly voted to delay the implementation of the EU Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D). The approval of the European Parliament, which followed the endorsement of the European Council on 26 March 2025, effectively stops the clock on, and delays, the implementation of a significant number of CSRD and CS3D obligations.
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1 month ago | 
lexology.com | Simon Toms |Jonathan Benson |Mary S. Bonsu |Justin Lau |Olivia Moul
On 26 February 2025, the European Commission (the EC) adopted a new package of proposals aimed at simplifying the EU’s ESG reporting and compliance requirements. The EC published two separate proposals for directives to make changes to the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the Corporate Sustainability Due Diligence Directive (CS3D) and the EU Taxonomy Regulation.
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Jan 13, 2025 | 
jdsupra.com | Simon Toms
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Dec 23, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Simon Toms
[co-author: Cyrus Yazdanpanah]As part of the UK government’s drive to develop legislation for a UK regulatory regime to govern the cryptoassets sector, on 16 December 2024 the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Discussion Paper DP24/4, which relates to (i) future market abuse and (ii) admissions and disclosures (A&D) regimes for cryptoassets.
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Dec 4, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sebastian Barling |Wilf Odgers |Simon Toms
[co-author: Martin Katunar]In her first comments since the July 2024 UK general election, Economic Secretary to the UK Treasury Tulip Siddiq MP delivered a speech at the Tokenisation Summit on 21 November 2024 that outlined the recently elected UK government’s approach to digital asset regulation.
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Nov 18, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Jonathan Benson |Justin Lau |Simon Toms
[co-authors: Frank Lech and Mary Bonsu]A new initiative to consolidate various European Union environmental, social and governance (ESG) reporting obligations into a single regulation aims to simplify the regulatory landscape and enhance the EU’s competitiveness.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sebastian Barling |Anxin Hua |Simon Toms
In the UK, 14 million people used “buy now, pay later” (BNPL) at least once in the six months leading up to January 2023. Frequent users were more than four times as likely as other consumers to have missed a payment on a bill or credit card. UK regulators have been increasingly concerned about the potential risks the BNPL model poses to consumers, and in particular vulnerable consumers.
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Sep 16, 2024 | 
lexology.com | Sebastian Barling |Simon Toms |Joseph Kamyar |Frances Burchall
On 11 September 2024, the UK government introduced the Property (Digital Assets etc) Bill, which provides that digital assets can be considered to be personal property under the laws of England and Wales, and could therefore be afforded the same legal protections as other, traditional categories of personal property. Digital assets include cryptocurrencies, non-fungible tokens (NFTs) and carbon credits. The bill itself is very brief.
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Sep 9, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Sebastian Barling |Joseph Kamyar |Simon Toms
As the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) consider feedback to their consultation on guidance regarding the UK change-in-controller regime (consultation paper 25/23), we provide a refresher on how the current rules apply to fintech investors, changes on the horizon and what that may mean for fintech investment terms.
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Sep 6, 2024 | 
jdsupra.com | Raquel Fox |Justin Lau |Simon Toms
[co-author: Martin Katunar]Key Points As the deadlines approach for multinationals to make their first disclosures under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), the EU’s new sustainability reporting law, they are confronting the significant time and resources required to gather and analyze the required information, and to determine what is material enough that it must be disclosed.
