Money Laundering: Further Updates to Guidance

Changes to Guidance issued by Joint Money Laundering Steering Group
FX Global Code

This new Code is relevant to all FX market participants, whether buy-side or sell-side, regardless of ‘product’, including E-Trading Platforms (page 4 provides a guide to the types of entities to which the Code will be relevant – ranging from the treasury operations of family offices to hedge funds and “financial institutions”).
PRIIPs: Final FCA Rules

Reminder of upcoming PRIIPs implementation
EMIR Review

FCA issues EMIR update alert
FCA Review: Suitability

The FCA seems happy with the outcome of a review of suitability it undertook last year which captured 1,142 individual pieces of advice given by 656 firms.