A Practitioner's Guide to the UK Financial Services Rulebooks, 8th Edition

A Practitioner’s Guide to the UK Financial Services Rulebooks is the leading guide and commentary on the Handbook of the Financial Conduct Authority and the Rulebook of the Prudential Regulation Authority.

Fully revised, the 8th edition covers all significant regulatory developments and how they affect your day-to-day operations. Since the last edition, financial services regulation has become even more complex and multi-layered, and this book provides valuable summaries and signposts key content in the Handbook and Rulebook. This comprehensive new edition has been reorganised and there is now a new chapter on Insurance, Mortgage and Banking Conduct of Business, a chapter dealing with both Market Abuse and Financial Crime, and a separate chapter on Product Governance and Intervention.

Closely following the structure of the handbooks for ease of use and written by a team of leading practitioners, this indispensable book is the definitive guide and commentary on the financial services rulebooks.

• Explains how conduct of business, prudential regulation, authorisation, enforcement and consumer issues are dealt with in the rulebooks
• Includes chapters covering specialist sourcebooks, the Consumer Credit Sourcebook (CONC) and Collective Investment Schemes (COLL)
• Expert guidance and commentary from some of the foremost financial services legal practitioners in the UK

New to this edition:

• This new edition reflects the continued divergence of the FCA and PRA, such as the PRA’s development of its own distinct approach to enforcement
• Includes new content on the introduction of consumer duty for new and existing products and services by the FCA
• New content on the phased implementation of the package of operational resilience requirements
• More detail on the individual accountability regime – the Senior Managers and Certification Regime

   

  Coverage of rules and guidance in the context of post-Brexit changes to UK legislation