This page draws together UK credit crunch related material from a
number of different public sources, including HM Treasury, the UK
Financial Services Authority and the Icelandic Financial
Supervisory Authority, as well as Ashurst client updates. It is a
collection of regularly updated materials that we hope you find
useful - however, please note that it does not generally cover
events outside the UK unless we have identified a direct impact on
the UK.
For convenience, the information on this page has been grouped
under the following main headings:
- General
- Banks
- Building societies
- Events outside the UK
General
Ashurst client materials
Competition
Corporate
Employment
Financial institutions
Infrastructure
Lehman
Litigation
Regulatory
Restructuring and special situations
Short selling
Securities and structured finance
Acts and draft legislation
UK
Financial services
Iceland
Statutory instruments
General
Bradford & Bingley
Dunfermline
Landsbanki
Heritable
ING
Kaupthing
Northern Rock
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- Explanatory
memorandum (Transfer Order)
Financial Services Authority (FSA) materials
Announcements
- FSA
Discussion Paper 10/4 - The prudential regime for trading
activities: a fundamental review - August 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper CP2010/19 - Revising the Remuneration Code -
July 2010
- FSA press release: FSA statement on the publication of CEBS stress
tests - 23/07/10
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/17 - Strengthening Capital Standards 3 -
feedback to CP09/29, final rules for CRD2, and further consultation
- July 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/18 - Implementing aspects of the Financial
Services Act 2010 - feedback on CP10/11, final rules and further
consultation - July 2010
- FSA Feedback Statement 10/2 - Summary of
feedback to the Turner Review Conference Discussion Paper
(DP09/4) - 01/07/2010
- FSA Discussion Paper 10/3 - Enhancing the
auditor's contribution to prudential regulation -
29/06/2010
- FSA press release: FSA Chairman welcomes Chancellor's plans for
regulatory reform - 16/06/2010
- FSA's markets regulatory agenda - May 2010
- FSA statement on Goldman Sachs International -
20/04/2010
- FSA statement - Royal Assent for Financial
Services Act 2010 - April 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/9 - Enhancing the Client Assets Sourcebook -
March 2010
- FSA Business Plan - 2010/11
- FSA statement to the US bankruptcy court
examiner on the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings inc. -
12/03/2010
- FSA Financial Risk Outlook 2010 - 10 March 2010
- FSA Report - Assessing possible sources of
systemic risk from hedge funds - February 2010
- FSA Consultation Paper 10/3 - Effective corporate
governance (significant influence controlled functions and the
Walker review) - January 2010
- Joint FSA & HMT Paper - Reforming OTC
Derivative Markets - A UK perspective - December 2009
- FSA press release - FSA strengthens stress
testing regime - 11/12/2009
- FSA
Consultation Paper 2009/29 - Strengthening Capital Standards 3 -
December 2009
- FSA Feedback Statement 09/5 - Reforming
Remuneration Practices in Financial Services - December
2009
- FSA press release: FSA appoints senior
advisors on governance and authorisation - 26/11/2009
- FSA statment re: Walker Review - 26/11/2009
- FSA Handbook notice 94 - 06/11/2009
- FSA Consultation Paper 2009/27 - Review of the Credit
Unions Sourcebook
- FSA Consultation Paper 2009/26 - Regulatory fees and
levies: policy proposals for 2010/11 - 11/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/19 - Review of the prudential
rules for Personal Investment Firms (PIFs) - 01/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/18 - Financial Services
Compensation Scheme reform Single customer view - verification -
01/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/17 - Close links - feedback on
CP07/21 - 01/11/2009
- FSA
Handbook development No 116 - October 2009
- FSA press release: FSA begins new banking regulation to promote
fairness for consumers - 28/10/2009
- FSA press release: FSA takes action to help investors with
Lehman-backed structured products - 27/10/2009
- Lehman-backed structured products - update - 26
October 2006
- FSA discussion paper 2009/5 - Enhancing
financial reporting disclosures by UK credit institutions -
26/10/2009
- Turner
review conference discussion paper. A regulatory response to the
global banking crisis: systemically important banks and assessing
the cumulative impact. Discussion paper 2009/4 - October 2009
- Senior
Supervisors Group. Risk Management Lessons from the Global Banking
Crisis of 2008 - 21/10/2009
- Senior
Supervisors Group: Self-Assessment Template - A Supplement to Risk
Management Lessons from the Global Banking Crisis of 2008 -
21/10/2009
- FSA press release: FSA sets out major reforms for the mortgage
market - 19/10/2009
- Impact
of the proposed AIFM Directive across Europe. Report prepared by
Charles River Associates for the FSA - October 2009
- Strengthening liquidity standards including feedback on
CP08/22, CP09/13, CP09/14. Policy statement 2009/16
- FSA
- A regulatory response to the global banking crisis - Feedback on
the Turner Review DP09/2. Feedback statement 2009/3
- FSA -
Bank regulation, capital and credit supply: Measuring the impact of
Prudential Standards, FSA Occasional paper series 36 -
21/09/2009
- FSA press release: FSA and SEC discuss approaches to
global regulatory requirements - 16/09/2009
- FSA press release: Lehmans-backed structured products -
11/09/2009
- Letter from FSA to Financial Ombudsman Service re:
Lehmans-backed structured products - 11/09/2009
- FSA press release: FSA provides clarity for activist shareholders -
19/08/20009
- FSA statement - Wider Implications referral: Lehmans-backed
structured products - update - 14 August 2009
- FSA
Policy Statement 09/15 - Reforming remuneration practices in
financial services. Feedback on CP09/10 and final rules - August
2009
- FSA
publication - Financial Services and Compensation Scheme -
29/07/09
- FSA
Banking and compensation reform. Including feedback on CP2008/23,
CP2009/3, CP2009/11 and CP2009/16. Policy statement 2009/11 - July
2009
- FSA announces final stage of operational reforms with new
integrated operating structure - 02/07/09
- FSA press release - Lord Turner appointed chair of FSB's Standing
Committee for Supervisory and Regulatory Co-operation -
29/06/09
- The FSA's annual report 2008-2009 - 24/06/2009
- FSA statement on profit participating deferred shares -
12/06/2009
- FSA
CP2009/14 - Strengthening liquidity standards 3 - Liquidity
transitional measures
- FSA
CP2009/14 - Newsletter on Strengthening liquidity standards 3 -
Liquidity transitional measures
- FSA
Handbook development 111
- FSA
Handbook notice 88
- FSA statement on its use of bank stress tests
- FSA report:
Initial assessment of the impact of recent changes on the
Regulation of Retail Investment Products
- FSA
briefing on its analysis of its own proportionality in respect of
compliance cost surveys
- FSA chief executive speech - "The regulators role in judging
competence", 08/05/2009
- Financial
Services Compensation Scheme: Review of limits - Feedback on
CP2008/15 and made rules for non-deposit limits - 24/04/2009
- FSA
response to Dr Vince Cable MP in respect of the FSA's regulation of
the building society sector - 17/04/2009
- FSA
response to Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP on Dunfermline -
17/04/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/13 - Strengthening
liquidity standards 2: Liquidity reporting - 15/04/2009
- FSA
Consultation Paper 2009/13 - Strengthening liquidity standards 2:
Liquidity reporting - 15/04/2009FSA
newsletter summarising quarterly consultation (no. 20) 2009/12 -
03/02/2009
- FSA quarterly
consultation (no. 20) 2009/12 - 03/02/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/11 - FSCS -
Temporary high deposit balances and implementing changes to the
Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive - 31/03/2009
- FSA
Consultation paper 2009/11 - FSCS - Temporary high deposit balances
and implementing changes to the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive
- 31/03/2009
- Change to
Compensation sourcebook: Compensation Sourcebook (Protected Deposit
Transfers under the Special Resolution Regime) Instrument 2009 -
28/03/2009
- FSA -
Letter to Compliance Officers re: Arranging adequate protection of
clients' assets and money - 20/03/2009
- FSA -
Letter to Trade Associations on Individual Capital Guidance (ICG)
and the financial resources rule (GENPRU 1.2.26R) - 20/03/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/10 - Reforming
remuneration practices in financial services - 20/03/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2009/10 - Reforming remuneration practices in
financial services - 20/03/2009
- FSA
Occasional Paper Series 31 - On the Behaviour and Determinants of
Risk-Based Capital Ratios: Revisiting the Evidence from UK Banking
Institutions - A report for the Financial Services Authority -
20/03/2009
- FSA
Occasional Paper Series 31 - On the Behaviour and Determinants of
Risk-Based Capital Ratios: Revisiting the Evidence from UK Banking
Institutions - A report for the Financial Services Authority -
20/03/2009
- The
Turner Review - A regulatory response to the global crisis -
18/03/2009
- FSA
discussion paper - A regulatory response to the global banking
crisis - 18/03/2009
- FSA
Supervisory Notice about Straumu-Burdaras Investment Bank hf. -
09/03/2009
- CFTC and FSA welcome IOSCO proposals to boost regulation of
commodity futures markets -05/03/2009
- Detailed FSA statement on the capital implications of the
Government Asset Protection Scheme - 26/02/2009
- FSA code of practice on remuneration policies
- FSA statement on the capital implications of the Government Asset
Protection Scheme - 26/02/2009
- FSA Statement re: Sir James Crosby's resignation - 11/02/2009
- FSA Statement re: HBOS- 11/02/2009
- FSA
Statement - Rights issue subscription periods. Feedback on CP09/4
and final rules - 10/02/2009
- FSA publishes Financial Risk Outlook - 09/02/2009
- Letter
on behalf of the FSA and FSCS to the Association of Foreign
Bankers, the British Bankers' Association, the Building Societies
Association, to five credit union representative bodies, and to the
Council of Mortgage Lenders - 04/02/2009
- FSA chairman sets out agenda for reforming financial regulation -
21/01/2009
- FSA Statement - Mutual societies mergers: FSA move allows separate
deposit protection limits - 21/01/2009
- Compensation
Sourcebook (Building Society and Other Mutual Society Mergers)
Instrument 2009
- FSA Statement on regulatory approach to bank capital
- 19/01/2009
- Letter on behalf of FSA and FSCS - FSCS levies for
deposit-taker defaults: implications for firms - 30/12/2008
- FSA
Consumer research paper 75 - Consumer awareness of the Financial
Services Compensation Scheme - 08/01/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2009/3 - Financial services compensation scheme
reform. Fast payout for depositors and raising consumer awareness -
07/01/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2008/24 Stress and scenario testing -
09/12/2008
- FSA
consultation paper 2008/23 - Financial stability and depositor
protection: FSA responsibilities - 08/12/2008
- FSA UK
country report - the fourth quantitive impact study (QIS4) for
Solvency II - 08/12/2008
- Financial
Services Authority consultation paper 2008/22 - Strengthening
liquidity standards - 04/12/2008
- FSA Statement - London Scottish Bank plc - 01/12/2008
- FSA Supervisory
Notice about London Scottish Bank plc - 30/11/2008
- FSA
letter - the responsibilities of firms which are mortgage lenders
or administrators - 27/11/2008
- FSA Press release - FSA move allows seperate deposit protection
limits - 27/11/2008
- FSA Statement on Capital Approach Utilised in UK Bank
Recapitalisation Package - 14/11/2008
- FSA Supervisory
Notice about Landsbanki Islands hf - 30/10/2008
- FSA Remuneration policies statement -
13/10/2008
- FSA update on Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in
Administration's outstanding settlement transactions -
08/10/2008
- Joint FSA/EUI announcement: Lehman Brothers
International (Europe) in Administration - 08/10/2008
- FSA press release - Derbyshire and Nationwide
Building Societies merger confirmation hearing - 08/10/2008
- FSA communication about Bradford and Bingley
29/09/2008
- FSA statement - bank merger statement about
HBOS - 18/09/2008
- FSA statement - FSA is satisfied that HBOS is a
well capitalised bank that continues to fund its business in a
satisfactory way - 17/09/2008
- FSA statement - Lehman Brothers Holding Inc
announced that it intends to file a petition under Chapter 11
of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code - 15/09/2008
- FSA document
- The triggering of FSCS following the failure of Kaupthing and
Heritable to meet their regulatory requirements
-
-
Financial Services Authority (FSA) materials
Announcements
- FSA
Discussion Paper 10/4 - The prudential regime for trading
activities: a fundamental review - August 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper CP2010/19 - Revising the Remuneration Code -
July 2010
- FSA press release: FSA statement on the publication of CEBS stress
tests - 23/07/10
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/17 - Strengthening Capital Standards 3 -
feedback to CP09/29, final rules for CRD2, and further consultation
- July 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/18 - Implementing aspects of the Financial
Services Act 2010 - feedback on CP10/11, final rules and further
consultation - July 2010
- FSA Feedback Statement 10/2 - Summary of
feedback to the Turner Review Conference Discussion Paper
(DP09/4) - 01/07/2010
- FSA Discussion Paper 10/3 - Enhancing the
auditor's contribution to prudential regulation -
29/06/2010
- FSA press release: FSA Chairman welcomes Chancellor's plans for
regulatory reform - 16/06/2010
- FSA's markets regulatory agenda - May 2010
- FSA statement on Goldman Sachs International -
20/04/2010
- FSA statement - Royal Assent for Financial
Services Act 2010 - April 2010
- FSA
Consultation Paper 10/9 - Enhancing the Client Assets Sourcebook -
March 2010
- FSA Business Plan - 2010/11
- FSA statement to the US bankruptcy court
examiner on the collapse of Lehman Brothers Holdings inc. -
12/03/2010
- FSA Financial Risk Outlook 2010 - 10 March 2010
- FSA Report - Assessing possible sources of
systemic risk from hedge funds - February 2010
- FSA Consultation Paper 10/3 - Effective corporate
governance (significant influence controlled functions and the
Walker review) - January 2010
- Joint FSA & HMT Paper - Reforming OTC
Derivative Markets - A UK perspective - December 2009
- FSA press release - FSA strengthens stress
testing regime - 11/12/2009
- FSA
Consultation Paper 2009/29 - Strengthening Capital Standards 3 -
December 2009
- FSA Feedback Statement 09/5 - Reforming
Remuneration Practices in Financial Services - December
2009
- FSA press release: FSA appoints senior
advisors on governance and authorisation - 26/11/2009
- FSA statment re: Walker Review - 26/11/2009
- FSA Handbook notice 94 - 06/11/2009
- FSA Consultation Paper 2009/27 - Review of the Credit
Unions Sourcebook
- FSA Consultation Paper 2009/26 - Regulatory fees and
levies: policy proposals for 2010/11 - 11/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/19 - Review of the prudential
rules for Personal Investment Firms (PIFs) - 01/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/18 - Financial Services
Compensation Scheme reform Single customer view - verification -
01/11/2009
- FSA Policy Statement 09/17 - Close links - feedback on
CP07/21 - 01/11/2009
- FSA
Handbook development No 116 - October 2009
- FSA press release: FSA begins new banking regulation to promote
fairness for consumers - 28/10/2009
- FSA press release: FSA takes action to help investors with
Lehman-backed structured products - 27/10/2009
- Lehman-backed structured products - update - 26
October 2006
- FSA discussion paper 2009/5 - Enhancing
financial reporting disclosures by UK credit institutions -
26/10/2009
- Turner
review conference discussion paper. A regulatory response to the
global banking crisis: systemically important banks and assessing
the cumulative impact. Discussion paper 2009/4 - October 2009
- Senior
Supervisors Group. Risk Management Lessons from the Global Banking
Crisis of 2008 - 21/10/2009
- Senior
Supervisors Group: Self-Assessment Template - A Supplement to Risk
Management Lessons from the Global Banking Crisis of 2008 -
21/10/2009
- FSA press release: FSA sets out major reforms for the mortgage
market - 19/10/2009
- Impact
of the proposed AIFM Directive across Europe. Report prepared by
Charles River Associates for the FSA - October 2009
- Strengthening liquidity standards including feedback on
CP08/22, CP09/13, CP09/14. Policy statement 2009/16
- FSA
- A regulatory response to the global banking crisis - Feedback on
the Turner Review DP09/2. Feedback statement 2009/3
- FSA -
Bank regulation, capital and credit supply: Measuring the impact of
Prudential Standards, FSA Occasional paper series 36 -
21/09/2009
- FSA press release: FSA and SEC discuss approaches to
global regulatory requirements - 16/09/2009
- FSA press release: Lehmans-backed structured products -
11/09/2009
- Letter from FSA to Financial Ombudsman Service re:
Lehmans-backed structured products - 11/09/2009
- FSA press release: FSA provides clarity for activist shareholders -
19/08/20009
- FSA statement - Wider Implications referral: Lehmans-backed
structured products - update - 14 August 2009
- FSA
Policy Statement 09/15 - Reforming remuneration practices in
financial services. Feedback on CP09/10 and final rules - August
2009
- FSA
publication - Financial Services and Compensation Scheme -
29/07/09
- FSA
Banking and compensation reform. Including feedback on CP2008/23,
CP2009/3, CP2009/11 and CP2009/16. Policy statement 2009/11 - July
2009
- FSA announces final stage of operational reforms with new
integrated operating structure - 02/07/09
- FSA press release - Lord Turner appointed chair of FSB's Standing
Committee for Supervisory and Regulatory Co-operation -
29/06/09
- The FSA's annual report 2008-2009 - 24/06/2009
- FSA statement on profit participating deferred shares -
12/06/2009
- FSA
CP2009/14 - Strengthening liquidity standards 3 - Liquidity
transitional measures
- FSA
CP2009/14 - Newsletter on Strengthening liquidity standards 3 -
Liquidity transitional measures
- FSA
Handbook development 111
- FSA
Handbook notice 88
- FSA statement on its use of bank stress tests
- FSA report:
Initial assessment of the impact of recent changes on the
Regulation of Retail Investment Products
- FSA
briefing on its analysis of its own proportionality in respect of
compliance cost surveys
- FSA chief executive speech - "The regulators role in judging
competence", 08/05/2009
- Financial
Services Compensation Scheme: Review of limits - Feedback on
CP2008/15 and made rules for non-deposit limits - 24/04/2009
- FSA
response to Dr Vince Cable MP in respect of the FSA's regulation of
the building society sector - 17/04/2009
- FSA
response to Rt Hon Alistair Darling MP on Dunfermline -
17/04/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/13 - Strengthening
liquidity standards 2: Liquidity reporting - 15/04/2009
- FSA
Consultation Paper 2009/13 - Strengthening liquidity standards 2:
Liquidity reporting - 15/04/2009FSA
newsletter summarising quarterly consultation (no. 20) 2009/12 -
03/02/2009
- FSA quarterly
consultation (no. 20) 2009/12 - 03/02/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/11 - FSCS -
Temporary high deposit balances and implementing changes to the
Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive - 31/03/2009
- FSA
Consultation paper 2009/11 - FSCS - Temporary high deposit balances
and implementing changes to the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive
- 31/03/2009
- Change to
Compensation sourcebook: Compensation Sourcebook (Protected Deposit
Transfers under the Special Resolution Regime) Instrument 2009 -
28/03/2009
- FSA -
Letter to Compliance Officers re: Arranging adequate protection of
clients' assets and money - 20/03/2009
- FSA -
Letter to Trade Associations on Individual Capital Guidance (ICG)
and the financial resources rule (GENPRU 1.2.26R) - 20/03/2009
- FSA
newsletter summarising consultation paper 2009/10 - Reforming
remuneration practices in financial services - 20/03/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2009/10 - Reforming remuneration practices in
financial services - 20/03/2009
- FSA
Occasional Paper Series 31 - On the Behaviour and Determinants of
Risk-Based Capital Ratios: Revisiting the Evidence from UK Banking
Institutions - A report for the Financial Services Authority -
20/03/2009
- FSA
Occasional Paper Series 31 - On the Behaviour and Determinants of
Risk-Based Capital Ratios: Revisiting the Evidence from UK Banking
Institutions - A report for the Financial Services Authority -
20/03/2009
- The
Turner Review - A regulatory response to the global crisis -
18/03/2009
- FSA
discussion paper - A regulatory response to the global banking
crisis - 18/03/2009
- FSA
Supervisory Notice about Straumu-Burdaras Investment Bank hf. -
09/03/2009
- CFTC and FSA welcome IOSCO proposals to boost regulation of
commodity futures markets -05/03/2009
- Detailed FSA statement on the capital implications of the
Government Asset Protection Scheme - 26/02/2009
- FSA code of practice on remuneration policies
- FSA statement on the capital implications of the Government Asset
Protection Scheme - 26/02/2009
- FSA Statement re: Sir James Crosby's resignation - 11/02/2009
- FSA Statement re: HBOS- 11/02/2009
- FSA
Statement - Rights issue subscription periods. Feedback on CP09/4
and final rules - 10/02/2009
- FSA publishes Financial Risk Outlook - 09/02/2009
- Letter
on behalf of the FSA and FSCS to the Association of Foreign
Bankers, the British Bankers' Association, the Building Societies
Association, to five credit union representative bodies, and to the
Council of Mortgage Lenders - 04/02/2009
- FSA chairman sets out agenda for reforming financial regulation -
21/01/2009
- FSA Statement - Mutual societies mergers: FSA move allows separate
deposit protection limits - 21/01/2009
- Compensation
Sourcebook (Building Society and Other Mutual Society Mergers)
Instrument 2009
- FSA Statement on regulatory approach to bank capital
- 19/01/2009
- Letter on behalf of FSA and FSCS - FSCS levies for
deposit-taker defaults: implications for firms - 30/12/2008
- FSA
Consumer research paper 75 - Consumer awareness of the Financial
Services Compensation Scheme - 08/01/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2009/3 - Financial services compensation scheme
reform. Fast payout for depositors and raising consumer awareness -
07/01/2009
- FSA
consultation paper 2008/24 Stress and scenario testing -
09/12/2008
- FSA
consultation paper 2008/23 - Financial stability and depositor
protection: FSA responsibilities - 08/12/2008
- FSA UK
country report - the fourth quantitive impact study (QIS4) for
Solvency II - 08/12/2008
- Financial
Services Authority consultation paper 2008/22 - Strengthening
liquidity standards - 04/12/2008
- FSA Statement - London Scottish Bank plc - 01/12/2008
- FSA Supervisory
Notice about London Scottish Bank plc - 30/11/2008
- FSA
letter - the responsibilities of firms which are mortgage lenders
or administrators - 27/11/2008
- FSA Press release - FSA move allows seperate deposit protection
limits - 27/11/2008
- FSA Statement on Capital Approach Utilised in UK Bank
Recapitalisation Package - 14/11/2008
- FSA Supervisory
Notice about Landsbanki Islands hf - 30/10/2008
- FSA Remuneration policies statement -
13/10/2008
- FSA update on Lehman Brothers International (Europe) in
Administration's outstanding settlement transactions -
08/10/2008
- Joint FSA/EUI announcement: Lehman Brothers
International (Europe) in Administration - 08/10/2008
- FSA press release - Derbyshire and Nationwide
Building Societies merger confirmation hearing - 08/10/2008
- FSA communication about Bradford and Bingley
29/09/2008
- FSA statement - bank merger statement about
HBOS - 18/09/2008
- FSA statement - FSA is satisfied that HBOS is a
well capitalised bank that continues to fund its business in a
satisfactory way - 17/09/2008
- FSA statement - Lehman Brothers Holding Inc
announced that it intends to file a petition under Chapter 11
of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code - 15/09/2008
- FSA document
- The triggering of FSCS following the failure of Kaupthing and
Heritable to meet their regulatory requirements
Speeches
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments Conference:
Do regulators have a role to play in judging culture and
ethics? - 17/06/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. European
Association of Banking and Financial History, Brussels:
Something old and something new: Novel and familiar drivers and
the latest crisis - 21/05/2010
- Speech by Ken Hogg, Director, Insurance Sector,
FSA. Future of Life Assurance IEA Conference: Key priorities in
regulation - outlining the FSA's strategy - 19/05/2010
- Speech by Jon Pain, Managing Director,
Supervision, FSA. City and Financial Intensive Supervision
Conference: FSA's approach to intensive supervision -
18/05/2010
- Speech by Graeme Ashley-Fenn, Director,
Permissions, Decisions and Reporting, FSA. Investment
Management Association: Effective corporate governance -
22/04/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA.
Institute for New Economic Thinking, Inaugural Conference,
Cambridge: Economics, conventional wisdom and public policy -
09/04/2010
- Speech by Sally Dewar, Managing Director, Risk,
FSA. City Corporate Governance and Remuneration Summit - Taking
the FSA's corporate governance agenda forward - 30/03/2010
- Speech by Dan Waters, Director of Conduct Risk
and Asset Management Sector Leader, FSA. The Future of the Fund
Management Industry: An FSA Perspective - 24/03/2010
- Speech by Jon Pain, Managing Director,
Supervision, FSA. Insurance Sector Conference: Our Approach to
Insurance Supervision - 18/03/2010
- Speech by Ken Hogg, Director, Insurance Sector,
FSA: What are the key risks facing the insurance sector?
Insurance Sector Conference - 18/03/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. CASS
Business School: What do banks do, what should they do and what
public policies are needed to ensure best results for the real
economy? - 17/02/2010
- Accompanying slides for the speech by Adair Turner,
Chairman, FSA. CASS Business School: What do banks do, what should
they do and what public policies are needed to ensure best results
for the real economy? - 17/02/2010
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
Annual Lubbock Lecture in Management Studies: UK Financial
Regulation: After the Crisis - 12/03/2010
- Speech by Graeme Ashley-Fenn, Director,
Permissions, Decisions and Reporting, FSA. Building Societies
Association corporate governance seminar: Corporate governance
- an FSA perspective - 03/03/2010
- Opening comments by Adair Turner, Chairman,
FSA. Treasury Select Committee Hearing: Too big to fail -
02/03/2010
- Speech by Peter Smith, Head of Investments
Policy, Conduct Policy Division, FSA. European Life Settlement
Association, London: FSA sets out concerns about Traded Life
Policy Investments - 24/02/2010
- Speech by Sally Dewar, Managing Director, Risk,
FSA. FSA Euromoney Bond Investors Congress, The Brewery,
London: Regulatory challenges and developments in the Bond
Markets - 24/02/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. 14th
Chintaman Deshmukh Memorial Lecture: After the crisis:
assessing the costs and benefits of financial liberalisation -
15/02/2010
- Speech by Dan Waters, Director of Conduct Risk
and Asset Management Sector Leader, FSA. Asset management
regulatory trends and priorities in the post-crisis
environment: an update from the FSA - 25/01/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The
Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales
(ICAEW): Banks are different: should accounting reflect that
fact? - 21/01/2010
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. British
Embassy, Paris: Responding to the financial crisis: challenging
past assumptions - 30/11/2009
- Speech by Jon Pain, Managing Director, Retail
Markets, FSA. Council of Mortgage Lenders' Mortgage Industry
Conference and Exhibition: How the regulator views the mortgage
market - 13/11/2009
- Speech by Lesley Titcomb, Director of Small
Firms and Contact Centre, FSA. Mortgage Business Expo: FSA
Mortgage Market Review - what it means for intermediaries -
11/11/2009
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
Bloomberg: Intensive Supervision: delivering the best outcomes
- 09/11/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. Turner Review Conference:
progress towards global regulatory reform - 02/11/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The Economic Club of America
and National Journal Group - 29/10/2009
- Speech by Sally Dewar, FSA Managing Director.
Risk, Liquidity Conference - 09/10/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The City
of London Corporation's Annual Reception for the City Office -
6/10/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The City Banquet, The
Mansion House, London - 22/09/09
- Speech by Sally Dewar, Managing Director of Wholesale Markets, FSA.
FSA Asset Management Sector conference - 17/09/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA's Annual public meeting
speech - 23 July 2009
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA's Annual public
meeting speech - 23 July 2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. FSA's
Financial Capability conference in Cambridge: Helping consumers
through the recession: Rebuilding consumer trust in financial
services - 15/07/09
- Speech by Lesley Titcomb, Director of Small
Firms and Contact Centre, FSA. Council of Mortgage Lenders: The
regulatory environment affecting the mortgage world -
06/07/2009
- Speech by Jon Pain, Managing Director, Retail
Markets, FSA. Association of Finance Brokers: Mortgage market
review and regulation of secured lending - 01/07/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. British
Bankers' Association annual conference: Address to the British
Bankers' Association Annual International Banking Conference
2009 - 30/06/2009
- Speech by Verena Ross, Director of Strategy and
Risk, FSA. Chartered Financial Analysts Annual Conference:
Efficient markets and market Regulation - 18/06/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. Central
Party School, Beijing: Regulating financial markets to secure
economic stability - 16/06/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. Address
to the ABI 2009 Conference - 09/06/2009
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
Association of Corporate Treasurers: The challenges facing bank
regulation - 14/05/2009
- Speech by Dan Waters, Director of Retail Policy
& Conduct Risk, FSA. FSA Mortgage Conference: Mortgage
distribution - What are the right outcomes for consumers and
how do we achieve them? - 12/05/2009
- Speech by Jon Pain, Managing Director Retail
Markets, FSA. FSA Mortgage Conference: The way forward -
12/05/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The FSA
Mortgage Conference: The mortgage market: Issues for debate -
12/05/2009
- Speech by Sally Dewar, Managing Director,
Wholesale, FSA. Annual Financial Crime Conference: Tackling
financial crime in the current economic climate -
27/04/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. Global
Financial Forum, New York: Building a more stable global
banking system - 27/04/2009
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
NAPF Investment Conference 2009: The Crisis: the role of
investors - 11/04/2009
- Speech by Thomas F. Huertas, Director, Banking
Sector, FSA. ICFR Inaugural Summit, London: The Outlook for
Banking and Banking Regulation - 1/04/2009
- Speech by David Strachan, Director, Financial
Stability, FSA. ICFR Inaugural Summit, London: The Regulatory
Response fo the G20 to the Financial Crisis - 01/04/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The
Turner Review Conference - 27/03/2009
- Speech by Dan Waters, FSA Asset Management
Sector Leader, FSA. Future of Fund Management Conference:
Regulatory Challenges for Fund Managers - 24/03/2009
- Speech by Verena Ross, Director of Strategy and
Risk, FSA. Chatham House conference on Global Financial
Regulation: Lessons from the Financial Crisis - 24/03/2009
- Speech by Hector Sants, Chief Executive, FSA.
The Reuters Newsmakers event: Delivering intensive supervision
and credible deterrence - 12/03/2009
- Speech by Dan Waters, Asset Management Sector
Leader, FSA. 6th Annual Structured Retail Products Conference:
Industry response to developments in regulation of structured
products - 12/02/2009
- Speech by Adair Turner, Chairman, FSA. The
Economist's Inaugural City Lecture: The financial crisis and
the future of financial regulation - 21/01/2009
- Speech by Thomas Huertas, Director, Banking
Sector, FSA. London Financial Regulation Seminar: The rationale
for and limits of bank supervision - 19/01/2009
- Speech by Thomas Huertas, Director, Banking
Sector, FSA. 12th Annual BBA Banking Supervision Conference:
The Supervision of Financial Services: What's next? -
28/10/2008
Short selling
Bank of England materials
Announcements
Speeches
- Speech by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England at the Lord
Mayor's Banquet for Bankers and Merchants of the City of London at
the Mansion House - 16/06/2010
- Speech by Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for
Financial Stability, Bank of England - The $100 Billion Question -
30/03/2010
- Speech by Paul Tucker chair the Financial
Stability Board's Working Group on Cross-Border Crisis
Management: Resolution of Large and Complex Financial
Institutions: The Big Issues - 19/03/2010
- Speech by Andrew Sentance (Member of the
Monetary Policy Committee) to the British Chambers of Commerce
Annual Convention in London on - Prospects for Global Economic
Recovery - 18/03/2010
- Speech by Charles Bean, Deputy Governor for
Monetary Policy at the Bank of England - The UK Economy after
the Crisis: Monetary policy when it is not so NICE -
16/03/2010
- Accompanying slides for the speech by Charles
Bean, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the Bank of
England - The UK Economy after the Crisis: Monetary policy when
it is not so NICE - 16/03/2010
- Fair Value in Foul Weather, Remarks by Andrew
Haldane (Executive Director of Financial Stability, Bank of
England) based on a previous speech to the Royal Institution of
Chartered Surveyors in November 2009 - March 2010
- Speech by Kate Barker, Member of the Monetary
Policy Committee, Bank of England - Monetary Policy - from
Stability to Financial Crisis and Back? - 08/03/2010
- Speech by David Miles - Interpreting Monetary
Policy - 25/02/2010
- Speech by Paul Fisher, Executive Director Markets
Bank of England - The Corporate Sector and the Bank of England's
Asset Purchases - 18/02/2010
- Speech by Andrew Haldane, Executive Director for
Financial Stability, Bank of England - The Debt Hangover -
27/01/2010
- Speech by Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor for
Financial Stability, Bank of England - Shadow Banking, Capital
Markets and Financial Stability - 21/01/2010
- Speech by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of
England, to the University of Exeter Business Leaders' Forum -
19/01/2010
- Speech by David Miles - The Future Financial
Landscape - 16/12/2009
- Speech by Andrew Bailey, Executive Director for
Banking Services and Chief Cashier, Bank of England - The UK
Bank resolution regime - 26/11/2009
- Speech by Paul Fisher, Executive Director
Markets, Bank of England - The Bank of England's Balance Sheet:
Monetary Policy and Liquidity Provision during the Financial
Crisis - 19/11/2009
- Speech by Andrew Bailey, Executive Director for Banking Services
and Chief Cashier, Bank of England - Recovery and Resolution Plans
- 17/11/09
- Speech by Andrew Sentance, Member of the Monetary Policy Committee,
Bank of England - Prospects for the British Economy after the
Financial Storm - 16/11/2009
- Speech by Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor for
Financial Stability, Bank of England - The Crisis Management
Menu - 16/11/09
- Speech by Adam Porsen, Member Monetary Policy Committee at the Bank
of England - Getting Credit Flowing: A Non-Monetarist Approach to
Quantitative Easing - 26/10/2009
- Speech by Paul Tucker, Deputy Governor,
Financial Stability, Bank of England, at Barclays Annual
Lecture, London - 22/10/09
- Speech by Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of
England to Scottish business organisations, Edinburgh -
20/10/2009
- Speech by Charles Bean, Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy at the
Bank of England - Quantitative Easing: An Interim Report - speech
to the London Society of Chartered Accountants - 12/10/09
- Speech by David Miles, Money, Banks and Quantitative Easing -
30/09/2009
- Speech
by Andrew Haldane - Credit is Trust - 14/09/2009
- Speech by Tim Besley, member of the Monetary Policy Committee, Bank
of England - Panel on the Macro-Economy and Quantitative Easing -
02/07/09
- Regimes for Handling Bank Failures: Redrawing the Banking Social
Contract - Speech by Paul Tucker at the British Bankers'
Association's Annual International Conference - 30/06/09
- Speech by Spencer Dale - Inflation Targeting: Learning the lessons
from the financial crisis - 23/06/09
- Speech by the Governor of the Bank of England - 17/06/09
- Bank of England: Speech by Paul Tucker - The State of the Markets:
Four Issues - 09/06/09
- Speech by Paul Tucker whilst at the Bank of Japan 2009 Conference -
Financial System and Monetary Policy - 27-28/05/2009
- Speech by Paul Tucker - The Repetoire of Official Sector
Interventions in the Financial System: Last Resort Lending,
Market-Making, and Capital - 28/05/2009
- Speech by Paul Tucker - The Repetoire of Official Sector
Interventions in the Financial System: Last Resort Lending,
Market-Making, and Capital - 28/05/2009
- Speech by Charles Bean, Deputy Governor for Monetary
Policy at the Bank of England on 21 May 2009
- Speech by Nigel Jenkinson: Containing System-Wide
Liquidity Risks: Some Issues and Challenges - 15/05/2009
- Speech by Nigel Jenkins - Law of economics and money
and finance in times of financial crisis - 15/05/2009
- News Release: Containing SysContaining System-Wide
Liquidity Risks: Some Issues and Challenges' Speech by Nigel
Jenkinson - 15/05/2009
- Bank of England - Remarks by Andrew Haldane made at the Federal
Reserve Bank of Chicago 45th Annual Conference - 08/05/09
- News Release: Seven Lessons From The Last Three Years -
Speech By John Gieve - 19/02/2009
Icelandic FinaSpecial Liquidity Scheme
Icelandic Financial Supervisory Authority (FME) materials
Announcements
Short selling
Icelandic Financial Services Association
Announcements
London Stock Exchange materials
Notices
HM Treasury materials
Announcements
Speeches
- Speech by
The Rt Hon George Osborne MP, Chancellor of the Exchequer at The
Lord Mayor's Dinner for Bankers & Merchants of the City of
London at Mansion House - 17/06/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury at the Social Market Foundation
breakfast - Government support for small business & the
wider economy - 30/03/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury at ICGN Conference on Corporate Governance -
25/03/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury at the Smith Institute - 08/03/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury at the British Chambers of Commerce &
the HK Association of Banks - Reforming Financial Markets: A UK
perspective - 05/03/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM
Treasury - NAPF Corporate Governance Seminar, Cheapside, London -
09/02/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - AFME Market Liquidity Conference -
03/02/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - London Stock Exchange Corporate Bond
Launch - 01/02/2010
- Speech by the Financial Services Secretary, HM
Treasury - Launch of the BSA Governance Report - 21/01/2010
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury to Thomson Reuters launch of consultation on
Investment Bank Resolution - Establishing resolution arrangements
for investment banks - 16/12/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - LSE Corporate Governance Seminar -
01/12/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - Hermes and City of London Corporation
Responsible Asset Management Conference - 24/11/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - All Party Parliamentary Group on Corporate
Governance - 09/11/2009
- Speech by
Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM Treasury - Worshipful
Company of International Bankers Dinner - 21/10/09
- Speech by
Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM Treasury - Chatham
House Global Financial Regulation Conference - 15/10/09
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - EUROFI Financial Forum 2009 -
30/09/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM
Treasury - Developing a new financial architecture: lessons learned
from the crisis, at the Financial Times Global Finance Forum -
18/09/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services
Secretary, HM Treasury - Financial Services Authority's Asset
Management Conference - 17/09/2009
- Speech by
Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM Treasury - British
Bankers' Association Annual Conference - 30/06/09
- Speech by Alistair Darling, Chancellor of the Exchequer at
Mansion House - 17/06/2009
- Speech by Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM
Treasury - the Association of Foreign Banks - 11/06/2009
- Speech by
Lord Myners, Financial Services Secretary, HM Treasury -
Association of Investment Companies - 21/04/2009
Chancellor's statements
Reforming Financial Markets
The Banking Act and Building Societies
Treasury Committee
Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) materials
Announcements
EU Commission
Other Government materials
Miscellaneous materials
- CRC
Credit Fund Ltd & Ors -v- GLG Investments Plc (Sub-Fund:
European Equity Fund) & Ors [2010] EWCA Civ 917 -
02/08/2010
- FRC announces
project on Lessons from Credit Crisis and Formation of Advisory
Group - 30/07/2010
- UK Financial Investments Ltd - Annual Report and Accounts 2009/10 -
26/07/2010
- CEBS - 2010
EU-wide stress testing
- The Future of Banking Commission
- Financial
Markets Law Committee - Issue 144: Investment Banking Insolvency
Panel Proposals - Reponse to the December 2009 HM Treasury
Consultation Document on establishing effective resolution
arrangements for investment banks - March 2010
- Speech by Peter Freeman QC, Competition
Commission Chairman. St Gallen International Competition Forum:
Too big to fail, but not too big to be unbundled -
20/05/2010
- BBA - Newsletter "Next steps for banking" -
Impact assessments and systemically important firms - February
2010
- BBA response to the Turner Review Conference
discussion paper - 05/02/2010
- Restoring loyalty, trust and industry
profitability. The role of smarter banking. IBM Global Business
Services white paper - 05/02/2010
- UKFI
Shareholder Relationship Framework Document - January 2010
- UKFI
Investment Mandate - January 2010
- FRC - 2009 Review of the Combined Code: Final
Report - December 2009
- FRC - Consultation on the revised UK Corporate
Governance Code - December 2009
- Competition Commission speech by Peter Freeman
- David Hume Institute - "We are here in a very melancholy
situation" - Financial crisis and competition policy -
3/11/2009
- Financial Reporting Council - Challenges for users of actuarial
information arising from current market conditions, 2009 update -
November 2009
- Financial Reporting Council - Challenges for audit committees
arising from current economic conditions - November 2009
- UKFI
Investment Mandate - October 2009
- Trade repositories in the European Union. Consultation
paper Committee of European Securities Regulators - 29/09/2009
- OFT - Financial services plan - 29/07/09
- Report of the Financial Crisis Advisory Group - 28/07/09
- Financial Reporting Council - Review of the effectiveness of The
Combined Code. Progress report and second consultation -
28/07/09
- Ministry of Finance, Reykjavik - press release regarding
background information on Nordic loans to Iceland - 06/07/09
- UK Financial Investments Limited (UKFI) - UKFI Strategy for Market
Investments and Annual Report and Accounts 2008-2009 - 30/06/09
- BBA Annual International Banking Conference - Tackling challenges,
facing the future, embracing change - 30/06/09
- HMRC - A Code of Practice on Taxation for Banks - Consultation
Document - 29/06/09
- ABI response to the Turner Review. A regulatory response to the
global banking crisis - June 2009CESR Report -
Recommendations for securities settlement systems and
recommendations for central counterparties in the European Union -
01/06/09
- Regulatory
Myopia - A response to Financial Services Authority DP09/2 by Tim
Ambler & Keith Boyfield - Adam Smith Institute
- ICSA Report:
Boardroom Behaviours: A report prepared for Sir David Walker
08/06/09
- MiFID complex and
non-complex financial instruments for the purposes of the
Directive's appropriateness requirements - A Committee of European
Securities Regulators consultation paper
- Financial
Markets Law Committee - Issue 133 Banking reform depositor
protection - Letter from Lord Woolf to Banking Reform Team, HM
Treasury - 28/04/2009
- PIRC press
release - PIRC sets out reform agenda - no return to 'business as
usual' - 27/04/2009
- PIRC -
Beyond the crisis: PIRC's manifesto for corporate governance and
capital market reform - 27/04/2009
- CESR's
response to IASB's request for views on proposed FASB amendments on
fair value measurement and proposed FASB amendments to impairment
requirements for certain investments in debt and equity securities
- 22/04/2009
- CESR - 3L3
Joint Contribution to the European Commission's consultation on the
improvement of supervision for the financial services sector -
10/04/2009 IMF summary of World Economic Outlook report - Crisis and Recovery
- 22/04/2009
- IMF
World Economic Outlook report - Crisis and Recovery -
22/04/2009
- IMF
summary of Global Financial Stability Report - Responding to the
Financial Crisis and Measuring Systematic Risks
- IMF
Global Financial Stability Report - Responding to the Financial
Crisis and Measuring Systematic Risks
- IMF summary of report - Global Recession to be Long, Deep with Slow
Recovery - 16/04/2009
- IMF
report - Global Recession to be Long, Deep with Slow Recovery -
16/04/2009
- OFT
- Financial Services Strategy - A consultation document -
07/04/2009
- Committee of
European Securities Regulators - European Central Bank - Draft
recommendations for central counterparties 1-2, 4-18, 14 and 15
revised for CCPs clearing OTC derivatives - 31/03/2009
- Audit Commission report - Risk and return - English local
authorities and the Icelandic banks - 26/03/2009
- OECD -
Public Online Consultation on Corporate Governance and the
Financial Crisis - 24/03/2009
- European Corporate Governance Forum - Statement of the European
Corporate Governance Forum on Director Remuneration -
23/03/2009
- Association of British Insurers (ABI) - Regulation and Markets for
the 21st Century - 16/03/2009
- Why banks failed the stress test - The basis for a speech by Andrew
Haldane, Executive Director for Financial Stability, given at the
Marcus-Evans Conference on Stress-Testing - 13/02/2009
- IMF Report: Iceland: Stand-By Arrangement - Interim
Review Under the Emergency Financing Mechanism - 12/02/2009
- Iceland:
Financial System Stability Assessment-Update - 09/12/2008
- Iceland:
2008 Article IV Consultation-Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public
Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement
by the Executive Director for Iceland - 09/12/2008
- Speech given by Charles Bean (Deputy Governor for Monetary Policy,
Bank of England) "Some Lessons for Monetary Policy from the Recent
Financial Turmoil" - 22/11/2008
- Speech given by Sir John Gieve (Deputy Governor, Bank of England)
"Learning from the Financial Crisis" - 19/11/2008
- ASB PN 332 -
amendments to FRS 26 and FRS 29 - 24/10/2008
- IASB October Update 2008 - amendments to IAS 39 and IFRS 7 -
24/10/2008
- IMF announcement regarding staff level agreement with Iceland on
loan - 24/10/2008
- International Monetary Fund Report on the economic crisis in Europe
- October 2008
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