On 2 July 2026 the Payments Vision Delivery Committee published an update on roles and responsibilities in the future retail payments ecosystem. The FCA and PSR published same-day statements directing stakeholders to it, while HM Treasury published the update on GOV.UK. It reads like a background note. It is closer to a pricing document. The…
SS2/21 is the PRA’s supervisory statement on outsourcing and third-party risk management. Its main scope covers UK banks, building societies and PRA-designated investment firms; insurance and reinsurance firms and groups in scope of Solvency II, including Lloyd’s and managing agents; and UK branches of overseas banks and insurers. It has been the working reference for…
The Bank of England published Statistical Notice 2026/06 on 30 June 2026, setting out updated definitions for Form PL, its Profit and Loss statistical return. The changes apply from the first-quarter 2027 reporting period, first submitted in May 2027, which gives UK statistical reporters a fixed window to remap their definitions before that return falls…
The pipes that move most of your domestic sterling payments are about to be redesigned, and the window to influence that design closes on 11 September 2026. In June 2026 the Retail Payments Infrastructure Board, an industry advisory board chaired by the Bank of England, opened a consultation on the design of the future UK…
Get the UK Money Market Fund reform wrong, and the mistake shows up in two places at once: the weekly liquid asset buffer your fund holds, and the answer you give your supervisor when asked why it sits there. In a statement published on 8 June 2026, the FCA set out updated proposals under which…