New regulations and challenges in the EU and UK: What are advisers' next moves?

Regulatory simplification vs expanding oversight

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Regulators are increasingly focused on whether institutions can evidence effective decision-making, risk management and positive outcomes for customers, writes Bernadine Reese

European financial institutions are in a complex and rapidly shifting regulatory landscape of competing forces — a push for simplification and competitiveness, the expansion of supervisory oversight, and increasing fragmentation between global regulatory standards. These dynamic forces, along with increasing geopolitical uncertainty, are reshaping the regulatory agenda for European financial institutions, requiring firms to manage the disruption not as a series of discrete initiatives, but as an integrated and continuous strategic challenge. Regulatory simplification vs expanding over...

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