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Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 17 April 2025
Competition and Regulatory Newsletter: European Commission and CMA issue fines in end-of-life vehicles recycling cartel settlements On 1 April 2025, the European Commission announced that it had fined multiple car manufacturers and a trade association around €458 million for participating in a 15-year long cartel concerning end-of-life vehicle recycling. On the same day, the UK...
BLOG: A New Age Dawns for Consumer Protection in the UK The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) came into force on 6 April 2025, overhauling the UK’s consumer protection regime.  The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) has heralded this as a “step-change in more direct,...
The Lens Newsletter - April 2025 A selection of our latest blogs on all things digital from our experts and thought leaders here at Slaughter and May.
Digital Transformation: The impact of Operational Resilience on Digital Service Providers
BLOG: EU Agrees Sustainability Omnibus ‘Stop-the-Clock’ Directive and Consultation Launched on the European Sustainability Reporting Standards Today, the European Council formally adopted the “stop-the-clock” Directive. This follows on from the European Parliament voting overwhelmingly to approve the proposal on 3 April 2025, with 531 votes for, 69 against and 17 abstentions. The Directive can...
Employment Rates and Limits 2025 Compensation limits (including unfair dismissal); statutory payments; income tax and National Insurance rates; National Minimum Wage; amounts recoverable from the National Insurance Fund.
Employment Bulletin - April 2025 Topics covered in this bulletin: Employment Rights Bill: latest developments, New Employment Rates and Limits, Dismissal for failure to disclose previous misconduct dismissal on application form was reasonable, Consultation on mandatory ethnicity and...
Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 10 April 2025
Insurance update: the PRA’s proposed Matching Adjustment Investment Accelerator and latest publications from the FCA
A new age dawns for consumer protection in the UK The Digital Markets, Competition and Consumers Act 2024 (DMCC Act) came into force on 6 April 2025, overhauling the UK’s consumer protection regime.  The CMA has heralded this as a “step-change in more direct, impactful consumer protection” as, for...
Future regulation of alternative fund managers: towards a more proportionate regime The UK’s asset management sector has been a core part of the City’s success; second only in size to the United States, it is able to draw from deep pools not only of capital but of talent. Alternative investment fund managers (“AIFMs”) have a prominent...
Transition Technologies: What's Next for UK Hydrogen Production?
BLOG: The CMA issues informal guidance on environmental cooperation in the UK construction industry under ‘open door’ policy On 28 March 2025, the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) published its latest piece of informal guidance under its 'open door' policy on sustainability agreements (BMF Guidance). Addressed to the Builders Merchants Federation (BMF), the guidance...
BLOG: Timeline of ESG Developments in 2025 - Q2 Update The first quarter of 2025 has seen a flurry of developments in the world of ESG, from the UK government’s recent updated guidance for entities producing modern slavery statements as required by the Modern Slavery Act 2015 to the publication of the EU’s...