Navigating regulation in 2021

The final Brexit negotiations are going down to the wire and the pressing question for financial services businesses is simple – ‘What rules do I follow?’ Emma Radmore outlines what the regulators have been doing and what firms should be attending to now.

Emma Radmore(legal director) is a member of Womble Bond Dickinson’s financial services team in London. Contact her onemma.radmore@wbd-uk.com.

Finally, the transition period will end on 31 December 2020, and, at the time of writing, negotiations between the United Kingdom and European Union give no indication that they will be anything other than standard ‘third countries’ to each other from 2021 – albeit third countries with very similar legislation.