Understand the rules behind the financial services you offer

Licensing, customer treatment, financial crime, and resilience all depend on the activity your business performs. Investigate the relevant rules and build a clearer basis for decisions across banking, payments, investment, and insurance.

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Financial regulation across business lines

  • European Union: DORA
  • United States: Bank Secrecy Act
  • United Kingdom: FCA Consumer Duty
  • Singapore: Payment Services Act
  • Hong Kong: Securities and Futures Ordinance
  • Japan: Financial Instruments and Exchange Act
  • Switzerland: Financial services law
  • Australia: Banking Act
  • Canada: Bank Act
  • China: Commercial Bank Law
  • India: Banking Regulation Act
  • South Korea: Banking Act
  • Taiwan: Banking Act
  • Mexico: Credit Institutions Law
  • United Arab Emirates: Financial institutions law
  • Indonesia: Financial-sector law
  • Brazil: Banking law
  • Vietnam: Law on Credit Institutions
  • Saudi Arabia: Anti-Money Laundering Law
  • European Union: MiFID II
  • United States: OFAC sanctions
  • European Union: MiCA
  • European Union: PSD2
  • European Union: Solvency II
  • European Union: Capital Requirements Regulation
  • European Union: Capital Requirements Directive
  • United Kingdom: Money Laundering Regulations
  • European Union: Anti-Money Laundering Regulation (AMLR)
  • European Union: EMIR
  • European Union: AIFMD
  • European Union: UCITS
  • United States: Securities Exchange Act
  • United States: Securities Act of 1933
  • United States: Commodity Exchange Act
  • United States: Sarbanesโ€“Oxley Act (SOX)
  • United States: Investment Advisers Act
  • United States: Investment Company Act
  • United States: Regulation Z: consumer credit
  • United States: Regulation E: fund transfers
  • European Union: Transfer of Funds Regulation
  • European Union: Market Abuse Regulation
  • European Union: Insurance Distribution Directive
  • Japan: Insurance Business Act
  • Singapore: Insurance Act
  • European Union: SFDR
  • Singapore: MAS technology risk guidance
  • United States: Grammโ€“Leachโ€“Bliley Act (GLBA)
  • Hong Kong: Banking Ordinance
  • United Kingdom: Payment Services Regulations
  • European Union: GDPR
  • United States: FCPA
  • United Kingdom: Bribery Act

Put the financial activity at the center of the analysis

Define the transaction, customer, and regulated activity

A bank, fund manager, insurer, or fintech can face different obligations for the same transaction. Research the activity, customer type, legal entity, and market before comparing regulatory approaches.

Read supervisory expectations alongside the underlying law

Explore conduct, prudential, financial-crime, and operational requirements with source references. Distinguish legislation and supervisory guidance from the policies your business chooses to implement.

Turn your research into a brief for decision makers

Turn a regulatory question into a downloadable brief with supporting references. Set out the implications, dependencies, and unresolved points for risk, legal, and business review.

Research obligations across the financial services business

Banking & lending

Trace lending obligations from authorization to customer servicing

Investigate licensing, prudential obligations, credit disclosures, and customer treatment. Frame the question around the lender, borrower, product, and activity, including the federal or state level where relevant.

Fintech & payments

Explain who holds and moves money in a payment model

Research payment-service permissions, safeguarding, electronic money, and financial-crime controls. Explain who receives, holds, transfers, and returns funds to make a complex payment model easier to assess.

Asset management

Separate a fund's requirements from its manager's duties

Separate product requirements from manager obligations. Explore authorization, investor disclosures, distribution, delegation, and reporting for the fund structure and investor group you have in mind.

Capital markets

Investigate the rules before an instrument reaches investors

Examine offering, trading, intermediary, and market-conduct requirements. Build a source-referenced research note around the instrument, venue, participants, and transaction instead of relying on a broad market label.

Digital assets

Clarify how a digital asset or service is classified

Compare the regulatory questions raised by issuance, custody, exchange, and payment use. Investigate licensing, disclosures, and transfer information without treating every token or service as the same activity.

Insurance

Follow insurer and intermediary responsibilities through the policy lifecycle

Research insurer and intermediary duties from product design and distribution to claims. Bring solvency, customer disclosures, outsourcing, and complaint handling into the same business discussion.

Investigate the rules behind your next financial service

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