From the Derivatives Practice Group: This week, the CFTC issued no-action relief to designated contract markets seeking to convert their existing perpetual style broad-based security index futures contracts into true broad-based security index perpetual futures.
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UK Announces Crackdown on Non-Compete Clauses and Long Notice Periods
If implemented, the proposals would upend the status quo – significantly limiting employers’ ability to stop departing employees from joining or setting up a competitor, and potentially capping the notice periods employers can require.
Speaking at the Innovation Nation Summit
Discrimination in prison medication dispensing – objective justification and an unjustified failure to think about it
The UK Human Rights Blog is moving to Substack.
From 19th October, all new articles will be published exclusively on our Substack, and no new content will appear on our current website.
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Upcoming: Presenting International Evidence in Support of Better Systems for Ageing Well
I am looking forward to rejoining my friends and making new friends in Ottawa for the 40th Anniversary of the Ottawa Charter for Health Promotion, Equity and Rights. In 1986, Canada hosted an international conference on “health promotion” in Ottawa
New briefing – Scale requirements for DC pensions arrangements: what do we know so far
From 2030, master trusts and group personal pensions will generally need a main scale default arrangement holding at least £25 billion in assets under management to continue receiving automatic enrolment contributions. Our briefing explains how the new scale requirements are
Podcast | Global Regulation Tomorrow Plus: Crypto under the FCA – Special edition – Authorisation
Our podcast mini-series on ‘Crypto under the FCA’ examines the FCA’s highly anticipated policy statements published on June 30, 2026, which collectively shape the new regulatory regime for cryptoassets in the United Kingdom. In this episode we unpack the authorisation process
UK: Update on Farley v Paymaster UKSC 2025/0185
SC hearing 7-8 October 2026
This week, the UK Supreme Court heard argument in Farley v Paymaster on whether a claim for non-material damage under Article 82 of the GDPR must meet a threshold of seriousness before compensation can be
What NAT5 Live 2026 means for private clients, private capital and the UK tax treatment of nature
Back in Mexico City, a city whose scale I sometimes forget, I attended the close of NAT5 Live 2026 at the invitation of Antonio Navalón. For families with capital in the United Kingdom and land or interests in Latin
Trafficking referrals increase while government targets ‘misuse’
The latest trafficking statistics for the year ending June 2026 show referrals to the National Referral Mechanism are at their highest since the record began, and the backlog of cases awaiting a conclusive grounds decision has increased for the first
FCA blog on how strong compliance functions can support trusted corporate finance markets
On 8 October 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a blog on how strong compliance functions can support trusted corporate finance markets, this follows on from a survey the FCA had conducted, which it considers found encouraging practice across