In November 2025, the European Commission published its legislative proposal to update the EU Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (dubbed "SFDR 2.0"), which was preceded a week before by a ...
Alternative Insights Summit 2026: In London last week, Travers Smith's clients and friends convened to discuss the key issues of the day in the private markets. Increasing access to private market ...
Geopolitical pressures, technological disruption and shifting energy markets are reshaping what it means to transition to a more sustainable economy. This edition examines how three sectors, energy, ...
The Code took effect from 7 April 2026. It was the result of a public consultation in April and May 2022, with over 30 participants across the property industry. The Code's introduction now contains a ...
We recently saw two of the largest DeFi exploits of 2026 within just 18 days: the approximately US$285 million breach of the Drift Protocol on Solana on 1 April [1] and the approximately US$292 ...
On 21 April 2026, the Council of the European Union gave final approval to a new Directive on combating corruption (the "Directive"). This is a significant move to harmonise the current patchwork of ...
Under the new EMIR/UK EMIR reporting rules and the latest set of amendments to EMIR (“EMIR 3.0”), greater focus is placed on reporting and reporting errors. Download our EMIR/UK EMIR Regulatory ...
The UK Government published its response to the separate (but aligned) consultations on changing inflation indexation in the Renewables Obligation ("RO") and Feed-in Tariff ("FiT") schemes on 28 ...
Any follower of British politics knows that every Budget Day arrives with a swirl of promises, pressures, and speculation. But Autumn Budget 2025 has felt especially turbulent, landing after months of ...
The UK government has recently introduced the Cyber Security and Resilience (Network and Information Systems) Bill to Parliament, with the objective of strengthening the UK’s defences against cyber ...
Observers of, and aspiring participants in, the UK stablecoin market have needed deep wells of patience. In case this has slipped readers' minds, His Majesty's Treasury (HMT) has not actually yet laid ...
The New Towns Taskforce (the "NTT") recently issued its much-anticipated independent report to government on the sites which it proposes for designation as new towns. In this briefing we explore its ...