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The Case for Change The First REMA Consultation articulated why reform is needed and flagged the principal hurdles the future power system will face as it moves towards a renewables‑led mix. Those hurdles comprise: securing higher levels of investment, boosting system flexibility, sending clearer locational signals, preserving operability, and controlling price volatility. DESNZ determined that current market arrangements cannot realise its aims for a cost‑effective, decarbonised and secure electricity system by 2035, nor adequately deliver the government’s 2050 net zero ambitions. Following the First REMA Consultation, DESNZ produced an Options Assessment, setting out the REMA policy development pathway used to shortlist policy choices. At present, the options prioritise maintaining a unified wholesale market, catalysing additional investment in renewable generation, improving the capacity market framework, and bringing in zonal pricing. DESNZ’s challenge‑led method seeks to substantially narrow the remaining reform choices for electricity markets, while accepting that the subsequent stage must develop a whole‑system solution that coherently integrates investment, flexibility, locational signals, operability and pricing across the system architecture...

Periodic tenancies: what’s changing under the Renters’ Rights Act The Act will make the Assured Periodic Tenancy (APT) the default form of residential letting, so agreements continue indefinitely rather than ending after fixed terms. Crucially, the Act’s measures will cover both existing and future arrangements, so all current residential tenancies will be converted into assured tenancies. The current law on SDLT SDLT is charged on the chargeable consideration for interests in land. When you purchase a house, SDLT is paid on the price you pay; when you rent, it is charged on the rent. Calculating SDLT on rent is complex and depends on the lease’s Net Present Value (NPV). Currently, many residential tenancies in England do not attract SDLT because the first £125,000 of NPV is taxed at 0%. SDLT only applies at 1% to the portion of NPV above £125,000. Fixed vs periodic leases Historically, the £125,000 NPV threshold meant SDLT applied to relatively few residential tenancies, reflecting how the value of a lease...

This Practice Note sets out the present landscape for biodiversity offsetting together with mandatory and voluntary nature markets. It covers what biodiversity offsetting entails, the defining features of nature markets, drivers for participants, market rules, the ‘stacking’ of multiple nature benefits, and the anticipated future direction of biodiversity offsets and nature markets. Overview What is biodiversity offsetting? Biodiversity offsetting is the means by which organisations carry out or finance environmentally restorative initiatives to balance out the harm they cause, whether directly or indirectly, to biodiversity through their operations and across their value chains. Biodiversity offsetting under planning laws Safeguarding, improving and ‘offsetting’ biodiversity effects has been entwined with the English planning system since before 2006, when the former Planning Policy Statement 9 (now incorporated into the National Planning Policy Framework) encouraged planning authorities to explore ways of maintaining, restoring or adding to networks of natural habitats and other landscape features. That guidance evolved into obligations on developers to offset their biodiversity impacts in the 2012...

Internal rate of return (IRR) Internal rate of return (IRR) is the benchmark financial metric set by the British Private Equity & Venture Capital Association (BVCA) for judging private equity outcomes and making comparisons across investments. IRR seeks to identify the break-even rate for an investment while recognising the time value of money, and is typically described as the discount rate that, when applied to a sequence of projected cashflows from a specific investment, results in the net present value of anticipated cash inflows (eg investments or loans to an investee company) being equal to the net present value of anticipated cash outflows (eg dividends or interest from the investee company or exit proceeds)... The formula 0 = P0 + P1/(1+IRR) + P2/(1+IRR)^2 + P3/(1+IRR)^3 + ... + Pn/(1+IRR)^n, where P0, P1, ... Pn represent the cashflows in periods 1, 2, ... n, respectively...

Banking & Finance glossary A Auditing and Accounting Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI) The foremost Islamic, international, autonomous, independent, not-for-profit corporate body that develops and issues accounting, auditing, governance, ethics and Shari’ah benchmarks and standards for Islamic Financial Institutions (IFIs) and the wider Islamic finance sector. Founded in Bahrain in 1991, it is backed by a number of institutional members across more than 45 countries, including central banks and regulatory authorities, financial institutions, accounting and auditing practices, and legal firms. Its pronouncements are currently applied by leading Islamic financial institutions across the world and have advanced a progressive and gradual harmonisation of global Islamic finance practice. It also delivers professional qualification programmes—notably Certified Islamic Professional Accountant (CIPA), Certified Shari’ah Adviser and Auditor (CSAA), and the corporate compliance programme—in efforts to strengthen the industry’s human capital and governance frameworks. For further details, see Practice Note: Key participants in the Islamic finance industry—Accounting and Auditing Organisation for Islamic Financial Institutions (AAOIFI). Acceleration Acceleration is the formal action...