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What does ACT mean? In corporate and banking practice, ACT usually refers to the Association of Corporate Treasurers, the UK-based professional body for corporate treasury professionals, rather than a statutory “Act”. It is not defined in legislation or case law; the acronym is market terminology used in transaction documents and governance materials. The Association of Corporate Treasurers promotes professional standards in liquidity management, funding, cash and risk management, foreign exchange and derivatives. It publishes guidance and a code of ethics and awards recognised qualifications (including AMCT and FCT). In legal contexts, references to “ACT-qualified” personnel or to ACT good practice may appear in treasury policies,...

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UK regime for Regulatory Information Services (RIS) and Primary Information Providers (PIPs): FCA approval, DTR 8 duties, supervision and issuer disclosure requirements

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This Practice Note examines the regulatory information services regime through which an issuer (whose transferable securities are admitted to trading on a UK regulated market) must make regulated information public. It focuses on the functions of the regulatory information service (RIS) and primary information provider (PIP), and outlines the principal continuing obligations, together with the approval process and supervisory framework for a PIP.

What is regulated information?

Regulated information covers all information that an issuer, or any other person who has sought admission of financial instruments to trading on a regulated market without the issuer’s agreement, is required to disclose under:

  • the Disclosure Guidance and Transparency Rules (DTR);
  • articles 17 to 19 of Assimilated Regulation (EU) 596/2014 (UK Market Abuse Regulation);
  • the UK Listing Rules (UKLR).

This includes inside information, financial results and disclosures of trading in shares. Such information must be released in a manner that enables dissemination to the widest possible public, and as close to simultaneously as possible in the UK.

Why appoint a RIS?

Under the DTR, an issuer has an obligation to release regulated information to...

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Danette Antao
Danette Antao

Danette is a senior knowledge lawyer in the corporate finance practice in Hogan Lovells' London office. She has a particular focus on legal and regulatory developments concerning the UK's equity capital markets....

Maegen Morrison
Maegen Morrison

Maegen is a partner in Hogan Lovells' London office specialising in equity capital markets, corporate finance and domestic and cross-border mergers and acquisitions, principally in the consumer and financial institutions sector. Maegen heads the London equity capital markets practice, co-heads the European equity capital markets practice and has a depth of experience in acting for both issuers and underwriters. Maegen was one of The Lawyer's 10 City Young Guns, appeared in The Lawyer's Hot 100, was one of the 2013 Legal Business Corporate Great Bright Hopes, was one of the 2014 Financial News 40 under 40 Rising Stars in Legal Services and is recognised by the Legal 500 UK 2013 as "very solid and technically excellent". ...

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