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One Rulebook to Bind Them? The FCA & Bank of England’s Boldest Move Yet.

The May 2026 Regulatory Initiatives Grid dropped this week, revealing a major shift: the FCA and Bank of England are forming a joint taskforce to harmonise UK MiFIR, UK EMIR, and UK SFTR into a single reporting estate.

This is not just admin housekeeping. Regulators are moving away from treating these regimes as separate EU inheritances. If you have ever tried to reconcile a repo trade across SFTR and MiFIR, you know how critical and challenging this alignment will be.

What Is Changing?

- Unified Architecture: A streamlined framework to cut duplication. Standardising UTIs/LEIs is the easy part; field-level alignment and lifecycle modelling will be the real test.

- FCA Handbook Migration: MiFIR requirements are moving into the FCA Handbook by H2 2026. This allows faster updates without primary legislation, accelerating divergence from ESMA.

- EMIR Overhaul: Permanent intragroup exemptions and a new Bank rulebook for CCPs by Q4 2026 mean the pieces are moving fast.

The Point Nine Take

The future of UK compliance is a single, unified architecture with three operating regimes sitting on top. If your firm is still relying on tactical, regime-specific reporting stacks, it’s time to ask: Is your infrastructure built to survive the next 5 years?

At Point Nine, we will be tracking the taskforce ahead of its Q3 kickoff. Stay tuned for our deep-dive analysis.

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