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Quoted Company Newsletter Q3 2026
Welcome to the most recent edition of our UK quoted company newsletter, the aim of which is to collate and highlight relevant legal, regulatory, and topical developments that we have written about primarily in the third quarter of 2026. The UK Government published its long-awaited consultation on modernizing the UK’s corporate reporting framework, including non-financial narrative reporting.
Quoted Company Newsletter Q3 2026
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Quoted Company Newsletter Q3 2026
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Quoted Company Newsletter Q3 2026
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FCA Publishes Rules And Draft Guidance On Aligning Listed Issuer Sustainability Disclosures With International Standards
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published rules requiring listed issuers to make climate and sustainability disclosures against the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) on a 'comply or explain' basis. The new rules replace existing climate-related financial disclosures and apply to accounting periods starting on or after 1 January 2027, with first reporting in 2028. Most of the requirements are those consulted on earlier this year.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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UK reporting consultation kicks sustainability can down the road
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Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 87
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Ashurst Perkins Coie Governance & Compliance Update – Issue 86
[co-authors: Shan Shori, Becky Clissmann, Marianna Kennedy] The UK Government has published its long-awaited consultation on modernising the UK’s corporate reporting framework, including non-financial narrative reporting.
Climate Tipping Points And Managing Risk Through Non-linear Change
September 1, 2026 Will Chalk, Becky Clissmann, Christopher Eberhardt, Elena Lambros, Eleanor Reeves Ashurst Perkins Coie + Follow x Following x Following - Unfollow Contact To embed, copy and paste the code into your website or blog: Climate tipping points are those moments where the temperature rises caused by increasing GHG emissions cause an irreversible change within a part of the climate system. Please see full publication below for more information.
Ashurst Perkins Coie Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 85
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EU Adopts Simplified ESRS And Sustainability Reporting Standard For Voluntary Use
[co-authors: Becky Clissmann, Giovanna Ventura] On 3 July 2026, the European Commission adopted two delegated regulations, which are now subject to European Parliament and Council scrutiny. The first delegated regulation and accompanying annexes revise Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/2772, which introduced the European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS) for undertakings that remain within scope of mandatory sustainability reporting after Omnibus I.
Governance & Compliance Update – Issue 84
The Financial Reporting Council has published a 'mythbuster' on auditors' responsibilities in relation to Provision 29 of the UK Corporate Governance Code 2024 as well as three revised UK auditing standards which seek to make auditors' reports shorter, clearer and more useful.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update – Issue 82
The Financial Conduct Authority has Primary Market Bulletin, Issue 62 in which it sets out, among other things, key aspects of its enforcement action against Carillion plc and its former directors.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update – Issue 81
The Department for Business and Trade has published a response to its consultation on measures to tackle the late payment of invoices. For detail on the consultation, see AGC Update, Issue 70 - Item 5. The measures to be taken forward are set out below.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update – Issue 80
The Financial Reporting Council has published updated guidance on 'comply or explain' reporting, which is designed to help investors, proxy advisors and other users of corporate reporting better understand and appreciate the value of companies that choose to depart from provisions of the UK Corporate Governance Code.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 79
The FRC has published its amendments to FRS 102, which is the Financial Reporting Standard applicable in the UK and Republic of Ireland. By way of reminder, FRS 102 requires all entities to follow the presentation requirements for the balance sheet and the profit and loss account set out in UK company law or Republic of Ireland company law as applicable.
Government endorses ISSB sustainability reporting standards to create UK SRS
The UK Government has published the UK Sustainability Reporting Standards (UK SRS) and a response to its June 2025 consultation on the exposure drafts of the UK SRS. The UK SRS are the UK endorsed versions of the International Sustainability Standards Board (ISSB) sustainability reporting standards. Minimal amendments have been made to S1 and S2 to make them relevant in a UK context.
UK issuers face a higher sustainability reporting bar
How to sell sustainability to the board: make it about resilience and competitiveness Despite the backlash, companies still value sustainability skills, says the head of education at the Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 78
The Financial Reporting Council has published an updated edition of its guidance to assist companies meeting their disclosure obligations in their strategic report. The guidance is intended to support reporting teams in delivering disclosures that are proportionate to an entity's size, complexity and circumstances.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 77
By way of reminder, the Companies (Directors' Report) (Payment Reporting) Regulations 2025 (SI 2025/1152) have introduced a requirement for companies considered 'large' for accounting purposes to report annually, within their Directors' Reports, on their payment practices in relation to qualifying contracts with suppliers. The obligation to do so applies in relation to financial periods beginning on or after 1 January 2026. For more detail, please see AGC Update, Issue 73 – Item 11.
In 2025, generative AI exploded, divided, and created trust issues
Dec 31, 2025 Stock prices for companies powering AI have seen wild growth. How did we get here, and what lies ahead? This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. 2025 started with a bang for the AI industry. In January, the emergence of a cheaper Chinese rival to ChatGPT — DeepSeek — caused chaos on the stock markets, as U.S. companies realized they weren't the only players in the game. But Deepseek’s dominance was short-lived, partly . Trust seemed to be the main concern.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 76
The Financial Reporting Council has published its first reporting insights on the Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies since it assumed responsibility for them in December 2024 (see AGC Update, Issue 60 – Item 4).
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 74
The Financial Reporting Council has published its Annual Review of Corporate Governance Reporting in which it analyses how a sample of 100 FTSE 350 and Small Cap companies reported in 2025 against the 2018 iteration of the UK Corporate Governance Code (2018 Code), highlighting examples of good practice and identifying areas for improvement. The review follows the publication of the FRC's Annual Review of Corporate Reporting in September (see ).
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 75
The Financial Reporting Council has published a review seeking to improve corporate reporting by smaller listed companies. By way of reminder, the FRC's Annual Review of Corporate Reporting published in September 2025 (see AGC Update, Issue 71 – Item 8) identified that reporting by smaller listed companies was not of the same standard as their FTSE 350 equivalents.
Ashurst Governance and Compliance Update Issue 73
By way of reminder, with effect from 18 November 2025, company directors, LLP members and persons with significant control (PSC) of companies or LLPs must comply with the new identity verification (IDV) provisions introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). Detail on the implications of identity verification for new and existing directors, LLP members and PSCs can be found in . For a series of Q&As on the new IDV requirements, please read .
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 72
We have previously reported that, with effect from 18 November 2025, company directors, LLP members and persons with significant control (PSC) of companies or LLPs must comply with the new identity verification (IDV) provisions introduced by the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA). In we set out a series of Q&A's on the new IDV requirements and suggested that directors of companies should verify their identity on a voluntary basis as soon as possible after 8 April 2025.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 71
The London Stock Exchange has published amended versions of its Admission and Disclosure Standards and Rules of the London Stock Exchange. The rulebooks have been updated to reflect the creation of the Exchange's new Private Securities Market (PSM) - a Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES) established under the PISCES Regulations. The amendments are as proposed in August in Market Notice N09/25. The updated rulebooks are now in force.
Have video games become unaffordable?
Video gaming can be an expensive hobby. Nintendo’s latest Mario Kart game, Mario Kart World, released in June, costs $80, and it’s widely expected that Grand Theft Audio VI, coming out next year, will top $100. So, are games becoming unaffordable, or do gamers not know how good they’ve got it? Super Mario is known as one of the most popular game characters globally. But some fans haven’t been thrilled with the price tag on his latest outing, Mario Kart World.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 70
Companies House has confirmed that mandatory identity verification (IDV) for directors, LLP members and persons with significant control of companies (PSCs) will be effective from 18 November 2025 and has updated its ECCTA 2023 transition plan accordingly. Companies House has also revised its general IDV guidance and specific IDV guidance explaining when mandatory IDV will apply according to an individual's role as a director, LLP member or PSC.
There's big money in esports, but what happens to players when cash prizes end?
This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. At a Rocket League tournament in Birmingham, England, around 50 gamers are living what many would consider to be the dream: playing their favourite video game in front of thousands of fans with hundreds of thousands of dollars up for grabs. But speak to the competitors, and they’ll tell you the reality can be a little different. Archie Pickthall plays for a team called GeeKay.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 69
A draft of the Companies (Directors’ Report) (Payment Reporting) Regulations 2025 has been published and laid before Parliament, together with an Explanatory Memorandum. The Regulations form part of the government's package of measures on this issue – see AGC Update, Issue 56 – Item 7 for a general overview and AGC Update, Issue 60 – Item 2 for the launch of the Fair Payment Code.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 68
The Company Directors (Duties) Bill has been published as a Private Members' Bill. The Bill was introduced by Liberal Democrat MP Martin Wrigley and had its first reading in the House of Commons on 21 October 2024 and second on 4 July 2025 (albeit this reading was adjourned to 12 September 2025).
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 67
The Financial Reporting Council has published the UK Stewardship Code 2026 together with a feedback statement to the consultation it launched in November 2024. For background on the consultation and the Stewardship Code itself, including the way in which the Code works, see AGC Update, Issue 59 – Item 2. For a reminder of the interim changes to the 2020 Stewardship Code introduced in July 2024, see AGC Update, Issue 55 – Item 8.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 66
Companies House given powers to annotate the register As we have previously reported, a key objective of the Economic Crime and Corporate Transparency Act 2023 (ECCTA) is to improve the accuracy and transparency of information held on the public register at Companies House. To that end, the Companies and Limited Liability Partnerships (Annotation) Regulations 2025 (SI 2025/573) (Regulations) have been published, together with an Explanatory Memorandum.
Will European soccer fans embrace show-stopping, off-field entertainment?
This story was produced by our colleagues at the BBC. The Super Bowl halftime show is arguably as iconic as the match itself. But take a sport like soccer and it’s a different picture. Despite the sport’sEuropean bosses investing big money in pre-match entertainment, and plans for a half-time show at the nextWorld Cup, it’s not certain that huge shows are something fans even want.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 65
The Department for Science, Innovation & Technology (DSIT) has published a final version of its Cyber Governance Code of Practice, alongside other materials, to support directors in driving greater cyber resilience. The final Code follows the previous administration's call for evidence in January 2024 (see AGC Update, Issue 48 - Item 2) and the current administration's response a year later.
Signing up for Social Security may soon feel like a trip to the DMV
Mar 19, 2025 Changes to the way we sign up for Social Security will require more people to show up to field offices in person. Segments From This Episode by Nancy Marshall-Genzer Additional identity requirements for those signing up for Social Security could boost visitors to field offices that already have long waits. A presidential appointee has removed more than a dozen board members at Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
Ashurst Governance & Compliance Update - Issue 64
In AGC Update, Issue 63 - Item 10, we noted that directors of companies registered with Companies House (including overseas directors of both UK companies and UK 'establishments') will, from 8 April 2025, be able to verify their identity on a voluntary basis. Companies House guidance on how to do so can be accessed here. How can a director voluntarily verify their identity?
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