Due to increasing requirements to obtain client data and record keeping under AML and MiFID II legislation the area of data protection is becoming more complex.

Better Regulation’s UK Data Protection Law Online covers all the applicable data protection legislation and the latest developments affecting the financial services industry. Our legislation coverage includes fully consolidated and up-to-date versions of the Data Protection Act 1998, as well as the Data Protection Directive and General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

We publish updates and guidance from the Information Commissioner's Office as well as from European and international bodies.

Data Protection is also one of our Topics areas, which has links to latest news and developments, key documents and a summary of the GDPR.

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Organisations covered

United Kingdom

  • Action Fraud
  • Association of British Insurers
  • Association of Financial Mutuals
  • Association of Investment Companies
  • Bank of England
  • Banking Standards Board
  • Building Societies Association
  • Chartered Banker
  • Competition and Markets Authority
  • Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy
  • Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport
  • FCA Practitioner Panel
  • FICC Markets Standards Board
  • Financial Conduct Authority
  • Financial Fraud Action UK
  • Financial Markets Law Committee
  • Financial Ombudsman Service
  • Financial Reporting Council
  • Financial Services Compensation Scheme
  • Financial Services Consumer Panel
  • HM Revenue & Customs
  • HM Treasury
  • Independent Commission on Banking
  • Information Commissioner's Office
  • Institute and Faculty of Actuaries
  • Joint Money Laundering Steering Group
  • Law Commission
  • Lending Standards Board
  • Ministry of Justice
  • National Crime Agency
  • Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation
  • Pay.UK
  • Payment Systems Regulator
  • Prudential Regulation Authority
  • Rescue Recovery Renewal
  • Serious Fraud Office
  • The Covered Bond Label Foundation
  • The Investment Association
  • The Pensions Regulator
  • The Risk Coalition
  • The Takeover Panel
  • TheCityUK
  • Transparency International UK
  • UK Endorsement Board
  • UK Finance
  • UK Government
  • UK Parliament

European

  • Association of Mutual Insurers and Insurance Cooperatives in Europe
  • European Banking Authority
  • European Banking Federation
  • European Capital Markets Institute
  • European Capital Markets Institute
  • European Central Bank
  • European Commission
  • European Council
  • European Financial Reporting Advisory Group
  • European Fund and Asset Management Association
  • European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority
  • European Mortgage Federation
  • European Parliament
  • European Payments Council
  • European Securities and Markets Authority
  • European Supervisory Authorities
  • European Systemic Risk Board
  • European Union
  • Expert Group of the European Securities Committee
  • Financial Service User Group
  • Institutional Money Market Funds Association
  • Insurance Europe
  • Single Resolution Board
  • The Covered Bond Label Foundation

International

  • Bank for International Settlements
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision
  • Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures
  • Committee on the Global Financial System
  • Egmont Group
  • Financial Action Task Force
  • Financial Stability Board
  • FSI - Financial Stability Institute
  • G20 - Group of Twenty
  • Global Foreign Exchange Committee
  • Group of International Finance Centre Supervisors
  • International Association of Insurance Supervisors
  • International Banking Federation
  • International Financial Reporting Standards
  • International Monetary Fund
  • International Organization of Securities Commissions
  • International Quality & Productivity Center
  • International Swaps and Derivatives Association
  • Irving Fisher Committee on Central Bank Statistics
  • Office of Foreign Assets Control
  • Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
  • United Nations
  • Wolfsberg Group


Regulated activities covered

  • Accepting deposits
  • Electronic Money
  • Insurance
  • Investments as principal or agent
  • Credit Broking
  • Operating an Electronic System
  • Managing investments
  • Assisting in the Administration and Performance of a Contract of Insurance
  • Activities in Relation to Debt
  • Collective investment
  • Pension schemes
  • Providing basic advice on stakeholder products
  • Advising on investments
  • Regulated Credit Agreements
  • Regulated Consumer Hire Agreements
  • Regulated mortgage contracts
  • Regulated home reversion plans
  • Regulated home purchase plans
  • Regulated Sale and Rent Back Agreements
  • and more


Our clients include

  • Accountant
  • Actuary
  • AML Reporting Officer
  • AML Specialist
  • Audit Relationship Manager
  • Auditor
  • Business Analyst
  • CFO
  • Chartered Legal Executive
  • Company Secretaries
  • Compliance Monitoring Manager
  • Compliance Officer
  • Conduct Assurance Manager
  • Directors
  • Finance Business Partner
  • Finance Directors
  • Financial Crime Officer
  • General Counsel
  • Head of Assurance
  • Head of Compliance
  • Head of Group Risk Assurance
  • Head of Operations and Communications
  • Head of Technical Services
  • Intelligence Officer
  • Knowledge Manager
  • Legal Adviser
  • Librarian
  • Life and Pensions Technical Specialist
  • Manager of Fund Services
  • Managing Director
  • Operational Risk Manager Life and GI
  • Policy Analyst
  • Principal Officer
  • Proposition and Marketing
  • Regulatory Change Management
  • Regulatory Risk Officers
  • Risk & Compliance Specialist
  • Risk Manager
  • Senior Actuarial Risk Analyst
  • Senior Compliance Officer
  • Senior Insurance Supervisor
  • Senior Technical Consultant
  • Tax Manager


Subject areas covered

  • Accounting
  • Actuarial
  • Africa
  • AIFs
  • Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive - AIFMD
  • AnaCredit
  • Asset-Covered Securities/Covered Bonds
  • Auditing
  • Authorisation
  • Bank Recovery & Resolution Directives - BRRD/BRRD II
  • Banking Standards Review
  • Banking Structural Reform
  • Banks/Credit Institutions
  • Basel
  • Benchmarks
  • Benchmarks Regulation - BMR
  • Betting, Gaming and Lotteries
  • Bureaux de Change
  • Capital Markets
  • Capital Markets Union - CMU
  • Capital Requirements
  • Capital Requirements Legislation - CRD IV/V, CRR/CRR2
  • CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation
  • Central Securities Depositories Regulation - CSDR
  • Charities
  • Client assets
  • Climate Change
  • Companies
  • Compensation
  • Competition
  • Constitutional Law
  • Consumer Credit
  • Consumer duty
  • Consumer Protection
  • Contracts
  • Corporate Governance
  • COVID-19 (Coronavirus)
  • CP86
  • Credit Rating
  • Credit Rating Agencies Regulation - CRAR
  • Credit Unions
  • Cross-border
  • Cross-border fund distribution
  • Crowdfunding/Third Party Funding
  • Crypto-assets
  • Culture in Financial Services
  • Cyber Security
  • Data Protection
  • Data/Statistics
  • Deposit Guarantee Schemes
  • Derivatives
  • Digital Finance / Fintech
  • Dispute Resolution
  • Dodd-Frank
  • E-Commerce
  • Employment
  • Energy Market
  • Enforcement/Breaches
  • Environmental, social and governance - ESG
  • EU Banking Union
  • EU Exit
  • European Long-Term Investment Fund - ELTIF
  • European Market Infrastructure Regulation - EMIR/EMIR Refit
  • European Union
  • FATCA
  • Financial Crime & AML/CFT
  • Financial Education/Guidance
  • Financial Services Contracts Regime - FSCR
  • Financial Services Regulation
  • Financial Stability
  • Fit and Proper
  • Freedom of Information
  • Funds
  • General Data Protection Regulation - GDPR
  • Government Policy
  • Health Insurance
  • Insolvency and Restructuring
  • Insurance & Reinsurance
  • Insurance and Reinsurance Directive - Solvency II
  • Insurance Claims
  • Insurance Distribution Directive - IDD
  • Insurance recovery and resolution
  • InsurTech
  • Interchange Fee Regulation
  • International
  • International Accounting Standards
  • Investment
  • Investment Firms Directive & Regulation - IFD / IFR
  • Investor Protection
  • IORP II Directive
  • LIBOR transition
  • Liquidity
  • Listing
  • Market Abuse Regulation
  • Market Abuse/Insider Dealing
  • Market infrastructure
  • Markets in Financial Instruments Legislation - MiFID II / MiFIR
  • Mergers and Acquisitions
  • Monetary Policy
  • Money Laundering Regulation
  • Money Market Funds Regulation - MMFR
  • Mortgage Credit Directive - MCD
  • Mortgages
  • Mutual Societies
  • National Asset Management Agency - NAMA
  • National Treasury Management Agency - NTMA
  • Non-financial reporting
  • Non-performing loans/exposures, NPL/NPE
  • Non-UCITS
  • Offshore
  • Operational resilience
  • Outsourcing
  • Partnerships
  • Pawnbrokers
  • Payment Services Directive - PSD2
  • Payment Systems & Services
  • Pensions
  • PRIIPs Regulation
  • Property / Real Estate
  • Prospectus Directive - PD
  • Prospectus Regulation - PR
  • Prospectuses
  • Recovery and Resolution
  • RegTech
  • Regulatory Reporting
  • Remuneration
  • Retail Distribution Review - RDR
  • Ring-fencing
  • Risk
  • Sanctions
  • Saudi Arabia
  • Securities
  • Securities Financing Transactions Regulation - SFTR
  • Securitisation Regulation
  • Senior Executive Accountability Regime - SEAR
  • Senior Insurance Managers Regime - SIMR
  • Senior Managers and Certification Regime - SMCR
  • Shadow Banking
  • Shareholders Rights Directive / Shareholder Rights Directive II - SRD II
  • Short Selling
  • Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation - SRMR/SRMR II
  • Single Supervisory Mechanism - SSM
  • Small & Medium Enterprises - SMEs
  • Social Welfare
  • Solvency II
  • Special Administration Regime - SAR
  • Sustainable Finance
  • Takeover Rules/Code
  • Taxation
  • Temporary Permissions Regime – TPR / Temporary Recognition Regime -TRR
  • Temporary Transitional Power - TTP
  • Transparency
  • Transparency Directive - TD
  • Transport
  • Trusts
  • UCITS
  • UK Financial Services Future Regulatory Framework Review
  • UK Investment Firm Prudential Regime (IFPR)
  • UK LCO
  • UK-adopted International Accounting Standards
  • Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive - UCITS Directive
  • Whistleblowing