Better Regulation's UK Company Law Online service is specifically designed to provide the user with an easy to use and complete one-stop resource for all company law material.

Every statute, including the Companies Act 2006 and associated legislation, is consolidated and completely up-to-date, with all amendments incorporated into the text. The history of amendments shows every change made to the text and enables comparison of one version against another.

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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