Scoping Forums

FMLC Scoping Forums function as focus groups on legal issues affecting specific sectors of the financial markets. The forums are also spaces for discussion of broader issues of legal uncertainty.

Members discuss and clarify issues that might cause substantive legal uncertainty in their industry sector and then submit them to the FMLC for further analysis.

The forums serve six key purposes.

  1. To establish a pool of expertise available to the FMLC;
  2. To enable open discussion among interested parties and facilitate collective legal risk assessment;
  3. To guide the FMLC and establish priorities for the expenditure of resources;
  4. To make recommendations to the FMLC as to specific issues to be addressed;
  5. To make non-binding suggestions as to how the FMLC should engage with the issues; and
  6. To nominate experts to working groups.

If you feel that you or someone from your firm could contribute to a Scoping Forum, please contact the FMLC Secretariat.

Asset Management

The Asset Management Scoping Forum provides a space for experts to discuss new developments and issues of legal uncertainty concerning the buy-side sector.

Asset Management Scoping Forum
Banking Scoping Forum

Banking

The Banking Scoping Forum was established to consider, in the first instance, legal uncertainties arising from the European Commission’s Banking Reform Package published in November 2016, which proposed fundamental...
‘ESG’ Scoping Forum

Environmental, Social & Governance

Environmental, Social and Governance (“ESG”) considerations are gaining importance in the financial markets.
FinTech Scoping Forum

Finance & Technology

A space to discuss financial technology and the legal uncertainties it presents to the wholesale financial markets.

Infrastructure

Attends to issues of legal uncertainty concerning institutions that enablethe effective operation of financial intermediates, such as payment systems, central counterparties (“CCPs”) and securities settlement facilities (“SSFs”).

Infrastructure Scoping Forum
Insurance and Pensions Scoping Forum

Insurance & Pensions

Formerly titled the Insurance Scoping Forum, the Forum’s membership included in-house counsel from insurance/reinsurance firms and lawyers in private practice. In 2019 the Committee expanded the Forum’s remit and...
Quarterly Discussion Scoping Forum

Quarterley Discussion Forum

A transatlantic collaboration consisting of quarterly teleconferences which guide the FMLC’s work on issues concerning the fixed income and derivatives markets.
Securities Markets Scoping Forum

Securities Markets

A space for the discussion of concerns relevant to the securities markets, including aspects of MiFID II and MAR.

Sovereign Debt

The FMLC has a long-standing history in tackling sovereign debt issues: it hosted a seminar on this topic in 2012 and produced a paper on pari passu clauses in...

Sovereign Debt Scoping Forum