In July 2025 the Gauteng high court set aside a rational November 2022 decision of the Financial Services Tribunal (FST) and declared that an administrative penalty under section 167 of the Financial Sector Regulation Act could be imposed on a foreign person because the administrative penalty had been served on the foreign persons by electronic means
The Supreme Court of Appeal in this judgment, found that sections 154, 167 and 231 of the Financial Sector Regulation Act 2017 are not unconstitutional nor invalid.
The correct interpretation of section 154 (which entitles the Financial Services Conduct Authority to make a debarment order after consultation) is that it does not exclude the Authority
The Supreme Court of Appeal in this judgment, found that sections 154, 167 and 231 of the Financial Sector Regulation Act 2017 are not unconstitutional nor invalid.
The correct interpretation of section 154 (which entitles the Financial Services Conduct Authority to make a debarment order after consultation) is that it does not exclude the Authority
The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority intends to drop plans to hold heads of legal departments at banks and insurance firms responsible for ignoring misconduct because it would hamper lawyers from giving independent legal advice. General counsels will be excluded from the new accountability regime for senior managers.
Binding legal counsel to the accountability provisions would
The Draft Financial Sector Laws Amendment Bill has been published for comment. The Bill proposes amendments to various acts including the Insolvency Act, the South African Reserve Bank Act, the Banks Act, the Mutual Banks Act, the Competition Act, the Financial Markets Act and the Insurance Act – with a view to strengthening the ability
Most sections of the Financial Sector Regulation Act 2017 were brought into force from 1 April 2018. This step was anticipated as the first step towards the commencement of the new Insurance Act on 1 July 2018.
By a two-step process the Minister was empowered in a Gazette of 29 March 2018 to make regulations,
The Financial Sector Regulation Bill was signed into law by President Zuma on 21 August 2017. The commencement dates for the new Financial Sector Regulation Act (FSR Act) are not yet known.
The act provides the architecture for the new ‘twin peaks’ method of regulation to be adopted across the South African financial services industry,