On July 13, 2026, the United Kingdom designated four major cloud services and technology providers as critical third parties (CTPs) to increase the resilience of the U.K.’s financial system. The designations were made under the Financial Services and Markets Act 2000 (FSMA), as amended by the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023. The newly designated CTPs are Microsoft Ireland Operations Ltd., Google Cloud EMEA Ltd., Amazon Web Services EMEA SARL, and Oracle Corp. UK Ltd....