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Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
The EBA has launched a consultation on two RTS and ITS on the functioning of supervisory colleges under the CRD. These new technical standards will ensure that the Level 2 framework for the functioning of supervisory colleges...more
ECB in focus is our blog dedicated to the banking supervisory activities of the European Central Bank (ECB). We report on key developments in European banking regulation led by the ECB as part of the Single Supervisory...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in April 2023: 28 April FCA Handbook: The Financial Conduct...more
In January 2023, the European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) released their opinions on the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS). As we have previously discussed, a...more
Our monthly regulatory newsletter monitors all relevant developments regarding German and European regulatory law in English language. In addition, we prepare an overview of articles and court decisions published in German...more
Major Developments- Federal Reserve issues FOMC statement- June 15, 2022- The Federal Reserve issued a statement regarding the Federal Open Market Committee meeting held June 14-15.-...more
The European Commission has launched a targeted consultation on a possible digital euro. The EU is considering introducing a digital euro for retail payments, which would be available alongside cash. A decision has not yet...more
"It can‘t go on like this!" This statement is not only made by the young people who pass by the windows of our office every Friday morning. In fact, this statement was already made binding by the Paris Climate Change...more
BCBS rules on NPL securitisations: PRA CP10/21 extended closing date The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has announced that it has extended the closing date, from 26 July 2021 to 9 August 2021, for responses to its June...more
UK and Singapore Financial Partnership on financial services HM Treasury has announced that it has agreed a new "Financial Partnership" between the UK and Singapore which will support increased financial services between the...more
UK Securitisation Regulation: HM Treasury review HM Treasury has published a call for evidence to inform its review of the retained EU law version of the EU Securitisation Regulation (UK Securitisation Regulation or "Sec...more
2022/23 supervisory benchmarking exercise for capital internal models: PRA statement - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a statement on its expectations concerning the 2022 and 2023 supervisory...more
Depositor protection identity verification: PRA PS4/21 - Following its consultation in CP3/21, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS4/21, on depositor protection identity...more
26 February - HM Treasury published a report setting out the findings of the Kalifa Review of UK FinTech. The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Handbook Notice 85, which sets out changes to the FCA Handbook...more
Bank Recovery and Resolution (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - The Bank Recovery and Resolution (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 (SI 2020/1350) have been published, together with an explanatory memorandum....more
Submission of statistical data: BoE Green Notice 2020/02 - The Bank of England (BoE) has published a Green Notice 2020/02 announcing future changes to the submission of statistical data to its Data and Statistics Division...more
PSD2: EBA proposes changes to Guidelines on major incident reporting after latest review - Following the European Banking Authority's (EBA's) latest required review of its July 2017 Guidelines on major incident reporting...more
The European Central Bank has published a report by the Eurosystem High-Level Task Force on a digital euro. The digital euro would be a form of central bank digital currency. No decision has been taken yet to issue a digital...more
The European Central Bank has published its final Guide on the assessment methodology it will use to examine: (i) the internal model methods banks use to calculate exposures to counterparty credit risk; and (ii) the advanced...more
Proprietary trading review: PRA report - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a report on the outcome of its proprietary trading review. The review was required under section 9 of the Financial...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a final report and final draft Regulatory Technical Standards to further postpone the securities settlement discipline rules under the Central Securities...more
The European Central Bank, Banking Supervision division has published a guideline harmonizing the threshold for assessing the materiality of credit obligations past due for the purposes of default assessments under the EU...more