On 30 July 2024, the Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper setting out its approach to innovations in money and payments (Discussion Paper). In the Discussion Paper, the BoE sets out its current view on...more
The Bank of England has published the findings from its second assessment of the eight major U.K. banks under the Resolvability Assessment Framework. The assessment finds that the major U.K. banks have continued to make...more
Firms have just over six months until the transition period for implementing the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Bank of England rules and guidance on operational resilience...more
Amongst the broad range of updates this week, at international level, the FSB published its thematic peer review on MMF Reforms and the BCBS published the outcomes of its meeting held on 28 and 29 February, including that it...more
In this alert we consider various reforms and proposals to the banking sector announced by UK regulators. On 11 January 2024, HM Treasury published a consultation paper on enhancing the UK’s Special Resolution Regime for...more
Recent changes to the PRA’s approach to enforcement show an increased focus on expediting the investigative process and incentivising early admissions. On 30 January 2024, the Bank of England (the Bank) unveiled a number...more
HM Treasury has launched a consultation that sets out proposals for enhancing the Special Resolution Regime by introducing a new means for the Bank of England, as the U.K. resolution authority, to use stabilization powers to...more
HM Treasury has published a report on the Future of Payments Review 2023 (the Report), which was launched as part of the Chancellor's Mansion House Reforms in July 2023. The Report aims to provide a 'high-level, strategic...more
The eagerly awaited seventh edition of the Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Grid was published on 30 November 2023 by the Financial Services Regulatory Initiatives Forum. The Regulatory Initiatives Grid sets out the...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority and Bank of England have jointly published their revised Complaints Scheme, which governs how complaints against the U.K. regulators should be made and...more
On February 7, 2023, the Bank of England (BoE) released two documents concerning a central bank digital currency (CBDC), a prospective government-backed digital form of U.K. currency also known as the "digital pound." ...more
The Bank of England released a report titled Climate-Related Risks and the Regulatory Capital Framework (Report) on March 13, 2023. The Report expands on the Bank’s 2021 Climate Change Adaptation Report (CCAR), in which it...more
On Monday March 13, 2023, the Bank of England announced that Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited has been sold to HSBC UK Bank Plc. The situation remains fluid, and the following Q&A reflects our understanding as of Monday...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has announced that Silicon Valley Bank UK Limited (SVB UK) will be sold to HSBC UK Bank Plc (HSBC). This is being carried out under the aegis of the Special Resolution Regime (SRR) — a bespoke...more
On Friday March 10, 2023, the Bank of England moved to put the UK arm of Silicon Valley Bank into insolvency after it applied for £1.8bn of liquidity as its parent company was collapsing. The situation remains fluid, and the...more
News of the failure of Silicon Valley Bank in the United States has dominated headlines over the last few days. Late yesterday, Friday, 10 March 2023, the Bank of England made an announcement about the status of Silicon...more
With a new operational resilience framework in force in the UK and similar reforms proposed in the EU and the US, we examine how the regimes compare and their practical impact on financial services firms....more
The Financial Services and Markets Bill establishes a new framework for the Bank of England’s regulation of Financial Market Infrastructure (FMI) and in particular central counterparties (CCPs) and central securities...more
The Bank of England, Prudential Regulation Authority and Financial Conduct Authority (together, the supervisory authorities) have published a discussion paper proposing measures to supervise and enhance the resilience of...more
New High Court case considers nature and scope of the Quincecare duty - In June, the Court of Appeal expanded the scope of a bank’s duty of care to protect its customers from fraud to encompass instructions by those other...more
The Bank of England has written to the CEOs of all regulated U.K. financial market infrastructures notifying them that they are no longer expected to discuss prospective shareholder distributions with the BoE....more
COVID-19: BoE statement on regulatory treatment of Recovery Loan Scheme - The Bank of England (BoE) has published a statement on the regulatory treatment of the UK Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS), which has been launched as part...more
The Bank of England has announced its climate stress test exercise for the financial services sector will be held in June 2021. Climate stress test launch - The stress test is a tool to (i) measure the risks faced in...more
CRD V: Draft Financial Holding Companies (Approval etc) and Capital Requirements (Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential Measures) (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - HM Treasury has published a draft version of the...more
Background and Context - On March 9 and 10, The Financial Policy Committee (“FPC“) met to discuss developments since its meeting on October 2, 2019 and the consequences of Covid-19. Questions have arisen as to how the...more