Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....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
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
CRR: Commission Implementing Regulation containing ITS on reporting requirements for market risk Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/453 containing implementing technical standards (ITS) on specific reporting...more
LIBOR transition: Working Group's best practice guide for GBP loans and Q&A - The Working Group Sterling Risk-Free Reference Rates published a best practice guide for GBP loans. Alongside the guide, the Working Group also...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
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
Branch and ATM closures or conversions: FCA FG20/3 - Following consultation, the UK Financial Conduct (FCA) has published finalised guidance, FG20/3, on branch and ATM closures or conversions. The guidance applies to...more
Recent regulatory development focussing on banking and finance. Includes updates relating to COVID-19 regulatory response, CRR, and more....more
The Banking Supervision arm of the European Central Bank has opened a consultation on a proposed guide on assessing counterparty credit risk...more
The European Central Bank has opened a consultation on proposed guidelines on the materiality threshold for credit obligations past due for less significant institutions based in the Eurozone. The EU Capital Requirements...more
Following the coming into force on April 26, 2019 of an EU regulation amending the Capital Requirements Regulation that introduced a statutory prudential backstop, and requires banks to have minimum loan loss coverage for...more
The European Central Bank has published the final first chapter of its guide to internal models. The Capital Requirements Regulation requires the ECB to assess and grant permission for banks directly supervised by the ECB to...more
The Situation: The European Central Bank ("ECB") has announced that it will set bank-specific supervisory expectations for the provisioning of non-performing loans ("NPLs") in a consistent way across comparable banks, which...more
The European Central Bank has published an Opinion on the legislative proposals adopted by the European Commission in December 2017 for a new framework for the prudential regulation of investment firms. The framework proposed...more
The European Banking Authority has published a response following allegations by Caius Capital LLP that UniCredit S.p.A.'s regulatory capital treatment in respect of a 2008 issuance of convertible and subordinated hybrid...more
The European Central Bank has launched a consultation on a proposed Regulation on the materiality threshold for credit obligations past due under the Capital Requirements Regulation. The CRR risk quantification provisions set...more
On March 23, 2018, the European Central Bank (“ECB“) published the final versions of its: Guide to assessments of license applications. This sets out the general process and the requirements for the assessment of credit...more
On December 14, 2017, the European Central Bank (“ECB“) published its first consultation on the draft ECB guide on the assessment methodology (EGAM) for the internal model method (“IMM“) and the advanced credit valuation...more
BREXIT - European Commission legislative proposal for Regulation on relocation of EBA - On 29 November, the EC adopted a legislative proposal for a Regulation containing amendments to the EBA Regulation (Regulation...more
SEC Announces the Formation and First Members of Fixed Income Market Structure Advisory Committee - On November 9, 2017, the Securities and Exchange Commission ("SEC") announced the formation and first members of its Fixed...more
On November 10, 2017, the European Central Bank (“ECB“) published an opinion (dated November 8, 2017) on the European Commission’s legislative proposals to implement the Financial Stability Board’s (FSB) total loss absorbing...more
The European Central Bank has published a Guideline and Recommendation to harmonize the way in which Euro member state national regulators of "less significant" banks exercise discretions available to them under the Capital...more
Guidelines laying down principles for the coordination of the assessment and monitoring by the European Central Bank and regulators of institutional protection schemes pursuant to the Capital Requirements Regulation was...more