ESMA reminds firms on rules of reverse solicitation - In a statement published on 13 January 2021, ESMA reminded firms not established or situated in the EU of the MiFID II requirements on the provision of investment...more
Amendments have been made to the FCA’s Dual-Regulated firms Remuneration Code under SYSC 19D and the Remuneration Part of the PRA Rulebook (together the “Remuneration Codes”) to implement the remuneration aspects of the EU...more
31 December - The Brexit Transitional Period (pursuant to which the UK stayed in the Single Market and European Customs Union came to an end. The FCA updated its Brexit webpages to remind firms of the potential impact...more
CRD V and BRRD II-derived UK legislation: PRA statement on application of temporary transitional power - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a statement on the application of its temporary...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
Draft Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020 - HM Treasury has published draft Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2020, together with a draft...more
The Single Resolution Board has launched a consultation on proposed changes to its policy on minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL) for Eurozone banks, designed to bring the SRB’s MREL policy in...more
Los Estados Miembros deben trasponer la Directiva sobre Requisitos de Capital V antes del 28 de diciembre de 2020. El 7 de junio de 2019, el Diario Oficial de la UE publicó el texto de la Directiva sobre requisitos de...more
Member States must implement the Capital Requirements Directive V by 28 December 2020. On 7 June 2019 the EU Official Journal published the text of the Capital Requirements Directive V (CRD V), which introduced several...more
We look at the architecture of the new European regulatory framework and some of the key areas relevant to the corporate structure of UK and other European financial institutions....more
The legislative amendments to the EU's Capital Requirements Regulation and the Capital Requirements Directive, widely referred to as "CRD5" or "CRR2", have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Subject...more