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Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
The European Banking Authority published its 2025 European Resolution Examination Programme report. The report sets three priorities for resolution authorities and banks for 2025 and looks at the progress achieved in 2023,...more
The European Banking Authority has published a no-action letter in response to the European Commission's postponement of the application of the revised market risk framework, also known as the Fundamental Review of the...more
The European Union (EU) Artificial Intelligence Act (AI Act), Regulation (EU) 2024/1689 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 13 June 2024 laying down harmonised rules on artificial intelligence and amending...more
July 26, 2024- A new Eurobarometer survey published today shows that Europeans identify respect for democracy, human rights, and the rule of law (38%) and economic, industrial, and trading power (34%) as the main strengths...more
July 25, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency issued a statement reminding banks of potential risks associated with third-party arrangements...more
The European Commission has adopted the Commission Implementing Regulation amending the Implementing Technical Standards laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1799 as regards the mapping tables specifying...more
The European Banking Authority has finalized its draft implementing technical standards on public disclosures by institutions that implement the changes in the Pillar 3 disclosure framework introduced by the third Capital...more
June 24, 2024 - U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks on housing policy and announcing new efforts by the Treasury Department using its existing authorities to increase the supply of housing....more
I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more
May 31, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly issued updated host state loan-to-deposit ratios that are used to evaluate compliance...more
March 25, 2024- The Department of the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) sanctioned thirteen entities and two individuals for operating in the financial services and technology sectors of the Russian...more
January 17, 2024- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led a letter to the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of...more
January 8, 2024- Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen gave remarks at the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network. January 8, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board released the G.19 consumer credit data for November 2023....more
December 12, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on Capital Markets held a hearing entitled, "Examining the Agenda of Regulators, SROs, and Standards-Setters for Accounting, Auditing."...more
“Super Wednesday” 28 June 2023 marked the beginning of the next phase in the evolution of EU payments regulation with the European Commission’s publication of its anticipated proposals to improve the functioning of PSD2. This...more
December 7, 2023- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) and Banking Committee Republicans are calling on Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
November 21, 2023- The U.S. Department of the Treasury, through the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC), and IRS Criminal Investigation (CI), has settled with Binance...more
November 8, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on Small Business held a hearing entitled, "Burdensome Regulations: Examining the Effects of Department of Energy Regulations on America's Job Creators."...more
October 26, 2023- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Combating the Networks of Illicit Finance and Terrorism." October 26, 2023- The U.S. House Committee on...more
October 20, 2023- The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency are extending until January 16, 2024, the comment period on their large bank capital...more
October 19, 2023- The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau proposed a rule that would accelerate a shift toward open banking, where consumers would have control over data about their financial lives and would gain new...more
The EU has adopted the final text of the Directive on consumer credits to revise and replace the Consumer Credit Directive (2008/48/EC) (CCD II). The next step will be publication in the Official Journal of the EU and then...more
Partners Niall Esler and Shane Martin, along with senior associate Conor Daly and trainee solicitor Coleen Wegmann, have authored the Ireland chapter for Global Legal Insights Fintech 2023. They provide an up-to-date summary...more