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In our previous alert “Acquiring or Investing in EU Crypto-Asset Businesses: MiCA’s Impact,” we discussed the impact of the European Union (EU) Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) on the acquisition or investment in EU...more
On 17 October 2023, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a statement (the Statement) clarifying the timeline for implementation of the Regulation on Markets in Cryptoassets ((EU) 2023/1114) (MiCA)...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
The European Commission has adopted and published the final draft risk retention regulatory technical standards. The European Commission has adopted and published the final draft risk retention regulatory technical...more
The European Commission has adopted and published final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying requirements for originators, sponsors and original lenders in relation to risk retention under the EU...more
On 20 December 2022, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published the final report on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the identification of a group of “connected clients” under Article 4(4) of the Capital...more
The European Banking Authority (the EBA) recently published a consultation paper with proposed amendments to the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the homogeneity of the underlying exposures in securitisation, following...more
The European Banking Authority recently published its final draft of the regulatory technical standards in relation to risk retention under the EU Securitisation Regulation. This LawFlash covers some of the key aspects of...more
On 12 April 2022, the European Banking Authority (the "EBA") announced the publication of its long awaited final draft of the risk retention RTS (the "Final Draft RTS"). The EBA's mandate for this RTS is derived from Article...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. 28 February - The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Handbook Notice...more
Recent changes to the Securitisation Regulation allow eligible servicers in the EU to retain the 5% net economic interest in traditional securitisations of non-performing exposures (NPEs). The European Banking Authority (EBA)...more
The European Banking Authority is consulting on draft Regulatory Technical Standards to amend the existing RTS on strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication under the EU Payment...more
Brexit - FCA provides information on the Temporary Permissions Regime (TPR) On 3 March, the FCA published new webpages providing information on the TPR. Firstly, the FCA published a webpage on how it will supervise firms...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
The European Banking Authority has published amendments to the 2018 Guidelines on fraud reporting under the revised Payment Services Directive (known as PSD2). The Regulatory Technical Standards on "strong customer...more
The European Banking Authority has launched a consultation on its draft regulatory technical standards specifying how institutions should calculate their own funds requirements for market risk in respect of non-trading book...more
The European Banking Authority has launched a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards setting out the criteria for identifying staff whose professional activities have a material impact on credit...more
The European Banking Authority has published final draft Regulatory Technical Standards governing the standardized approach to counterparty credit risk in derivatives transactions. The final draft SA-CCR RTS will supplement...more
The Bank of Israel recently led several important developments in the Israeli payments market. These developments are designed to encourage competition in the payment services market and to advance the implementation of...more
What is it? The EU has finalised and issued a new framework for the prudential regulation of investment firms. It will set new classification for investment firms that will in turn determine which of the new capital...more
Within a fortnight of each other, the STS Notification RTS was published in final form and the homogeneity RTS for STS securitisations will enter into force. This alert highlights how STS securitisations will be affected. ...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has announced in a "Dear CEO" letter that it will not take enforcement action against firms that are not compliant with Strong Customer Authentication requirements for electronic payment...more
The European Banking Authority has published an Opinion on market approaches to payment authentication that will be deemed compliant with the new rules on strong customer authentication coming into force later this year....more
The European Banking Authority has published draft Implementing Technical Standards for supervisory reporting, which make changes to the existing reporting obligations of EU banks (credit institutions) and investment firms....more
The European Commission has adopted draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the EU Securitization Regulation on the conditions for a securitization to be considered homogenous. Homogeneity is one of the requirements for a...more