JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability (Encore Presentation)
JONES DAY TALKS®: European Central Bank’s Climate Center & Investment Plans Focus on Sustainability
Nota Bene Episode 81: European Check In: How the EU is Dealing with the Pandemic’s Economic Fallout with Oliver Heinisch
To keep you informed of recent activities, below are several of the most significant federal events that have influenced the Consumer Financial Services industry over the past week....more
BaFin Consults 9th MaRisk Amendment - On 1 April 2026, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (Bundesanstalt für Finanzdienstleistungsaufsicht, BaFin) submitted a draft of a 9th amendment to the “Minimum...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the European Central Bank publishing a comprehensive Eurosystem Payments Strategy; the Reserve Bank of Australia confirming the decision to remove surcharging, reduce...more
Pound (GBP) subdued as BoE rate hike bets continue to drop - The pound (GBP) was muted against most of its peers at the end of last week, as expectations for any meaningful tightening from the Bank of England (BoE)...more
In the aftermath of the financial crisis bank supervisors increased their scrutiny of leveraged lending by banks due to the high-risk profile of such loans. In 2013/2014, the US supervisors took a prescriptive approach, inter...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its Governing Council's response to the European Commission's targeted consultation on the competitiveness of the EU banking sector. The response builds on the ECB's High-Level...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Systemic Risk Board (ESRB) have published a joint report on the usability of capital buffers. The report analyses how prudential and resolution frameworks interact, and how...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its comprehensive payments strategy, setting out a consolidated, forward‑looking approach for the development of European payments across wholesale, business‑to‑business, retail...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced changes to streamline the supervision of banks' internal models for credit risk, aimed at making the approval process for material model changes faster and more predictable while...more
A Corrigendum to Regulation (EU) 2025/1355 of the European Central Bank on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems, was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Corrigendum makes...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has launched a call for expression of interest inviting licensed payment service providers (PSPs) to participate in a digital euro pilot, marking a further step in the ECB Governing Council's...more
On 27 January 2026, the European Central Bank ("ECB") published a press release together with a draft amending Guideline (ECB 2026/1), pending publication in the Official Journal of the EU, which amends the Eurosystem...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced a collaboration with the ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities to ensure that the proposed digital euro is accessible to all users,...more
A lack of British economic data left the pound (GBP) to trade without a clear trajectory on Tuesday. GBP investors also seemed content to stay on the sidelines ahead of the Bank of England’s (BoE) interest rate decision,...more
This month's ESG Regulatory Monthly Round-Up sets out updates from the UK, EU and elsewhere across the globe for January 2026. ...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced that the Eurosystem will accept marketable assets issued in central securities depositories (CSDs) that use distributed‑ledger‑technology (DLT) services as eligible collateral for...more
Trade tensions and broader political risks and uncertainty persist and remain of concern to financial markets and their supervisory authorities generally. Across the UK and EU consistent themes continue to centre around...more
In January 2026, the European Central Bank ("ECB") introduced a fast-track assessment for certain capital operations and significant risk transfer ("SRT") securitizations, cutting typical decision times from about three...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published its staff contribution to the European Commission's (EC) targeted consultation on the application of the market risk prudential framework (FRTB). The ECB welcomes the proposal to...more
As institutions enter the 2026 SREP cycle, the ECB is signaling a shift from remediation to enforcement in respect of unresolved climate-risk deficiencies. Following several years of supervisory expectations, thematic...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has announced it will conduct a geopolitical risk reverse stress test on 110 directly supervised banks in the Single Supervisory Mechanism in 2026. In a reverse stress test, a pre-defined...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has contributed to the EU's ongoing simplification agenda by endorsing a series of recommendations for simplification of the EU prudential framework. A total of 17 recommendations were made by...more
On 17 June 2025, the European Commission (Commission) published a package of proposals for the reform of the European Securitisation Framework (EU Securitisation Reform Proposals). The EU Securitisation Reform Proposals...more
Securitisation reform is on the horizon in the EU. A substantial package of measures could unlock the market’s full potential, but it also risks introducing new burdens; we hope that legislators will ensure that existing...more
Guideline (EU) 2025/2595 of the European Central Bank (ECB) has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The guideline, adopted on 10 December, sets out a harmonised supervisory approach for national...more