Podcast: ESMA Report: Undue Pressure on Companies
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the European Parliament’s ECON Committee adopting draft reports on the European Commission’s PSR and PSD3 legislative proposals; ESMA consulting on 'reverse...more
Key developments of interest over the last month include: the UK Payment Systems Regulator’s proposals on mandatory reimbursement for APP fraud; the Central Bank of Ireland’s announcement of a review of the Consumer...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in October 2022:...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. Key developments in May 2022: 31 May - Key developments in May 2022: The European...more
Benchmarks (Provision of Information and Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 published The Benchmarks (Provision of Information and Documents) (Amendment) Regulations 2021 (SI 2021/920) (Amending Regulations) have been...more
SMCR for FMIs: HM Treasury consultation HM Treasury has published a consultation paper proposing a Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR or SM&CR) for financial market infrastructures (FMIs). The consultation closes...more
BROKER-DEALER - SEC Issues Amendments, Seeks Public Comment on Holding Foreign Companies Accountable Act - On March 24, the Securities and Exchange Commission adopted interim final amendments to implement...more
Resolvability Assessment Framework: BoE Dear CEO letter The Bank of England (BoE) has published a letter sent by Dave Ramsden, BoE Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, to the CEOs of the eight UK banks in the scope of the...more
30 November - The Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) published a statement about its forthcoming policy statement on implementing the CRD V Directive ((EU) 2019/878). HM Treasury updated its webpage on a call for...more
BoE and CFTC MoU for supervision of cross-border clearing organisations - The Bank of England (BoE) and the US Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) have signed an updated memorandum of understanding (MoU) regarding...more
FMI supervision: BoE policy statement on fees regime for 2020/21 - The Bank of England (BoE) has published a policy statement on the fees regime for the supervision of financial market infrastructure (FMI) that will apply...more
Open-ended funds: FCA and BoE review survey on liquidity mismatch - On 26 August 2020, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) updated its COVID-19 webpage to announce that it has launched a joint survey with the Bank of...more
Recent regulatory developments of interest to financial institutions and markets. Includes the extension of the senior managers regime to benchmark administrators, updates relating to MiFID II, EMIR, ESMA's draft guidelines...more
Partners Julia Smithers Excell and Stuart Willey, and associate Laura Kitchen of global law firm White & Case take a deep dive on the latest publications from EU and UK regulators aimed at providing supervisory clarity on the...more
The Bank of England has published the "Dear CEO" letter that it has sent to the Chief Executive Officers of EU CCPs, central securities depositaries and payment systems that are currently designated under the EU Settlement...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Publishes Information Notice Regarding Enhancements to the Disclosure Review Process Relating to Public Financial Records - On May 18, the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) published...more
Key developments in March 2017: 1 March - The FCA published its Consultation Paper on "Reforming the availability of information in the UK equity IPO process" (CP17/5). The CP proposes a package of policy measures...more
In this newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset managers and...more