The International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) has announced the launch of a new alert portal, which is aimed at strengthening the global fight against retail investment fraud...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Standards and International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on streamlining variation margin processes and initial margin responsiveness of margin models in...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published its final report on the evolution in the operation, governance, and business models of exchanges. The Report focuses on equity exchanges, but IOSCO...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published its final report on post trade risk reduction services. The report highlights potential policy considerations and risks associated with the using and...more
Welcome to the first edition of our Horizon Scan for 2024: key recent and expected funds, regulatory and tax developments to look out for. As before, we focus on the most important developments and changes that we expect to...more
Stepping into a breach that finds the United States without a comprehensive cryptocurrency framework while the EU is about to implement its own cryptocurrency framework this July (called Markets in Crypto Assets or MiCA,...more
Earlier this month, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) released draft policy recommendations to support greater regulatory and oversight consistency within the crypto and digital assets markets....more
On March 30, 2023, the UK government announced the publication of its 2023 green finance strategy, updating its earlier 2019 strategy, which is intended to mitigate climate-related risk and damage while increasing the amount...more
The last week has seen a number of announcements or statements from financial regulators calling for more oversight of crypto-assets, particularly stablecoins. Federal Reserve Vice Chair Lael Brainard gave a speech,...more
UK SMCR forms: PRA PS1/21 - Following consultation, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS1/21, on updates to forms relating to the Senior Managers and Certification Regime (SMCR or...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a report on the progress its member jurisdictions have made in 2019 on the implementation of agreed G20 reforms to over-the-counter derivatives markets. The report finds that there...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a progress update on its ongoing work to tackle market fragmentation. The update follows the FSB’s June 2019 Report on Market Fragmentation, which explored the link between market...more
The 2008 credit crisis was the beginning of an era of unprecedented government management of the capital markets. July 21, 2015 marked the fifth anniversary of the hallmark congressional response, the Dodd-Frank Wall Street...more
Where do we go from here? As we mark another milestone in regulatory reform with the fourth anniversary of the enactment of the Dodd-Frank Act, it strikes us that although most studies required to be undertaken by the Act...more
On September 4, ESMA published the translation of guidelines and recommendations on implementing the principles for financial market infrastructures in respect of central counterparties (i.e., clearing houses) published by...more
On September 2, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and the Board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) jointly published a document...more