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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published consultation paper CP3/26 setting out proposed amendments to the PRA Rulebook to accommodate HM Treasury's (HMT) planned overseas prudential requirements regime...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published an updated webpage for banks, building societies and investment firms, notifying it has published an updated Branch Return Excel form and schema to align with changes...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published discussion paper DP1/26, outlining its proposed reforms to banking regulatory data under the Future Banking Data (FBD) programme. The FBD programme aims to deliver...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has issued a Dear CFO Letter setting out information on the third resolvability assessment framework (RAF) assessment. The assessment will evaluate firms' overall ability to meet the three...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published final policy statement PS1/26 on the implementation of the Basel 3.1 standards in the UK, together with associated supervisory statements, statements of policy and...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a final policy statement PS4/26, finalising the simplified capital regime and additional liquidity simplifications for small domestic deposit takers (SDDTs) and SDDT...more
Ring-fencing was a key component of the UK’s response to the financial crisis of 2008–2009. As has been widely acknowledged, subsequent regulatory reforms in banking regulation (in particular, those relating to capital,...more
On 3 December 2025, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) published its (i) Policy Statement (PS25/25) entitled Enhancing banks' and insurers' approaches to managing climate-related risks – Update to SS3/19 (“PS”)...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a new webpage outlining its expectations of firms' when including interim or year‑end profits in Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital. Under Article 26(2), Chapter 3...more
The UK Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA) has sent a letter to the Prime Minister providing an update on measures taken to align regulation with its economic growth objectives. The PRA confirms completion of four out of...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published policy statement PS27/25 following its September consultation setting out proposals to delete certain regulatory reporting requirements for banks, building societies...more
The Bank of England's (BoE) Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has published a Financial Stability in Focus report, revisiting its assessment of bank capital requirements. The FPC now judges that the appropriate benchmark for...more
On 3 December 2025, the PRA published Policy Statement 25/25 (PS25/25), finalising proposals from CP10/25 and introducing Supervisory Statement 4/25 (SS4/25). This replaces SS3/19 and sets out updated expectations on how...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published policy statement PS22/25, confirming changes to the retail deposits threshold for the UK leverage ratio requirement. Following feedback on its March consultation, the...more
In Supervisory Statement SS31/15, the UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) updates banks and the large investment firms it supervises on its expectations for their Internal Capital Adequacy Assessment Process...more
This briefing, which is relevant to the prudential treatment of securitisations in general (traditional and synthetic) by UK PRA regulated banks, covers the securitisation-related content of PRA Policy Statement 19/25 (PS...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published near-final policy statement PS18/25, confirming its intention to retire the refined methodology to Pillar 2A capital requirements. ...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published near-final policy statement PS19/25, setting out its approach to restating remaining provisions of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) into the PRA Rulebook and...more
HM Treasury has announced the launch of a new Scale-up Unit jointly led by the FCA and the PRA. Initially focused on dual regulated firms (banks/building societies and insurers), plans to expand the unit's scope to solo...more
The PRA and FCA have finalised major reforms to the UK bankers’ remuneration regime, unlocking significant flexibility for banks from 16 October 2025, while reinforcing individual accountability....more
The regulators have tweaked the final rules in places to grant more flexibility to firms. On 15 October 2025, the PRA and the FCA published their joint Policy Statement on reform of the remuneration rules for banks (PRA...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a Dear CFO letter to selected deposit-takers providing thematic feedback from its review of written reports from auditors of UK-headquartered banks and building...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a consultation paper proposing the partial revocation of the UK Technical Standard (UKTS) 2018/1624 on resolution reporting, specifically relating to COREP13 templates. The proposal...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper CP21/25, proposing changes to streamline regulatory reporting for banks as part of its Future Banking Data project. The proposals include: (i)...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published discussion paper DP1/25 inviting views on potential reforms to the internal ratings based (IRB) approach to credit risk for residential mortgage exposures. The PRA...more