Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....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
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
EU CRR: Corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation containing ITS on reporting requirements for market risk - A corrigendum to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/453 containing implementing technical...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 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 EU has, on 6 November 2019, published in the Official Journal a delegated regulation (the “Delegated Regulation”) supplementing the EU Securitisation Regulation (the “Securitisation Regulation”) with regard to regulatory...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
Regulatory Technical Standards under the EU Securitization Regulation on the conditions for a securitization to be considered "homogenous" have been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. Homogeneity is one...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
The European Banking Authority has published final draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the specification of the nature, severity and duration of an economic downturn in accordance with the Capital Requirements Regulation....more
A Commission Implementing Regulation supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Implementing Regulation amends the existing Implementing Regulation...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, which supplements the Capital Requirements Regulation with Regulatory Technical Standards on the assessment methodology to be...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation on Regulatory Technical Standards for the materiality threshold for credit obligations past due has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The Delegated Regulation...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation setting out Regulatory Technical Standards for the disclosure of encumbered and unencumbered assets has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union...more
The European Banking Authority has published a report and final draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the disclosure of encumbered and unencumbered assets. The final draft RTS will supplement the Capital Requirements...more
The European Banking Authority published a consultation paper on the specification of the nature, severity and duration of an economic downturn under the Capital Requirements Regulation. The CRR requires firms to use loss...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation in the form of Regulatory Technical Standards for benchmarking portfolio assessment standards and assessment-sharing procedures was published in the Official Journal of the European Union....more
The European Banking Authority published a letter, dated December 23, 2016, in which it requests an extension of time from the European Commission for delivering certain draft technical standards which were due to be...more
The European Banking Authority published a Report and the final draft Regulatory Technical Standards under the Capital Requirements Regulation on the assessment methodology national regulators should use when a firm applies...more
The European Banking Authority published an updated Report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 instruments and standardized templates for AT1 instruments. This follows a consultation in July 2016...more
On 11 July 2016, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published a draft of its second Report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 (“AT1”) instruments of EU institutions. The Report was undertaken pursuant to Article 80...more
A Commission Delegated Regulation was published in the Official Journal of the European Union correcting two Commission Delegated Regulations under the Capital Requirements Regulation and Capital Requirements Directive. The...more