In this issue:

- Bank Prudential Regulation & Regulatory Capital

- Regulatory Capital Tool for Securitization Exposures

- European Banking Authority Reports on Implications of Regulatory Reforms for Banks’ Business Models

- Implementing Technical Standards under CRR

- European Central Bank Recommends Dividend Distribution Policies for Significant Eurozone Banks

- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Releases Additional Technical Assistance Video on Consumer Financial Protection Bureau Mortgage Rules

- European Securities & Markets Authority Sets Out Work Plan for Supervision of Credit Rating Agencies

- Commodity Futures Trading Commission Issues No-Action Relief from Electronic Reporting Requirements in the Ownership & Control Final Rule

- Securities and Exchange Commission Publishes Final Rules Regarding Security-Based Swap Data Repositories

- European Securities & Markets Authority Sets Out Work Plan for Supervision of Trade Repositories

- G20 Communiqué and FSB Update on Financial Reforms

- European Securities & Markets Authority Advice under the European Social Entrepreneurship Funds and European Venture Capital Funds Regulation

- People

- Events

- Excerpt from Regulatory Capital Tool for Securitization Exposures -

On February 13, 2015, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the FDIC and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency announced that they have developed an automated tool to aid financial institutions subject to the agencies’ regulatory capital rules in calculating risk-based capital requirements for individual securitization exposures. This tool is not a part of the regulatory capital rules or a component of regulatory reporting, and financial institutions may use the tool solely at their own discretion. Specifically, institutions that use the rules’ Simplified Supervisory Formula Approach to calculate risk-based capital requirements for securitization exposures may use the tool to calculate capital requirements for such exposures...