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Outline CRR III / CRD VI - Final Basel III Standards

Mayer Brown on 6/21/2024

I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more

CRD VI cross-border rules take shape

A&O Shearman on 1/26/2024

Final provisions on cross-border banking services in the EU published - CRD VI will bring in uniform minimum prudential requirements for third country branches providing banking services in the EU and, more importantly,...more

European Banking Authority Publishes Advice on EU Implementation of Basel III

A&O Shearman on 8/14/2019

The European Banking Authority has published several documents setting out its advice to the European Commission on the impact and implementation in the EU of the Basel III 2017 reforms. On December 7, 2017, the Basel...more

Financial Stability Board Delays Implementation Deadlines for Minimum Haircut Standards for Uncleared SFTs

A&O Shearman on 8/5/2019

The Financial Stability Board has extended the implementation timelines for its recommendations on securities financing transactions, in particular those on minimum haircut standards for uncleared SFTs. SFTs involve the use...more

European Banking Authority to Provide Technical Advice on Implementation of Final Basel III Reforms

A&O Shearman on 5/23/2018

The European Banking Authority has announced that the European Commission had requested technical advice on implementing the final Basel III reforms into EU law. The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published the final...more

Legal and regulatory issues adversely affecting banks in Trade and Supply Chain Finance

Sullivan & Worcester on 7/28/2017

Following a meeting of the Basel committee in March this year, the Chairman Stefan Ingves, announced that the committee has made further progress towards the finalization of the Basel III accord are stricter capital rules and...more

European Parliament Adopts Resolution on Finalization of Basel III

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 12/1/2016

On November 23, 2016, the European Parliament published a provisional version of the text of the resolution it has adopted on finalization of Basel III. Among other things, in the resolution, the Parliament: - ...more

Econ Vote on Resolution on Basel III Revisions

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 11/16/2016

On November 10, 2016, the European Parliament published a press release on a vote taken by its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs (“ECON“) in relation to revisions to Basel III, which are currently under consideration...more

Amendments to the Basel Securitisation Framework – Alternative Capital Treatment for Simple, Transparent and Comparable...

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 8/4/2016

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”) published an updated version of the “Basel III Document – Revisions to the securitisation framework” on 11 July 2016 (the “Amended Securitisation...more

Out of the Shadows and Into the Light

Morrison & Foerster LLP on 12/28/2012

For the last four years, regulators and law makers have been focusing extraordinary efforts on ensuring that financial regulation is adequate to protect the financial system from risks emanating from the banking sector....more

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