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UK & European Financial Services M&A: Sector Trends H2 2023 | H1 2024 - 3 key drivers of bank M&A: - Arrival of long-awaited mammoth consolidation deals: Italy’s UniCredit and Spain’s BBVA sound the charge. - “Challenger”...more
Long IT sub-contracting chains can make it hard for financial institutions to understand the vulnerabilities in their IT estate and the location of key functions (where these may be located in entities who do not have a...more
The Council of the European Union and European Parliament have reached provisional political agreement on the latest revisions to the European Market Infrastructure Regulation, publishing on February 14, 2024, the agreed text...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
In this quarter's edition of the legal and regulatory report, we include a number of key outputs from ESMA, including its updates to Q&As on the application of the AIFMD and the UCITS Directive (outlined at sections 1.2 and...more
The European Banking Authority (“EBA”) has published its final report on amendments to its guidelines on improving resolvability under the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (2014/59/EU) (BRRD)....more
The European Commission has published its long-delayed report to the European Parliament and Council of the EU on the application of the Payment Accounts Directive (PAD). The findings are generally positive and no legislative...more
Key developments in June 2022: 30 June - The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published a consultation paper (CP22/11) on winding down synthetic sterling LIBOR and USD LIBOR. The Bank of England (“BoE”)...more
Federal Agencies- Federal Reserve Board- Beige Book - June 1, 2022- The Federal Reserve Board published its June 2022 Beige Book....more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. 28 February - The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) published Handbook Notice...more
Recent changes to the Securitisation Regulation allow eligible servicers in the EU to retain the 5% net economic interest in traditional securitisations of non-performing exposures (NPEs). The European Banking Authority (EBA)...more
The European Banking Authority has published final draft Implementing Technical Standards on Pillar 3 prudential disclosures of environmental, social and governance risks under the EU Capital Requirements Regulation. The ITS...more
Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation. ...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“BCBS”) published a report jointly with the World Bank setting out the findings from a global survey on proportionality in banking regulation and supervision....more
UK Securitisation Regulation: HM Treasury review HM Treasury has published a call for evidence to inform its review of the retained EU law version of the EU Securitisation Regulation (UK Securitisation Regulation or "Sec...more
On March 10, 2021, a host of provisions came into effect as part of the European Union’s (“EU”) Regulation on Sustainability‐Related Disclosures in the Financial Services Sector (the “Sustainable Finance Disclosure...more
The European Banking Authority has confirmed that it will phase out its Guidelines on legislative and non-legislative payment moratoria in accordance with its September 30, 2020 deadline. The EBA originally published the...more
The European Banking Authority has published a survey designed to collect information on large banks' disclosure practices on environmental, social and governance risks. The EU Capital Requirements Regulation implements the...more
The European Commission has published a draft Delegated Regulation designed to amend existing Delegated Regulation (EU) No 876/2013, which supplements the European Market Infrastructure Regulation with regards to changes to...more
PRA PS20/20: response to CP3/20 occasional paper - Following its March 2020 occasional consultation paper (CP3/20), the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS20/20, setting out its...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a final report and final draft Regulatory Technical Standards to further postpone the securities settlement discipline rules under the Central Securities...more
EU Regulatory Technical Standards postponing the implementation deadline of the settlement discipline regime under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation have been published in the Official Journal of the European...more
The European Banking Authority has published guidance on the impact on supervisory reporting and disclosure of the EU's CRR Quick Fix adjustments, which were made in response to COVID-19. The CRR Quick Fix introduced changes...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has announced that it is preparing new Regulatory Technical Standards to further postpone the securities settlement discipline rules under the Central Securities Depositories...more
The European Banking Authority has published an updated work program as part of its response to the coronavirus pandemic...more