1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) EU - EBA: Updated methodology on the regulatory and supervisory equivalence of non-EU countries - Status: Final - The EBA has published its updated...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Standards and International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on streamlining variation margin processes and initial margin responsiveness of margin models in...more
The Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a final report on examples of effective practices for streamlining variation margin in centrally...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a report on a targeted implementation review on principles for the regulation and supervision of commodity derivatives markets. In October, IOSCO...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published its final report on post trade risk reduction services. The report highlights potential policy considerations and risks associated with the using and...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a consultation report on pre-hedging. The report assesses potential conduct and market integrity issues associated with the practice of pre-hedging. IOSCO...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has launched a new roadmap for retail investor online safety. The strategic initiative aims to safeguard retail investors worldwide from fraud, excessive risk, and...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a report on transition plan disclosures. The report sets out how transition plan disclosures can support the objectives of investor protection and market...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has published a consultation report on its proposed revised recommendations for liquidity risk management for collective investment schemes. The Liquidity Risk...more
The International Organization of Securities Commissions has finalized a report on promoting the financial integrity and orderly functioning of the Voluntary Carbon Markets. The final report includes a set of 21 good...more
There's been a flurry of regulatory activity in the UK and Europe over the past few weeks. Here's a look at the highlights. The EU has renewed its determination that the solvency regime for US-headquartered insurers and...more
ESMA has submitted its proposals for RTS supplementing ELTIF 2.0 to the European Commission - The RTS detail stringent conditions on liquidity and redemption provisions including in principle maximum quarterly redemption...more
Welcome to the third edition of our Horizon Scan, where we focus on some of the principal recent and expected developments and changes that we expect to be of interest to those in the private funds and investment management...more
The NY Climate Week conference took place during the week of 18 September 2023, bringing together international leaders from business and governments. During the conference the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial...more
Welcome to the UK Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
An evolving landscape of reforms in the ESG ratings sector continues to pose challenges to providers of ratings and scores. International momentum to regulate ESG ratings continues as the European Commission released a...more
In May 2023, the board of the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published its Policy Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets Consultation Report, which proposes 18 policies it plans to...more
On May 23, 2023, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions launched a consultation on proposed policy recommendations for crypto and digital asset markets. IOSCO is proposing that the final recommendations,...more
31 January - The European Supervisory Authorities (“ESAs”) published a joint consultation paper (JC 2022 76) on the system established by the ESAs for the exchange of information relevant to the assessment of the fitness...more
With a new operational resilience framework in force in the UK and similar reforms proposed in the EU and the US, we examine how the regimes compare and their practical impact on financial services firms....more
Talks during the third day of COP 27 focused on climate finance. Here’s what business leaders need to know to keep up-to-date on event proceedings...more
1.1 ESMA UCITS Q&A updates On 20 July 2022, ESMA published an updated version of its UCITS Q&As with the following new Q&As: Section X: Depository – new Q&As 7 and 8 on reconciliations; and - • Section XIII: Delegation...more
EU simple, transparent, and standardised (STS) securitisations may be recognised as STS for the purposes of the UK Securitisation Regulation if they are designated as STS under the EU Securitisation Regulation regime before...more