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Nota Bene Episode 102: Examining European Union State Aid in the Face of COVID and Brexit with Jacques Derenne and Robert Klotz
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Directive (EU) 2024/1654 has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, amending Directive (EU) 2019/1153 regarding access by competent authorities to centralized bank account registries through the...more
In the current economic climate, it is important that lenders understand how they can enforce security and debt claims, to help in assessing options in the event of default by their customers, and when structuring new...more
The Directive (EU) 2021/2167 sets out a harmonized regulatory framework for services in relation to non-performing loans and has to be implemented by Member States by 29 December 2023. In Germany, the draft bill of the Credit...more
Prince Charles, Prince of Wales, delivered the Queen’s speech in which he announced that the government will be introducing the so-called Brexit Freedoms Bill, which was first announced by Prime Minister Boris Johnson on...more
Ahead of the end of the Brexit transition period, on 31 December 2020, regulators in the UK and the EU have issued a number of updates: Share trading obligation - In relation to the potential conflict between the share...more
Equivalence decisions for EEA states, green finance and fintech initiatives are at the forefront of the UK government’s priorities. On 9 November 2020, the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, delivered a statement...more
Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 on the prudential requirements of investment firms and Directive (EU) 2019/2034 on the prudential supervision of investment firms (collectively, "IFR/IFD Framework") significantly change the...more
Current rules fall short of providing a clear framework for a single European market for fintech companies. The development of a single market for fintech has recently been placed at the center of the EU financial...more
The open banking requirements under the Payment Services Directive (EU) 2015/2366 (“PSD2”) are now in force, under which an account servicing payment service provider (“ASPSP”) must grant an authorised third party service...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has opened two consultations on revisions to the Basel III Pillar 3 disclosure requirements, one related to market risk disclosures and one on sovereign exposures disclosures....more
The European Banking Authority has published the second in a series of three opinions on the implementation of the Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive in the EU. This opinion relates to DGS payouts. The first opinion related...more
A U.K. statutory instrument has been published to further the U.K.'s financial services legislation preparations in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The statutory instrument – the Financial Services (Electronic Money, Payment...more
A draft U.K. statutory instrument to onshore into U.K. law, post-Brexit, the revised Capital Requirements Regulation (known as CRR II) has been published – the Capital Requirements (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 (2019...more
Los Estados Miembros deben trasponer la Directiva sobre Requisitos de Capital V antes del 28 de diciembre de 2020. El 7 de junio de 2019, el Diario Oficial de la UE publicó el texto de la Directiva sobre requisitos de...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published an overview report on the Pillar 2 supervisory review process and on the different practices that regulators and legislators in Basel member jurisdictions have adopted...more
The European Commission has published a report on progress made in Europe since the publication of "The Five Presidents' Report" of 2015, in which five of the EU's key figures set out their agenda for deepening the EU's...more
The European Central Bank, together with those national central banks that have adopted the Euro (collectively known as the Eurosystem), has launched a consultation on proposals for a harmonized European system for issuing...more
The pending EU risk reduction package is highly relevant for the whole EU banking sector. It addresses the capital provisioning required by banks to facilitate potential resolution measures by resolution authorities if a bank...more
The new framework should simplify the path for issuers seeking to market European covered bonds to investors in the US. Key Points: ..The new framework will create minimum product and technical standards for covered...more
The proposed directive aims to prevent the excessive build-up of NPLs on European banks’ balance sheets. Background - The Council of the European Union (the Council) recently approved its position1 on the proposal for...more
On 8 April 2019, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a third party report into the impact on competition of syndicated lending (the “Report”). Although there has not been significant competition law...more
The upcoming enforcement of the MREL requirement will require European banks to issue a significant amount of subordinated and senior notes. But political instability and differing levels of investor demand could push up...more
The law decree lays down a temporary regime for regulated firms in a no-deal Brexit scenario. On 20 March 2019, the Italian Council of Ministers approved a law decree laying down urgent measures to ensure financial...more
NPLs are a hot topic, high on the European supervisory authorities' agenda. Legislative and prudential requirements to reduce NPLs are rapidly evolving. In March of 2018, the EC published a package of reforms aimed at...more
Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing) (Amendment) Bill 2019 - The Government of Ireland approved the general scheme of drafting of the Criminal Justice (Money Laundering and Terrorist Financing)...more