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Sanctions Compliance: Regulators Set Their Sights on Fintechs
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The Standard Formula Podcast | Insurers in Difficulty: Staying Compliant Under Solvency II
Fintech Focus Podcast | Managing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
Fintech Focus Podcast | Growing a Workforce in a Regulated Environment
The Standard Formula Podcast | Dissecting the Solvency Capital Requirement
The Standard Formula Podcast | Investment Rules for Insurers and Reinsurers
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The Standard Formula Podcast | Understanding the UK’s Matching Adjustment Regime
The Standard Formula Podcast | Group Supervision Under Solvency II
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The Standard Formula Podcast | Developments on the Horizon for the UK Change-in-Control Regulatory Regime
JONES DAY TALKS®: Class Actions Worldview Guide: Part 1–The United States and European Union
Season 2 Episode 5- Defense Trade Down Under
Cornerstone Research Connects: The CAT Judgment in Trucks
The Standard Formula Podcast | The Edinburgh Reforms: Big Bang 2.0 or Thoughtful Change?
Life with GDPR - The ABB Enforcement Action from a UK Perspective
Life with GDPR - Changes to UK Data Protection Regime
Life with GDPR - Clearview AI Fine by the ICO
Undertakings in difficulty, in the context of Solvency II, refers to insurers that are either failing or likely to fail to meet their solvency capital requirement (SCR) or their minimum capital requirement (MCR) (together,...more
“The Standard Formula’s” Rob Chaplin once again gives listeners a look at how to address some of the intricacies of Solvency II. In this episode, he is joined by Feargal Ryan for a discussion on how insurers should navigate...more
Solvency II is organised around three core pillars of prudential regulation, which ensure the safety and soundness of (re)insurers, in line with the scale, nature and complexity of their business: - Pillar One focuses on...more
The Situation: Prior to the enactment of Capital Requirements Directive ("CRD") VI, corporate governance rules for the financial services industry were not harmonized across EU Member States....more
On 17 July 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) finalized revisions to the prudential framework for banks’ exposures to cryptoassets. The revisions largely introduced additional requirements relating to the...more
This article, updated quarterly, looks ahead to the areas expected to be prioritised by financial services regulators across the globe; we look at the key regulatory trends emerging from the past year which inform our...more
The PRA has released an important statement on its approach to funded reinsurance. Our view is that the statement endorses the conceptual principle that funded reinsurance (particularly to offshore counterparties) should best...more
There are two main methods of calculating the solvency capital requirement (SCR) under Solvency II, the “standard formula” and “internal model” methods: (a) The standard formula method, as its name suggests, is the default...more
The Situation: The European Union ("EU") banking legislation has been substantially reviewed and provides notably for a new regime applicable to cross-border activities from non-EU jurisdictions....more
The Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR) is designed to protect policyholders by helping ensure that insurers can survive difficult periods and pay claims as they fall due. It prescribes a specific level of capital that an...more
“The value of technical provisions should correspond to the amount which another insurance or reinsurance undertaking (the reference undertaking) would be expected to require to take over and fulfil the underlying insurance...more
What is the government proposing? The UK government (“HM Treasury”) has launched a Consultation setting out its proposals to amend the UK special resolution regime (“SRR”) to direct that the UK depositor guarantee scheme...more
Own funds is the Solvency II term for the items that constitute a (re)insurer’s regulatory capital. These are principally balance sheet items, with limited allowance for off-balance sheet items. Own funds are items that...more
The UK’s banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) has published a Discussion Paper (DP3/23) covering securitisation bank capital in the context of: (1) the Basel 3.1 output floor and capital requirements...more
The Bank of England released a report titled Climate-Related Risks and the Regulatory Capital Framework (Report) on March 13, 2023. The Report expands on the Bank’s 2021 Climate Change Adaptation Report (CCAR), in which it...more
The EU has surged ahead of the UK and the US in implementing the Basel III standards. The EU Banking Package has been reviewed by the Council of the EU and is now expected to be negotiated with the European Parliament, ahead...more
Open banking: CMA consultation on future governance - The Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) is consulting on the future governance of open banking. In order to implement open banking, the CMA required the nine largest...more
On June 4, the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) published its response to a consultation on remuneration guidelines previously published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) on March 4. The draft guidelines...more
In This Issue: - Meeting of the SEC Advisory Committee on Small and Emerging Companies - FINRA Requests Comment on a Proposed Rule to Require Delivery of an Educational Communication to Customers of a Transferring...more