Banking Sector, Compliance, Capital Markets

FCA publishes review of liquidity risk management at wholesale trading firms

A&O Shearman on 3/17/2025

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published observations on good and poor liquidity risk management practices from its multi-firm review of wholesale trading (sell-side) firms in scope of the Investment Firms...more

How Regulation W Affects Subscription Credit Facilities

Mayer Brown on 1/8/2025

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY - Section 23A of the Federal Reserve Act and its implementing regulation, Regulation W, impose restrictions on banks concerning “covered transactions” with their affiliates. With the increasing...more

Israeli Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority Issues New and Revised Circulars

Barnea Jaffa Lande & Co. on 8/14/2024

The emerging risks in the financial services market and the inception of the Regulation of Payment Services and Payment Initiation Law prompted the Capital Market, Insurance and Savings Authority (CMISA) to amend a series of...more

Banking Bites - July 2022

BCLP on 7/14/2022

Welcome to Banking Bites! This is our short summary flagging key developments in the UK that we hope will inform your activities in your market. This edition covers...more

Panic of 1907 and Compliance Expertise on the Board

Thomas Fox - Compliance Evangelist on 9/26/2019

I recently listened to the Great Courses series of lectures, entitled Crashes and Crisis: Lessons form a History of Financial Disasters, hosted by Professor Connel Fullenkamp. It was so entertaining that this week I am...more

Securitisation: Keeping it Simple?

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP on 10/2/2015

On 30 September 2015, the European Commission (the “Commission”) published a proposal for a regulation (the “Proposed Regulation”)1 intended to harmonise existing EU laws applying to securitisations (including proposed...more