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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) has released a horizon-scanning report examining the interconnections between banks and non-bank financial intermediaries (NBFIs)...more
The Bank of England's Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has published its July financial stability report alongside the record of its 27 June meeting. After assessing the risks to the UK financial system, the FPC reports that...more
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published the results of its latest survey on credit terms and conditions in euro-denominated securities financing and over-the-counter (OTC) derivatives, with a press release. The survey...more
The Financial Markets Standards Board (FMSB) has published a spotlight review on ways to improve uncleared margin for OTC derivatives, along with a press release. It builds on findings from the Bank of England's Post-Trade...more
The Financial Policy Committee (FPC) of the Bank of England (BoE) has published the Financial Stability in Focus report on AI in the UK financial system. The FPC considers the potential benefits of AI with its growing...more
HM Treasury has launched a consultation that sets out proposals for enhancing the Special Resolution Regime by introducing a new means for the Bank of England, as the U.K. resolution authority, to use stabilization powers to...more
UK Financial Insights from Katten is a monthly newsletter highlighting key noteworthy developments potentially affecting financial markets and funds in the UK and Europe....more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority, Prudential Regulation Authority and Bank of England have jointly published their revised Complaints Scheme, which governs how complaints against the U.K. regulators should be made and...more
The London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) will stop being published on the basis of panel bank quotes and will be replaced by alternative replacement rates after today. In the spirit of the season, below is the commencement...more
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA“) has published its Business Plan for 2023/23 setting out its strategic priorities and anticipating its new, secondary objective to facilitate international competitiveness and...more
On the 6 December 2022, the Financial Conduct Authority ("FCA") published its consultation on a financial promotion approvals gateway. The consultation paper (CP22/27) considers how the gateway will operate, including how the...more
This blog has a keen (some might say unhealthy) interest in good faith. If you share this affliction, then please make some time for a paper that the Financial Markets Law Committee has put together on the topic....more
HM Treasury has announced the appointment of Ashley Alder as Chair of the U.K. Financial Conduct Authority. Mr Alder will succeed interim chair Richard Lloyd, who has served as interim Chair since Charles Randell stepped down...more
On July 20, the Financial Services and Markets Bill (the “Bill”) was introduced in the UK’s House of Commons (“HoC”). This first formal stage in the legislative process (called the “first reading”) does not allow for debate...more
The House of Commons Treasury Committee has announced the creation of a new sub-committee that will scrutinize financial services regulatory proposals and has published a report setting out the approach that Parliament will...more
HM Treasury has published a summary of responses to its consultation on the U.K. funds regime. The consultation forms part of the U.K. Government's plans to make the U.K. a more attractive location for asset management....more
Following its July 2020 consultation, HM Treasury has published a consultation response on its proposals to amend the U.K.'s financial promotion rules. These include changes to subject unregulated crypto-assets to the...more
The Bank of England has written to the CEOs of all regulated U.K. financial market infrastructures notifying them that they are no longer expected to discuss prospective shareholder distributions with the BoE....more
HM Treasury has launched a consultation, the Financial Services Future Regulatory Framework Review: Proposals for Reform. The consultation paper presents the government's response to the feedback received to the October 2020...more
The European Supervisory Authorities have launched a call for evidence on the EU's Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation. The PRIIPs Regulation requires manufacturers of PRIIPs to produce a...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
As both lenders and borrowers in the financial industry are well aware, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) of the United Kingdom publicly announced in 2017 that it would no longer compel financial institutions comprising...more
Goldman Sachs is reportedly in negotiations with federal prosecutors to resolve claims about its role in the Malaysian 1MDB scandal for upwards of $2 billion. A settlement—which “could include a guilty plea from Goldman’s...more
Fiat Chrysler and rival Peugeot have agreed to binding merger terms that, if approved by US and European regulators, would create a “$50 billion auto giant that would rank among the world’s largest car companies by sales”....more
We managed to miss Jobs Report Friday because of the holiday break, so here’s the lowdown on a very strong set of numbers—224,000 jobs added—and the seemingly incongruous market reaction to the good news (it’s all about the...more