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Mansion House: PRA consults on adjustments to its Basel 3.1 market risk framework

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HM Treasury (HMT) and the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) have published updates with proposed changes to the expected implementation of Basel 3.1. The changes relate to delaying the implementation of the new...more

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Mansion House: Bank of England measures to maintain a fit for purpose resolution regime

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The Bank of England (BoE) has published a suite of publications in its capacity as the UK′s resolution authority, covering significant updates in relation to its approach to setting the minimum requirement for own funds and...more

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Global Moves, Digital Shifts, July 2025 - UK Government Announces Programme of Regulatory Reforms

On July 15th, the UK Government published the final version of its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy aims to “[roll] back regulation that had gone too far in seeking to...more

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UK PRA publishes policy statement on amendments to UK capital buffers framework

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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its final policy statement in relation to amendments being made to the UK framework on capital buffers. Together with the Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential...more

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BoE publishes two new stress test scenarios for 2025 Bank Capital Stress Test

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The Bank of England (BoE) has updated its stress testing webpage, announcing it has published two stress test scenarios for use by banks and building societies that are not participants in its concurrent stress testing...more

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2024 Trends in SRT Transactions

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Significant risk transfer transactions or SRTs are one of the fastest growing corners of the financial markets. In this update, the opening of the US market, increasing international regulatory scrutiny and updates to the UK...more

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Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Finalizes Various Technical Amendments to the Basel Framework

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The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a document on the finalization of various technical amendments to the Basel framework. The amendments relate to: (i) the definition of specialized lending in the...more

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UK Prudential Regulation Authority Policy Statement on the April Occasional Consultation Paper

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The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has published a policy statement to its occasional consultation paper (CP6/24). The statement provides feedback to responses the PRA received to the consultation paper, as well as the...more

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UK Government consults on new rules to recapitalise small banks in resolution – What does this mean for potential buyers of...

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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

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The UK’s Model Risk Management Principles for Banks

Against a background of increasing reliance on models and scenario analysis to assess future risks, the UK’s bank regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”), has published a supervisory statement on “Model risk...more

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Bank of England Issues Updated Assessment of Climate-Related Risks and Regulatory Capital Requirements for Financial Institutions

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

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Banking and finance regulatory news, June 2021

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Resolution assessments: PRA PS10/21 on amendments to reporting and disclosure dates - Following its consultation in CP19/20, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement, PS10/21, on...more

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Banking and finance regulatory news, March 2021 # 3

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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

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Banking and finance regulatory news, October 2020 # 2

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COVID-19: PRA letter to credit unions and direction modifying minimum provisioning requirements - On 7 October 2020, the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a letter to directors of credit unions on...more

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Amendments to the Basel Securitisation Framework – Alternative Capital Treatment for Simple, Transparent and Comparable...

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (the “Basel Committee”) published an updated version of the “Basel III Document – Revisions to the securitisation framework” on 11 July 2016 (the “Amended Securitisation...more

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