1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - Bundesbank: Updated directories of credit institutions and their associations in Germany on banking related information (Aktualisiertes...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a consultative document on updating the principles for the management of credit risk. The principles, first issued in October 2000, provide guidelines for...more
In response to global uncertainty the Bank of England’s Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has further delayed the implementation of the Basel 3.1 standards in the UK to 1 January 2027. This delay comes just four months...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: Plenary December 2024 - Status: Final - The FSB has set out the outcomes of its Plenary that met on 3 and 4 December. Points of...more
In this bulletin, we consider the current state of the EU, U.K. and U.S. markets for credit risk transfer (“CRT”) transactions, with a particular focus on the fund finance market. For a more in-depth introduction to this...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a consultation on technical amendments on the hedging of counterparty credit risk exposures. The interpretative issues addressed relate to the circumstance where a bank...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - BReg: Government draft on the Second Future Financing Act (Regierungsentwurf zum zweiten Zukunftsfinanzierungsgesetz) Status: Draft - The...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 Prudential regulation - The ESRB has published a speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB and Chair of the ESRB, on its first general warning about financial stability risks that it published...more
On July 6, 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (“Basel Committee”) released proposed revisions to its core principles for effective banking supervision (the “Revised Principles”). The Revised Principles are...more
The financial crisis of 2008 demonstrated that the then-existing financial regulatory system was in need of substantial repair. By any measure, the financial regulatory reform that has followed has been extensive. In areas...more