Directive 2024/1619 (CRD VI) will (among other things) establish a new and more prescriptive EU regulatory regime for EU branches of non-EU banks. New harmonised licencing, authorisation, capital, liquidity, booking, and...more
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No. 10 and Saving Provisions) Regulations 2025 have been made. The Regulations serve to implement legislative changes required in relation to the Mansion House reforms...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
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has published a consultation on the regulatory framework for the Private Intermittent Securities and Capital Exchange System (PISCES), the proposed new platform for trading shares in...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published the final version of its guidelines for counterparty credit risk management, replacing its "Sound Practices for Banks' Interactions with Highly Leveraged Institutions"...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has published its final policy statement and statement of policy relating to the definition of an Interim Capital Regime firm and an ICR consolidation entity. The policy statement...more
The Bank of England has updated its approach to stress testing the U.K. banking system. From 2025 onwards, the BoE will move from an annual to a biennial frequency for its main bank capital stress test...more
The Bank of England has published the final report on its system-wide exploratory scenario. The SWES was a 'system-wide' exercise, incorporating a wide range of financial firms and business models, focusing not on the...more
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a report on the range of practices in implementing a positive neutral countercyclical capital buffer. The CCyB aims to ensure that banking sector capital requirements...more
HM Treasury has published the Prudential Regulation of Credit Institutions (Meaning of CRR Rules and Recognised Exchange) (Amendment) Regulations 2024, together with an explanatory memorandum....more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) EU - ESRB: Speech on old and new frontiers of the ESRB: Systemic risk, non-banks and data analysis - Status: Final - The ESRB has published a speech by...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has published a consultation paper on the restatement of the remaining provisions of the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation. The consultation paper sets out the PRA's proposals to...more
HM Treasury has published a policy statement on the treatment of overseas investment exchanges for the purposes of the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation. HM Treasury initially proposed to expand the definition of...more
HM Treasury has published a policy update to confirm its legislative approach for applying the "FSMA model" to the assimilated EU capital requirements regime under the U.K. Capital Requirements Regulation and Capital Buffers...more
The Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 (Commencement No 7) Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/891) have been made. The Regulations revoke certain instruments listed in the Financial Services and Markets Act 2023 relating to...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority has published a policy statement on the leverage ratio treatment of omnibus account reserves and minor amendments to the leverage ratio framework. PRA rules require firms to exclude from...more
Commission Implementing Regulation 2024/1618 amending Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/763, laying down implementing technical standards on supervisory reporting and public disclosure of MREL and TLAC, has been published in...more
UK regulators have recently announced a number of reforms for banks and other financial institutions. - On 23 November 2023, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) (together,...more
On 14 March 2023, the PRA launched a consultation on the Deductions for Non-Performing Exposures (Revocations) (CRR) Instrument 2023 to remove the current Common Equity Tier 1 (“CET1”) deduction requirement for NPEs that are...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
COVID-19: FCA statement on regulatory treatment of Recovery Loan Scheme - The FCA has published a statement on the regulatory treatment of the UK Recovery Loan Scheme (RLS), which was launched on 6 April 2021 as part of the...more
Recent regulatory developments of interest to most financial institutions, including updates from the UK government, PRA, FCA, JMLG and the European Commission. See also our sector specific updates in the Related Materials...more
28 June 2021 is the deadline for UK Financial Holding Companies ("FHC") and Mixed Financial Holding Companies ("MFHC") to submit their application for approval or exemption under the UK's implementation of the Capital...more
Resolvability Assessment Framework: BoE Dear CEO letter The Bank of England (BoE) has published a letter sent by Dave Ramsden, BoE Deputy Governor for Markets and Banking, to the CEOs of the eight UK banks in the scope of the...more
Capital buffers: PRA modification by consent - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a direction for modification by consent of 5.1 - 5.3 and 5.5 of the Capital Buffers Part of the PRA Rulebook....more