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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published three consultation papers under Directive 2013/36 (CRD IV), as amended by Directive 2024/169 (CRD VI), relating to the regulatory requirements for third country branches...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a consultation paper proposing amendments to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 on the timing for the application for prior permission to reduce own funds and...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a consultation paper on its draft guidelines on ancillary services undertakings (ASUs) specifying the criteria for the identification of activities referred to in Article...more
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
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published two consultation papers under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), as amended by the revised Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR III). The first consultation paper...more
The Single Resolution Board (SRB) has published updated operational guidance, accompanied by a press release, on the solvent wind-down (SWD) of trading books. The guidance is intended to outline the scope and key expectations...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued its final guidelines, accompanied by a press release, on the treatment of acquisition, development and construction (ADC) exposures to residential property under Article 126a of...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper (CP12/25) setting out Phase 1 of its Pillar 2A review. This first phase review seeks to address the consequential impact of the near-final PRA...more
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
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a Dear CFO letter outlining its prudential expectations regarding practices related to illiquid and structured financing portfolios. The PRA focuses on significant risk...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its 2024 Reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises. Both reports are mandated by Article 78 of the Capital Requirements Directive to assist...more
The UK Financial Policy Committee (FPC) has published its consultation paper on increasing the current capital buffer thresholds which apply to other systemically important institutions (O-SIIs). The thresholds are part of...more
On March 28, the Fed released a report titled “Outlining and Measuring the Benefits of Risk Sensitivity in Bank Capital Requirements” evaluating the integration of risk regarding bank capital requirements. The report asserted...more
The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation to help determine the best approach for the application of the EU's framework on market risk prudential requirements for banks, with an accompanying press release. Last...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has launched the 2025 bank capital stress test for the seven largest and most systemic UK banks and building societies. The exercise is the successor to the Annual Cyclical Scenario. The test...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
The Prudential Regulation Authority has published a Dear CEO letter outlining its supervisory priorities for 2025 for domestic banks and international banks and large investment firms. The PRA's key areas of focus for 2025...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority has announced that, in consultation with HM Treasury, it has decided to delay the implementation of Basel 3.1 in the U.K. by one year until January 1, 2027. The PRA explains that it has...more
The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority ("PRA") has recently published various statements regarding its current approach to its regulation of banking in the UK, including delaying implementation of Basel 3.1 rules....more
The European Commission has adopted a Delegated Regulation amending the EU Capital Requirements Regulation with regard to the date of application of the own funds requirements for market risk. In addition, alongside the...more
The PRA has released an important statement on its approach to funded reinsurance. Our view is that the statement endorses the conceptual principle that funded reinsurance (particularly to offshore counterparties) should best...more
Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1085 has been published in the Official Journal of the European Union, supplementing the EU Capital Requirements Regulation with regard to regulatory technical standards on the...more
The new securitisation framework will combine three sets of overlapping rules, in an effort to repeal and replace retained EU law in the UK. The missing piece of the puzzle to the UK’s new securitisation framework became...more
What is it? The EU has finalised and issued a new framework for the prudential regulation of investment firms. It will set new classification for investment firms that will in turn determine which of the new capital...more
The European Banking Authority has published several documents setting out its advice to the European Commission on the impact and implementation in the EU of the Basel III 2017 reforms. On December 7, 2017, the Basel...more