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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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PRA Phase 1 of Pillar 2A review

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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

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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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PRA Dear CFO letter: prudential expectations on significant risk transfer financing

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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

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UK FPC consults on increase to O-SII buffer thresholds

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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

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The Standard Formula: Encyclopaedia of Prudential Solvency – Chapter 1: The IAIS and the ICS

Established in 1994, the International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS) is a voluntary membership organisation comprising insurance regulatory authorities, central banks, ministries of finance, and other...more

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UK Prudential Regulation Authority writes to domestic and international banks on its 2025 supervisory priorities

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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

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UK delays the implementation of Basel 3.1

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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

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UK Banking and Insurance Regulation Update

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

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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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Bank Capital Standards for Cryptoasset Exposures Under the Basel Framework

On 17 July 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) finalized revisions to the prudential framework for banks’ exposures to cryptoassets. The revisions largely introduced additional requirements relating to the...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

The PRA’s Expectations for Funded Reinsurance: How To Comply

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

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Putting It All Together: A Brief Guide to the UK’s New Securitisation Framework

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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

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Global Regulators React to Banking Sector Turbulence

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The spring of 2023 saw more dislocation in the global financial sector than any time since the 2008-09 financial crisis. In the US, banking institutions with over $500 billion in total assets failed, and other banks that were...more

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From Basel (III) to Brussels: no direct train service for securitisation capital requirements

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The EU has surged ahead of the UK and the US in implementing the Basel III standards. The EU Banking Package has been reviewed by the Council of the EU and is now expected to be negotiated with the European Parliament, ahead...more

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Open Finance: The Next Frontier in Fintech?

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Call for input: Industry needs to engage as the FCA moves forward on its transformative vision for open finance. Imagine a world in which you could access your bank accounts, credit cards, mortgage, pensions, savings...more

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The New EU Law on Intermediate Holding Companies for Third-Country Banking Groups

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Non-EU banking groups (“non-EU groups”) with large EU operations will be required to establish an EU intermediate parent undertaking (“IPU”) according to the final changes to the Capital Requirements Directive (“CRD 5”)...more

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A&O Key Regulatory Topics: Weekly Update 17 August 2018 – 23 August 2018

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BREXIT - No-deal Brexit: banking, insurance and other financial services technical notice - On 23 August, the UK government published guidance on the effect on banking, insurance and other financial services if the UK...more

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Bank of England Confirms its Approach to Setting Internal MREL in Groups

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The Bank of England has published a Policy Statement setting out its feedback to the responses it received to its October 2017 consultation on its approach to setting a minimum requirement for own funds and eligible...more

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Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Federal Reserve Seeks Comments on LIBOR Alternatives - On August 24, 2017, the U.S. Federal Reserve requested public comments on a plan for the New York Federal Reserve and the Office of Financial Research to come up with...more

Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft LLP

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

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

EU Bonus Cap: EBA Publishes Guidelines on Sound Remuneration Policies and Separate Opinion on Proportionality

The EU Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) went into effect on January 1, 2014. The CRD introduced what is commonly referred to in the European Union as a “bonus cap” on individual variable remuneration when paid to...more

Morrison & Foerster LLP

BRRD – The UK’s Approach to MREL

The Bank of England (“BoE”) recently published a consultation paper1 (“Consultation”), detailing its approach to setting a minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (“MREL”) to be maintained by UK banks and...more

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP

British Bankers’ Association Response to European Banking Authority Remuneration Consultation

On June 4, the British Bankers’ Association (BBA) published its response to a consultation on remuneration guidelines previously published by the European Banking Authority (EBA) on March 4. The draft guidelines...more

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP

"European Union Banking Reform Update"

By the end of this year, the European Commission will present its legislative proposals for EU banking structural reform. Once the proposals are implemented, EU banks will have to separate their “investment” business from...more

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