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In January 2019, the EU introduced its current regulatory framework for securitisations, seeking to improve transparency, robustness, and market confidence following the global financial crisis. Market participants have...more
Vlad Maly and Michal Chajdukowski present the key takeaways from a package of amendments to the existing EU securitization framework, published by the European Commission on June 17, 2025. The proposals aim at...more
The European Commission published its proposals for amendments to the EU Securitisation Regulation on 17 June 2025. These proposals are of significant importance for securitisation market participants....more
Key takeaways The securitisation market stands on the brink of long-needed transformation - an opportunity too important to miss. The European Commission's package of securitisation reforms helpfully addresses some key...more
On 17 June the European Commission published its long-awaited legislative proposals for reviving the European securitisation market (the proposals). This is a significant and wide-ranging package of reforms, aimed at reducing...more
Following the start of development work on an accelerated procedure for the regulatory recognition of significant risk transfer ("SRT") securitisations last year, the European Central Bank ("ECB") published guidance addressed...more
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
Matt Bisanz interviews Georges Duponcheele of MunichRe and William Perraudin of Risk Control Ltd. about their work in developing approaches to securitization capital requirements....more
The UK’s banking regulator, the Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) has published a Discussion Paper (DP3/23) covering securitisation bank capital in the context of: (1) the Basel 3.1 output floor and capital requirements...more
On July 27, 2023, the US banking regulators issued a notice of proposed rulemaking (the “NPR”) to revise significantly the risk-based capital requirements applicable to large banks and to banks with significant trading...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
On 7 July 2023, the European Commission (“EC”) approved the text of a delegated regulation supplementing the EU Securitisation Regulation (the “EUSR”) regarding regulatory technical standards on risk retention (the “RR RTS”)....more
Banking organizations looking to reduce the amount of risk-based regulatory capital required to support residential mortgage loan portfolios can use synthetic securitization to convert the capital treatment of their exposures...more
Key Points - The European Commission (“EU Commission”) has published its report on the functioning of the EU Securitisation Regulation which contains the EU Commission’s assessment of a number of key aspects of the...more
The updated Basel III framework is the principal response of the Basel Committee to the global financial crisis. The updated framework makes wide-ranging changes to the perceived shortcomings of the previous regime. Although...more
On April 12, 2022, the European Banking Authority (the “EBA”) issued a press release announcing the publication of its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (“RTS”), setting out the requirements for originators, sponsors...more
On 16 December 2020, the Council of the European Union published final compromise proposals for a package of measures dubbed the “Capital Markets Recovery Package”, these were adopted by the European Parliament’s Committee on...more
As discussed in our previous Clients and Friends Memo (the “First Update”), on 24 July 2020 the European Commission (the “Commission”) published proposed amendments to the current securitisation framework set out in...more
A recent report, entitled “A New Vision for Europe’s Capital Markets” (the “Report”), sets out some key recommendations for how the EU securitisation market can be scaled up. The Report has been published by the High Level...more
The EU has, on 6 November 2019, published in the Official Journal a delegated regulation (the “Delegated Regulation”) supplementing the EU Securitisation Regulation (the “Securitisation Regulation”) with regard to regulatory...more
The European Banking Authority has launched a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the conditions to allow institutions to calculate capital requirements, including on expected loss, arising from...more
Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 laying down a general framework for securitisation and creating a specific framework for simple, transparent and standardised securitisation ("Regulation") came into force on 18 January 2018 and will...more
A continuation of the market trends from last year can be expected in 2018. Structured finance and securitization markets had a period of relative calm in 2017 as new regulations were incorporated into transactions. While no...more
As part of the Capital Markets Union action plan announced in September 2015, the European Parliament and the Council issued on Dec. 12, 2017, the regulation laying down a general framework for securitization and creating a...more
The European Banking Authority has launched a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards on risk retention requirements for originators, sponsors and original lenders under the new EU securitization framework for...more