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ESAs launch joint consultation on draft guidelines for ESG stress testing

A&O Shearman on 7/10/2025

The European Supervisory Authorities (the European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority) have launched a joint consultation on their joint...more

EBA peer review report on the performance of stress tests by deposit guarantee schemes

A&O Shearman on 4/16/2025

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report on the findings of a peer review of the performance of stress tests by deposit guarantee schemes (DGS). The aim of the peer review was to assess the performance of...more

Bank of England 2025 bank capital stress test launched

A&O Shearman on 4/2/2025

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

European Banking Authority Launches Consultation on Guidelines on ESG Scenario Analysis

Latham & Watkins LLP on 1/20/2025

The draft guidelines outline expectations for institutions to adopt forward-looking strategies and incorporate scenario analysis into their management framework to assess resilience against the negative impacts of ESG...more

Key COVID-19 FAQs for financial institutions: A Cross-border view (Updated)

White & Case LLP on 7/23/2020

Our global team has prepared the following FAQs to provide financial institutions with a cross-border perspective in navigating the governmental/regulatory response to the COVID-19 pandemic. Financial institutions...more

EU Proposals to Amend the EU-Wide Stress Test Framework for Banks

A&O Shearman on 2/6/2020

The European Banking Authority has commenced a consultation on proposed changes to the EU-wide stress test framework for banks. The EU-wide stress test contributes to improving the financial resilience of banks. Responses to...more

Basel Committee on Banking Supervision Publishes Updated Stress Testing Principles

A&O Shearman on 10/25/2018

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision has published a final version of its Stress Testing Principles, which replace its 2009 Principles for Stress Testing and Supervision. The Basel Committee conducted a review of the...more

Basel Committee Consults on Revised Principles for Supervisory and Bank Stress Testing

A&O Shearman on 1/12/2018

The Basel Committee on Banking Standards has published proposals on a revised version of the stress testing principles it first published in 2009. The revisions to the principles are the outcome of a review of its current...more

Your Daily Dose of Financial News

Robins Kaplan LLP on 12/8/2017

The UK and EU made a significant breakthrough early this morning to “unlock” Brexit divorce negotiations. The still-rough agreement would see Britain repaying $53 billion and addressed in at least vague terms thorny issues...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 11/10/2017

European Commission Inception Impact Assessment on Legislative Proposal for EU Framework on Crowdfunding - On October 30, 2017, the European Commission published an inception impact assessment for a legislative proposal...more

Timing for EU 2018 Stress Test Announced

A&O Shearman on 3/8/2017

The European Banking Authority announced that the 2018 EU stress test would be launched at the beginning of 2018 and results would be published mid-2018...more

Orrick's Financial Industry Week In Review

Orrick, Herrington & Sutcliffe LLP on 2/17/2017

Financial Industry Developments - Class Action Against Lending Club and WebBank Headed to Defeat - On Monday, January 31, 2017, a federal district court in the Southern District of New York granted a motion to...more

Financial Regulatory Developments Focus - December 2016

A&O Shearman on 12/21/2016

In this week's newsletter, we provide a snapshot of the principal US, European and global financial regulatory developments of interest to banks, investment firms, broker-dealers, market infrastructure providers, asset...more

Corporate and Financial Weekly Digest - Volume XI, Issue 45

Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP on 11/21/2016

SEC/CORPORATE - SEC Division of Corporation Finance Issues Revised and Additional C&DIs Relating to Form S-8 - On November 9, the Division of Corporation Finance of the Securities and Exchange Commission issued two...more

Results of EU Stress Test Published

A&O Shearman on 8/19/2016

The European Banking Authority published the results of the EU-wide stress test. The stress test covered 51 EEA banks and assessed the resilience of the EEA banking sector to adverse financial conditions...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.30.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/30/2016

US banks made a strong showing in part 2 of the latest round of the Fed’s stress tests. Only Morgan Stanley didn’t pass unconditionally (concerns over the company’s “internal controls and processes” tripped it up), while the...more

Your daily dose of financial news - The Brief – 6.29.16

Robins Kaplan LLP on 6/29/2016

Big financial firm stress test results are out from the Fed later today, and though all banks proved up to the task of reserving enough capital (as reported last Friday), the economic downturn simulation that’s part of round...more

EU-wide Stress Tests Launched by EBA

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 3/1/2016

The EBA has published a methodological note and the macroeconomic scenarios for the 2016 EU-wide stress test for banks. The stress test is designed to provide supervisors, banks and other market participants with a common...more

EBA Announces Details of 2016 EU-Wide Stress Test

Orrick - Finance 20/20 on 11/12/2015

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published on November 5, 2015 its EU-wide stress test and draft methodology for discussion. The stress-test exercise to be carried out in 2016 will assess a sample of banks covering...more

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