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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a final report with amending guidelines in respect of Guidelines EBA/GL/2019/04 on ICT and security risk management. The EBA reviewed the Guidelines in light of the Digital...more
January 16, 2025- The U.S. Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs held a hearing on the nomination of Mr. Eric Scott Turner, to be Secretary, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development....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 EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) becomes binding on 17 January 2025. As the compliance deadline approaches, EU financial regulators (ESAs) have issued a flurry of statements on the act, including: - An...more
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) establishes a harmonised and comprehensive framework for information and communication technology (ICT) risk management in the financial sector. It is a directly applicable EU...more
November 13, 2024 - Assistant Secretary for Economic Policy Eric Van Nostrand gave remarks on U.S. business investment in the post-COVID expansion. November 13, 2024 - The Office of Financial Research published a brief...more
October 16, 2024 - New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) issued new guidance to assist regulated entities in addressing and combating cybersecurity risks arising from artificial intelligence....more
Long IT sub-contracting chains can make it hard for financial institutions to understand the vulnerabilities in their IT estate and the location of key functions (where these may be located in entities who do not have a...more
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) regulation is part of the European Union’s (EU) strategy to enhance the overall stability of the EU financial system by ensuring that financial entities are resilient to digital...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 Prudential regulation - The ESRB has published a speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB and Chair of the ESRB, on its first general warning about financial stability risks that it published...more
Partners Niall Esler and Shane Martin, along with senior associate Conor Daly and trainee solicitor Coleen Wegmann, have authored the Ireland chapter for Global Legal Insights Fintech 2023. They provide an up-to-date summary...more
The EBA has launched a consultation on two RTS and ITS on the functioning of supervisory colleges under the CRD. These new technical standards will ensure that the Level 2 framework for the functioning of supervisory colleges...more
ECB in focus is our blog dedicated to the banking supervisory activities of the European Central Bank (ECB). We report on key developments in European banking regulation led by the ECB as part of the Single Supervisory...more
December 13, 2022- State bank supervisors have appointed New York State Department of Financial Services Superintendent Adrienne A. Harris to serve as the state banking supervisor's representative on the Financial Stability...more
October 6, 2022- U.S. Secretary of the Treasury Janet L. Yellen announced that Treasury has signed a loan agreement for the Clean Technology Fund—a multilateral trust fund which helps to scale up low carbon technologies in...more
ANTITRUST AND COMPETITION - The European Commission Reviews Its Informal Guidance Notice - On 24 May 2022, the European Commission (Commission) launched a public consultation to gather feedback from interested parties on the...more
June 30, 2022- The Task Force on Financial Technology held a hearing entitled, "Combatting Tech Bro Culture: Understanding Obstacles to Investments in Diverse-Owned Fintechs."...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published its draft guidelines on outsourcing to cloud service providers on June 3. Steven Maijoor, the chair of ESMA, indicated that the purpose of the guidelines is to...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has issued a statement confirming its intended approach to enforcing firms' compliance with EU "strong customer authentication" rules that will apply across the EU from September 14, 2019....more
The European Banking Authority has published an Opinion on market approaches to payment authentication that will be deemed compliant with the new rules on strong customer authentication coming into force later this year....more
Antitrust and Competition - Transactions in the digital sector and acquisition of data continue to attract scrutiny in Europe - On 6 September 2018, the European Commission cleared without conditions the proposed acquisition...more
ECB Publishes Opinion on Proposed Regulation Amending EBA Regulation - The European Central Bank ("ECB") published an opinion (CON/2018/19) (dated April 11, 2018) on a proposed Regulation amending (among other things) the...more
Payment service providers operating in the EU must take note of new risk management requirements from the European Banking Authority. The European Banking Authority’s operational and risk management guidelines apply to all...more
Brexit - Brexit – PRA letter to HoC Treasury Committee on firms' contingency planning - On 9 August, the HoC Treasury Committee published a letter (dated 2 August) from Sam Woods, BoE Deputy Governor, Prudential...more