WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
The first half of 2025 brought significant developments in the regulation of digital and cryptoassets in the UK and EU. In this half-year update, we review these and look ahead to likely developments in the UK and EU in the...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) Germany - Bundesbank: Updated directories of credit institutions and their associations in Germany on banking related information (Aktualisiertes...more
The European Commission (EC) has adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (No 575/2013) (CRR), containing regulatory technical standards (RTS) of the conditions and indicators that the...more
March 24, 2025- Federal Reserve Board Governor Michael S. Barr gave a speech entitled, “Helping Small Businesses Reach Their Potential,” at the Aspen Institute. March 24, 2025- The Federal Reserve Bank of New York...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a consultation on proposed regulatory technical standards (RTS) under the EU's 2024 anti-money laundering (AML) package. The AML package consists of a Regulation on the...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a discussion paper on fees to validate pro forma models under the revised European Market Infrastructure Regulation (known as EMIR 3). EMIR 3 requires that counterparties...more
February 25, 2025- The Financial Deposit Insurance Corporation released the Quarterly Banking Profile for Q4 2024 with reports from 4,487 commercial banks and savings institutions insured by the FDIC which reported a...more
On 29 January 2025, the EU Commission published a Competitiveness Compass for the EU. President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen, announced that Europe must fix its weaknesses (alluding the a persistent gap in...more
January 8, 2025- The Federal Reserve released the minutes of the Federal Open Market Committee meeting that was held on December 17–18, 2024. January 8, 2025 - Federal Reserve Board Governor Christopher J. Waller gave a...more
December 18, 2024- The Federal Open Markets Committee decided to lower the target range for the federal funds rate by 1/4 percentage point to 4-1/4 to 4-1/2 percent. The Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System...more
November 20, 2024 - The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled, “Oversight of Prudential Regulators.” The Committee heard testimony from: The Honorable Michael Barr, Vice Chairman for...more
The European Banking Authority published its 2025 European Resolution Examination Programme report. The report sets three priorities for resolution authorities and banks for 2025 and looks at the progress achieved in 2023,...more
I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more
May 31, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of the Currency jointly issued updated host state loan-to-deposit ratios that are used to evaluate compliance...more
January 17, 2024- U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs Ranking Member Tim Scott (R-S.C.) led a letter to the Federal Reserve, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, and Office of the Comptroller of...more
On 14 February 2023, the European Banking Authority (the “EBA”) published its final report on draft regulatory technical standards (“Final RTS”) specifying the criteria for the underlying exposures in STS securitisations to...more
December 8, 2022- U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown (D-OH), Chairman of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs, and U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA), Ranking Member of the Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and...more
October 3, 2022- The Financial Stability Oversight Council held a meeting on October 3, 2022 where it unanimously approved its Report on Digital Asset Financial Stability Risks and Regulation....more
September 29, 2022- The U.S. Treasury's Financial Crimes Enforcement Network issued a final rule establishing a beneficial ownership information reporting requirement, pursuant to the bipartisan Corporate Transparency Act....more
The European Banking Authority (the EBA) recently published a consultation paper with proposed amendments to the regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the homogeneity of the underlying exposures in securitisation, following...more
On 28 July 2022, the European Banking Authority (the “EBA”) published a Consultation Paper on draft regulatory technical standards (“RTS”) specifying the criteria for the underlying exposures in on-balance-sheet STS...more
The European Commission has launched a targeted consultation on a possible digital euro. The EU is considering introducing a digital euro for retail payments, which would be available alongside cash. A decision has not yet...more
The European Banking Authority is consulting on draft Regulatory Technical Standards to amend the existing RTS on strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication under the EU Payment...more
Future framework for regulation of UK financial services: Treasury Committee report - The House of Commons Treasury Committee has published its Fifth Report of Session 2021-22 on the future framework for regulating financial...more
Das Thema nachhaltige Finanzierung (Sustainable Finance) nimmt weiter an Fahrt auf und steht Anfang 2021 erneut im Fokus: diesseits des Atlantiks ist zum 10. März 2021 die EU-Offenlegungsverordnung in Kraft getreten, nach der...more