WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
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
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
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
The European Banking Authority has published a no-action letter in response to the European Commission's postponement of the application of the revised market risk framework, also known as the Fundamental Review of the...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
31 July - ESG: The European Commission adopted a Commission Delegated Regulation, setting out the first set of European Sustainability Reporting Standards (“ESRS”), together with a Q&A (see press release). The ESRS specify...more
The European Commission has published a proposed Regulation on digital operational resilience within the financial services sector in the EU. This will replace and harmonise existing guidance in relation to ICT and security...more
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