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The European Banking Authority (EBA) recently published a consultation paper (Consultation) that proposes to expand third-party risk management requirements for certain EU-regulated financial entities. The Consultation would...more
Solvency II is organised around three core pillars of prudential regulation, which ensure the safety and soundness of (re)insurers, in line with the scale, nature and complexity of their business: - Pillar One focuses on...more
On the 22 November 2022, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published its final Guidelines on the use of remote customer onboarding solutions for credit and financial institutions (the “Remote Onboarding Guidelines”). ...more
The financial services regulations relating to outsourcing by Luxembourg-headquartered financial institutions have been significantly simplified by the introduction of the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier...more
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the two linked trends of financial institutions transferring their IT infrastructure to the cloud and selling their self-owned data centres in order to lease back only the reduced space...more
The final guidelines create new obligations for insurers that will impact cloud outsourcing arrangements. On 6 February 2020, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published its final...more
Subcontractors, security, and audit and termination rights will require special consideration under forthcoming EBA outsourcing guidelines. Recent growth in divestiture and carve-out deals in the M&A landscape, including...more
From September 30, 2019, new guidelines on outsourcing arrangements (Guidelines) issued by the European Banking Authority (EBA) will apply to all outsourcing arrangements entered into, reviewed or amended on or after this...more
New guidelines reflect the rise of outsourcing by financial institutions in a new era of disintermediation and technological change. In February 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its final guidelines on...more
The guidelines create new obligations for financial, payment, and electronic money institutions that will impact cloud outsourcing and deployment of FinTech. On 25 February 2019, the European Banking Authority (EBA)...more
The European Banking Authority has published revised Guidelines on outsourcing arrangements. The guidelines are intended to update and replace outsourcing guidelines issued in 2006 (by the EBA's predecessor, the Committee of...more
European financial institutions (competent authorities, credit institutions, and investment firms as defined in EU Regulation No. 575/2013, collectively Institutions) have been instructed to comply with the European Banking...more
The European Banking Authority has published its final report on Recommendations on outsourcing by financial institutions to cloud service providers. The EBA has developed the Recommendations on its own initiative as part of...more