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Welcome to the Regulation Round Up, a regular bulletin highlighting the latest developments in UK and EU financial services regulation....more
April 8, 2025 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Acting Chair Travis Hill gave a speech entitled “View from the FDIC: Update on Key Policy Issues” at the American Bankers Association Washington Summit....more
March 31, 2025 - The Federal Reserve Board published a working paper entitled “The Evolution of Inflation Targeting from the 1990s to 2020s: Developments and New Challenges.”...more
January 21, 2025 - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Acting Chair Travis Hill issued a statement on the FDIC’s priorities in the coming weeks and months....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
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
December 4, 2024- The U.S. House Committee on Financial Services held a hearing entitled “Innovation Revolution: How Technology is Shaping the Future of Finance.”...more
The Financial Stability Board has published a letter sent to the G20 leaders ahead of their meeting on November 18, 2024, together with the FSB 2024 annual report...more
December 2, 2024 - Ahead of a hearing to examine how technology is shaping the future of finance, the Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, Patrick McHenry (NC-10), and Ranking Member Maxine Waters (CA-43)...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) International - FSB: 2024 list of global systemically important banks - Status: Final - The FSB has published a 2024 list of global systemically...more
November 12, 2024 - The Federal Reserve Board published the results of the Senior Loan Officer Opinion Survey on Bank Lending Practices for October 2024. November 12, 2024- The Federal Reserve Board published a working...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
Many governments are grappling with the question of how to regulate artificial intelligence to ensure it is adopted safely and used responsibly without hampering innovation. Governments have generally indicated similar...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 European Banking Authority has published its final draft Implementing Technical Standards amending the Implementing Regulation on the benchmarking of credit risk, market risk, and IFRS9 models for the 2025 exercise....more
The European Commission has adopted the Commission Implementing Regulation amending the Implementing Technical Standards laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1799 as regards the mapping tables specifying...more
The European Banking Authority has finalized its draft implementing technical standards on public disclosures by institutions that implement the changes in the Pillar 3 disclosure framework introduced by the third Capital...more
September 20, 2023- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation Chairman Martin J. Gruenberg addressed The Exchequer Club in Washington, DC on the financial stability risks of nonbank financial institutions....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
January 30, 2023- The U.S. House of Representatives passed several pieces of bipartisan financial services legislation. Among the bipartisan bills passed are initiatives to combat the financial exploitation of seniors and...more
January 12, 2023- Subcommittees of the House Financial Services Committee, as well as their respective Chairs and jurisdiction for the 118th Congress, were announced. January 11, 2023- Republican Committee members...more
October 18, 2022- The Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation adopted a final rule to increase initial base deposit insurance assessment rate schedules uniformly by 2 basis points beginning in the first quarterly assessment...more
July 21, 2022- The U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs held a hearing entitled, "Priced Out: The State of Housing in America."...more