Regulators Tackle Board Effectiveness and Overdrafts
The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has published observations on good and poor liquidity risk management practices from its multi-firm review of wholesale trading (sell-side) firms in scope of the Investment Firms...more
1. Repos in the Islamic market - In our article titled "Repos in Islamic Finance"1 we concluded that Shari'ah-compliant repurchase transactions ("Repos") could play a useful role as a liquidity management instrument to...more
Selected regulatory updates of interest to the funds and asset management sector. This edition reports on UCITS liquidity risk management and the EU MMF Regulation. ...more
Recent regulatory developments of interest to insurers and their intermediaries. Includes updates relating to COVID-19, Solvency II, and more....more
The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for November has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. ...more
First published on January 1, 1986, the London Interbank Offering Rate (“LIBOR”), has been the dominant reference rate for most adjustable-rate financial products since nearly the same time. Due to interest rate manipulation...more
The Hogan Lovells’ Corporate Insurance Newsletter for September has been published. This provides a round-up of UK, EU and international regulatory developments relevant to UK based insurance market participants. ...more
The U.K. Financial Conduct Authority has launched a consultation on illiquid assets and open ended funds, following responses from stakeholders to a discussion paper it issued early in 2017. After observing the impact of...more
Key Points - - All managers of SFC authorised funds (including overseas managers of SFC authorised funds) are required to enhance internal liquidity risk management processes and procedures in order to implement...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority published a consultation paper on its proposed approach to Pillar 2 liquidity requirements for intraday risk, debt buyback and non-margined derivatives, including a proposed policy...more