Podcast — UK FinReg Focus Areas in 2025: Wholesale Markets
Brexit & Financial Services: Preparing for the End of the Transition Period
This note discusses the European Banking Authority’s (EBA’s) report, published on July 23, 2025, which addresses whether and when EU non-bank entities should be allowed to deal with locally unregulated non-EU banks. In some...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
Regulation (EU) 2019/2033 on the prudential requirements of investment firms and Directive (EU) 2019/2034 on the prudential supervision of investment firms (collectively, "IFR/IFD Framework") significantly change the...more
What is it? The EU has finalised and issued a new framework for the prudential regulation of investment firms. It will set new classification for investment firms that will in turn determine which of the new capital...more
Following consultation in late 2017, the European Securities and Markets Authority and European Banking Authority have jointly published final Guidelines on the assessment of the suitability of members of management bodies...more
Financial Industry Developments - CTFC Approves Re-Proposal of Position Limits Regulation - On December 5, 2016, the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission ("CFTC") unanimously approved to re-propose rules that...more
The European Banking Authority published final draft Implementing Technical Standards on the common procedures, forms and templates for the consultation process between the relevant national regulators when carrying out the...more