The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a consultation on proposed revisions to its guidelines on internal governance under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The revisions form part of the EBA's broader roadmap...more
Antitrust enforcers remained active across the globe, with the announcement by the FTC and DOJ of proposed guidelines that have an emphasis on tech mergers in the United States, and several investigations of major tech deals...more
The Situation: On June 3, 2020, the European Securities Market Authority ("ESMA") published a consultation paper on Outsourcing to Cloud Service Providers ("Proposed Guidelines"), which will apply to any institution under the...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a consultation on proposed guidelines on securitization repository data completeness and consistency thresholds. The proposed guidelines would apply to EU...more
The European Securities and Markets Authority has published a consultation paper on proposed guidelines on the compliance function requirements that are set out in the revised Markets in Financial Instruments package. The...more
The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which revised and sought to ensure greater harmonization of the European Union’s data protection framework, took effect in May 2018. Among the changes it introduced was the...more