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The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published discussion paper DP1/25 inviting views on potential reforms to the internal ratings based (IRB) approach to credit risk for residential mortgage exposures. The PRA...more
On July 15th, the UK Government published the final version of its Financial Services Growth and Competitiveness Strategy (the Strategy). The Strategy aims to “[roll] back regulation that had gone too far in seeking to...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its final policy statement in relation to amendments being made to the UK framework on capital buffers. Together with the Capital Buffers and Macro-prudential...more
The Council of the EU and the European Parliament have announced they have reached a political agreement on the legislative package to reform the crisis management and deposit insurance framework for banks in the EU. The...more
On June 23, the Federal Reserve Board announced that reputational risk will no longer be a component of its bank-examination program. The same day, the Board released a revised edition of its Guidelines for Rating Risk...more
The Bank of England (BoE) has published a feedback statement in response to its December 2024 discussion paper on transitioning to a repo-led operating framework. The discussion paper proposed changes to the Sterling Monetary...more
The first four months of 2025 proved busy for the UK’s financial regulators, with both the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) publishing their strategy and business plan documents. As...more
PRA and FCA proposals to simplify bankers’ remuneration rules would relax certain key restrictions on bankers’ variable pay, giving banks more flexibility in remuneration design and improving their recruitment potential....more
On March 28, the Fed released a report titled “Outlining and Measuring the Benefits of Risk Sensitivity in Bank Capital Requirements” evaluating the integration of risk regarding bank capital requirements. The report asserted...more
The European Commission (EC) has launched a consultation to help determine the best approach for the application of the EU's framework on market risk prudential requirements for banks, with an accompanying press release. Last...more
Amongst the broad range of updates this week, at international level, the FSB published its thematic peer review on MMF Reforms and the BCBS published the outcomes of its meeting held on 28 and 29 February, including that it...more
On 28 September, HM Treasury (the Treasury) and the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published consultation papers on the proposed near-term reforms to ring-fencing measures... The Treasury also published its response to...more