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The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority (“PRA”) has published its final rules and policies in relation to its approach to supervising branches and subsidiaries of international banks headquartered, or part of a group based,...more
The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a policy statement on the identification and management of step-in risk (PS5/25). The policy statement provides feedback on responses to consultation paper (CP) 23/23...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published its Business Plan 2025/26 which sets out the workplan for and regulatory initiatives to advance its strategic priorities. This year's business plan is said to reflect...more
January 7, 2025 - The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau finalized a rule that will remove an estimated $49 billion in medical bills from the credit reports of about 15 million Americans....more
UK financial regulators recently published their supervisory expectations for critical third party service providers (CTPs) to the financial sector under the United Kingdom’s new regime extending regulatory oversight to CTPs....more
The FCA, PRA, and Bank of England have published their finalised critical third party (CTP) rules (and accompanying guidance) in PS24/16 Operational resilience: Critical third parties to the UK financial sector....more
The new regime will take effect on 1 January 2025, but will not diminish the responsibilities of financial services firms relying on the services of critical third parties....more
The UK financial services regulators, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), have recently set out their final policy on the assessment of acquisitions and increases in control of PRA...more
The following is a brief update on significant changes to the United Kingdom’s securitisation framework following publication of the final revised securitisation rules by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and the...more
On 30 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published a policy statement (PS24/4) setting out its final firm-facing rules relating to securitisations and summarising feedback to its earlier consultation for the UK...more
Firms will need to update their internal procedures and ensure they are ready to comply with the new requirements ahead of 1 November 2024. HM Treasury (HMT), the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), and the Prudential...more
As discussed in our previous updates, in June 2020 the UK government announced a wide-ranging review of the Solvency II framework in the UK, aimed at reforming the insurance regulatory framework inherited from the EU given...more
On November 23, 2021, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (the “OCC”), the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (the “FDIC”) and the Federal Reserve Board (the “Prudential Regulators”) exercised their collective...more
Following their consultation earlier this year, the Bank of England and the Prudential Regulation Authority have finalized the new Resolvability Assessment Framework. The Framework comprises: (i) the BoE's approach to...more
BROKER-DEALER - FINRA Proposes Data Service for Corporate Bond New Issues - The Financial Industry Regulatory Authority (FINRA) has filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission a proposed rule change to establish a...more
The FCA and the PRA have published their Policy Statements, setting out final rules on the SMCR regimes for insurers and FCA solo-regulated firms. Key Points: ..The FCA has announced that the extended SMCR will apply to...more
The Prudential Regulation Authority published a Policy Statement and final rules on buy-outs of deferred variable remuneration, i.e., where a firm compensates a new employee for deferred variable remuneration not received...more
On May 24, 2016, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC”) in a much anticipated action approved the issuance of final rules (“Final Rules”) regarding the cross-border application of its uncleared swaps margin...more
On December 16, 2015, the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (“CFTC” or “Commission”) adopted final rules to impose margin requirements on uncleared swaps entered into by swap dealers and major swap participants subject to...more
The US prudential regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, the Comptroller of the Currency, the Farm Credit Administration and the Federal Housing Finance Agency)...more
Federal banking regulators (Prudential Regulators) have finalized much-anticipated rules (Final Rules) relating to initial and variation margin requirements for certain swaps and security-based swaps that are not centrally...more
On October 22, the US prudential regulators (the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve, Comptroller of the Currency, Farm Credit Administration and Federal Housing Finance Agency)...more
On October 6, 2015, the UK Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) issued final rules formalizing whistleblower procedures to be implemented by certain banks, building societies, credit unions, investment firms, and insurance and...more
In October 2014, the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Securities and Exchange Commission, the Federal Housing...more
Editor’s Note: Spotlight on the Credit Risk Retention Rule: The OCC, Federal Reserve Board, FDIC, SEC, FHFA and HUD announced the adoption of a joint final rule (the Rule) to implement the credit risk retention...more