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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its spring 2025 risk assessment report alongside a press release, outlining key developments and emerging risks within the European Union/European Economic Area (EU/EEA). The...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a consultation paper containing draft implementing technical standards (ITS) on amending Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/2070 with regard to the benchmarking of...more
The European Central Bank has published a statement on its framework for assessing capital buffers of other systemically important institutions. In the statement, the ECB announced that it will enhance the floor methodology...more
Yesterday the PRA and FCA published PRA consultation paper 16/24 / FCA consultation paper 24/23 – Remuneration reform, containing proposals for significant changes to the remuneration regime. The UK’s current remuneration...more
In our previous alert we mentioned a joint letter from the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) and Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) to the UK Government on their strategic approach to artificial intelligence (AI) and...more
As regulatory thinking evolves, firms must ensure that any current or planned use of AI complies with regulatory expectations. As financial services firms digest FS2/23, the joint Feedback Statement on Artificial...more
In our previous alert, we noted the speech made by Nikhil Rathi, CEO of the UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA), which built on the points made in a joint paper published by the Bank of England (BoE) and FCA on artificial...more
UK regulator continues to raise concerns that current market practices could lead to systemic risk. The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has issued another communication, the latest of a series related to...more
Despite the occasional operational issue, European banks; like their peers in Asia, the US, and the UK, are generally in good financial shape to weather the current economic storms reverberating around the world. This picture...more
The UK’s banking regulator, the Prudential Regulatory Authority (PRA), recently announced that it had fined a UK bank over £5m (over $7m) because of problems caused by uncontrolled spreadsheets in crucial business processes. ...more
On November 1, 2021, the President’s Working Group on Financial Markets (PWG) - along with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) and the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC) - published the Report on...more
IRB UK mortgage risk weights: PRA CP14/20 - The UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has published a consultation paper, CP14/20, on proposals to introduce new expectations on internal ratings based (IRB) approach UK...more
Several high profile systems failures resulting in customers being unable to access their finances and an ever-increasing reliance on outsourcing key activities to group entities or third parties have unsurprisingly caught...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulatory Authority has published a Policy Statement, revised reporting rules and a revised Supervisory Statement on the PRA's approach to supervising liquidity and funding risks (SS 25/15). The changes...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority is consulting on proposals for modernizing the regulatory framework on outsourcing and third party risk management by the financial services sector. The proposals are relevant to...more
Insights from Latham’s flagship event: Managing the risk and promise of digitisation in financial services - The financial services industry is leading the way in outsourcing, with contract values in excess of US$10.7...more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has launched a consultation on its proposed expectations of how firms manage prudential risks associated with asset encumbrance. The PRA’s expectations are relevant to all...more
The UK's Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) has, this month, written to insurance companies in the UK to find out more about how they deal with the threat posed by cyber attacks and what mechanisms they have in place to...more
For years, banks have relied on third party vendors to provide specialized products or services, or have used outsourcing as a way to reduce internal operating costs. In the wake of the financial crisis, however, regulators...more