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Key takeaways The securitisation market stands on the brink of long-needed transformation - an opportunity too important to miss. The European Commission's package of securitisation reforms helpfully addresses some key...more
Proposals for securitisation reform are on the horizon in the EU and the UK. A significant package of reforms could facilitate meaningful change and allow the securitisation market to meet its full potential. Reform also...more
Significant risk transfer transactions or SRTs are one of the fastest growing corners of the financial markets. In this update, the opening of the US market, increasing international regulatory scrutiny and updates to the UK...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General (i) EU - ESRB: Speech on old and new frontiers of the ESRB: Systemic risk, non-banks and data analysis - Status: Final - The ESRB has published a...more
Mairead McGuinness, European Commissioner for Financial Services, Financial Stability and Capital Markets Union (CMU), made a speech discussing the importance of continuing to make progress on the Banking Union and CMU....more
Key developments in May 2024: ESG: The Financial Conduct Authority (“FCA”) updated its webpage on the sustainability disclosure requirements (“SDR”) and investments labelling regime. Among other things, the webpage has been...more
On 30 April 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (the “FCA”) published Policy Statement PS24/4 (“PS24/4”) setting out the final FCA Securitisation Sourcebook (“SECN”). Subject to the repeal of the Securitisation Regulation...more
The detailed disclosure requirements under the Securitisation Regulations in the EU and UK, which aim to ensure that investors receive the information needed to make informed assessments, have been considered by many market...more
The start of 2024 heralds the rollout of a new suite of rules for securitisation in the UK, which once adopted, will replace the existing on-shored UK Securitisation Regulation (the “UKSR”). Originally published in...more
Following up on a consultation in July 2023 here, the post-Brexit replacement of Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 of the European Parliament and of the Council ("Sec Reg"), the UK Securitisation Regulations 2024 (SI 2024/102) ("SI")...more
The new securitisation framework will combine three sets of overlapping rules, in an effort to repeal and replace retained EU law in the UK. The missing piece of the puzzle to the UK’s new securitisation framework became...more
As the pace of reform increases, we take a look at key developments and the timeline ahead. Significant progress has been made on the Edinburgh Reforms since they were announced in December 2022, with developments...more
The U.K.’s newest Financial Services and Markets Act of 2023 (“FSM Act”) received Royal Assent on 29 June 2023. Certain parts came into force on its passing, others will come into effect two months after that, and the...more
The timetable sets out three tranches of extensive regulatory changes to UK and EU law in 2023 and 2024. The “Edinburgh Reforms”, a series of announcements made on 9 December 2022 by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, set...more
The UK’s Temporary Transitional Power (TTP) that allowed firms time to adapt to the new requirements following the UK’s withdrawal from the European Union on 31 December 2020, is ending on Thursday 31 March 2022. UK regulated...more
Submission of statistical data: BoE Green Notice 2020/02 - The Bank of England (BoE) has published a Green Notice 2020/02 announcing future changes to the submission of statistical data to its Data and Statistics Division...more
Reporting requirements: EBA questionnaire and call for case studies on cost of compliance - HM Treasury has published a statement on the applicability of COVID-19 related amendments to the Capital Requirements Regulation...more
The Securitisation Regulation applies to securitisations, the securities of which are issued (or where no securities are issued, the securitisation positions of which are created) on or after 1 January 2019....more
The PRA’s policy relating to the implementation of the Securitisation Regulation is relevant to PRA-authorised firms subject to the CRR and Capital Requirements Directive IV (together CRR firms) and PRA-authorised Solvency II...more
The U.K. Securitization Regulations 2018 have been laid before Parliament and will come into force on January 1, 2019. The Regulations implement the EU Securitization Regulation (also known as the STS Regulation) into U.K....more
The U.K. Prudential Regulation Authority has published a Consultation Paper, setting out the PRA's proposals on its approach to supervision under the new EU securitization framework that will take effect from January 1, 2019....more