Mete Feridun Chair at EMU Centre for Financial Regulation and Risk
The European Banking Authority’s (EBA) final regulatory products with respect to the Investment Firms Directive (IFD) published on 21 July 2022 are expected to harmonise the supervisory practices regarding the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) of investment firms. The new regime spans a broad range of prudential areas ranging from c...
13 September 2022 /regulation Financial Services Regulation
The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision's (BCBS) Standardised Approach to Counterparty Credit Risk (SA-CCR) was introduced to improve the risk sensitivity of capital framework for derivatives transactions without creating undue complexity for banks. One of the Committee’s key objectives in formulating the SA-CCR standard was to design an appro...
06 September 2022 /regulation /markets Banking Regulations
Having addressed the shortcomings in its current regulatory framework on disclosure of non-financial information, the European Union (EU) is once again at the forefront of the international race to sustainability standards and the transition to a sustainable economy. The provisional political agreement on the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Di...
28 August 2022 /regulation /sustainable Sustainable compliance
Digital finance has no doubt transformed the traditional way of providing banking and financial services, enabling greater access to financial services, offering wider choice and increasing efficiency of operations. In the European Union (EU) the use of innovative technologies in the financial sector is facilitating changes to value chains, that d...
07 August 2022 /regulation /crypto Blockchain Geek
The European Commission's (EC) Action Plan on sustainable finance is a major policy objective by the European Union (EU) to promote sustainable investment. As per the plan, banks are expected to finance sustainable economic activities to trasition to a carbon neutral economy. The plan was introduced in March 2018 in response to the Paris Agreemen...
29 May 2022 /regulation /sustainable Banking Regulations
The Basel Committee’s revised Pillar 3 framework of 2015 was intended to address shortcomings in the consistency and comparability of firms’ regulatory disclosures. Introducing standardised disclosure requirements under a tabular format for qualitative information and more granular disclosure requirements for quantitative information, the Committe...
12 February 2020 /regulation Banking Regulations
On 7 January 2019 the Bank of England (BoE) published a discussion paper (DP) on the way it collects data from financial institutions in response to the June 2019 Future of Finance report undertaken by Huw Van Steenis and commissioned by Mark Carney. Proposing a number of options to improve the timeliness, flexibility, quality and interpretation o...
10 January 2020 /regulation Banking Regulations
As the countdown to 31 October 2019 can now be measured in weeks, the UK and the EU are hurtling towards a no-deal Brexit. This has implications for inbound passporting EEA firms as the UK Financial Services and Markets Act (FSMA) prohibits firms from carrying out a regulated activity in the UK, or purport to do so, unless they are either an autho...
06 September 2019 Banking Regulations
The UK branches of the EU-27 banks currently benefit from lighter regulatory requirements compared to the third-country branches. However, post-Brexit this distinction will no longer be relevant as all branches will ultimately be subject to the same rules. So, with the increasing odds of a no-deal Brexit, the EU-27 banks operating in the UK as bra...
27 August 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations
Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD), one of the components of the EU Banking Package, which was published in the Official Journal of the EU on 7 June 2018 will need to be transposed into EU Member State national legislations by 28 December 2020. The key rule introduced under the BRRD is the requirement for the EU banks to meet a minimum r...
14 July 2019 /regulation Banking Regulations
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