Financial institutions have had to deal with two challenges in the face of the COVID-19 pandemic. The first challenge is financial – how to address and mitigate the sharp drop in the value of financial assets or loss of liquidity. The second challenge is operational – how to address the risk of failure of resources
On 19 October 2020, HM Treasury issued phase II of its consultation on the financial services future regulatory framework review.
Phase I of the review looked at coordination between the UK authorities that have responsibility for the regulation of, and policy for, the financial services sector. HM Government published its response on 11 March 2020,
The recording from the October 40 Minute Briefing, Learning lessons: Proactive governance in the autumn, is now available here.
In the October edition of the webinar we focussed on “lessons learned” reviews, examining how such reviews can be successfully conducted so that they are valuable exercises. The webinar also considered skilled persons reviews, focussing
On 19 October 2020, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a consultation paper regarding the technical standards on conditions which require an extension of authorisation for a central counterparty (CCP), conditions which require validations of a CCP’s changes to models and parameters by a Member State competent authority (
On 19 October 2020, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a toolkit of effective practices for financial institutions’ cyber incident response and recovery (CIRR). The toolkit draws on the feedback from a public consultation process, including four virtual outreach meetings. The report was delivered to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank
On 19 October 2020, the European Commission launched a public consultation on EU rules for long-term investment funds. European long-term investment funds (ELTIFs) is an EU scheme to facilitate investment – through alternative investment funds – in longer-term assets such as transport and social infrastructure projects (energy, hospitals, social housing), property and small
On 16 October 2020, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a global transition roadmap for LIBOR. The roadmap sets out a timetable of actions for financial and non-financial sector firms to take in order to ensure a smooth LIBOR transition by end-2021.
The roadmap provides that:
In June 2020, the UK Government announced that it would review some of the features of Solvency II to ensure that the regime better reflects the UK insurance sector. The present regime, as implemented into UK law, has been designed to cover the entire EU insurance market but has not been adjusted to take into
Every month we provide the Global Blockchain Business Council’s Post-Trade Distributed Ledger group with a global regulatory FinTech updater, the latest version of which can be found here.
Post Trade Distributed Ledger (PTDL) Group is composed of over 40 prominent market infrastructure stakeholders whose shared vision of the use of distributed ledger technology has
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has introduced proposals on how firms should continue to support customers who hold insurance and premium finance products and may be in financial difficulty due to coronavirus (Covid-19). The proposals consider the ways in which firms might provide support to consumers who have already had a payment deferral and to