July 2024

On 9 July 2024, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a consultative document on Principles for the sound management of third-party risk.

The Principles contained in the consultative document are intended to supersede those in the 2005 Joint Forum paper Outsourcing in financial services specifically for the banking sector. There are 12 high-level principles

On 9 July 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published the results of its fifth stress test exercise for central counterparties (CCPs).

Whilst the stress test confirmed the overall resilience of the EU clearing landscape it also found that some gaps persist in the coverage of concentration risk across

On 8 July 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the conditions and the criteria to assess whether the credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk exposures arising from fair-valued securities financing transactions (SFTs) are material, as well as the

On 8 July 2024, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued two consultation papers on liquidity management tools (LMTs) for funds.

The first consultation covers draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on LMTs under the Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) and the UCITS Directive. The second

On 5 July 2024, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published an update on the Overseas Funds Regime (OFR), providing new information on landing slots for firms that are currently in the temporary marketing permissions regime (TMPR).

The FCA states that it will issue a ‘direction’ to each fund operator