In recent years, diversity and inclusion (D&I) in the financial services sector has become a focus for regulators around the world. Individual regulators, however, have taken different approaches to D&I to reflect the local socio-economic environment.
Below, we provide a high-level summary of the position across a number of key jurisdictions updating our table published
On 29 April 2024, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) published a Report on service level agreements for cross border payment arrangements, with recommendations and key features. The Report has been informed by a stocktake of existing cross-border arrangements and regular exchanges with practitioners.
The Report outlines the complexity of the
On 17 April 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a consultation report that sets out policy recommendations to enhance the liquidity preparedness of non-bank market participants for margin and collateral calls in centrally and non-centrally cleared derivatives and securities markets (including securities financing such as repo).
The FSB has published these recommendations
On 18 March 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a revised version of its 2016 guidance on arrangements to support operational continuity in resolution.
The 2016 guidance assists supervisory and resolution authorities, and financial institutions to evaluate whether financial institutions that are subject to resolution planning requirements have appropriate arrangements to support
On 20 December 2023, the Financial Stability Board issued a report setting out revised policy recommendations to address structural vulnerabilities from asset management activities in relation to liquidity mismatch in open-ended funds. The revised policy recommendations supersede section2 of the FSB’s 2017 policy recommendations to address structural vulnerabilities from asset management activities. The revised recommendations
On 15 December 2023, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a statement on the risk of online harm to retail investors from investment scams and frauds. IOSCO has issued the statement noting that with growing online retail investor participation there has been a rise of ‘bad actors’ using sophisticated and fraudulent
Our global funds and financial services and regulation teams have recently created a new publication called Global Asset Management Review which comprises of a series of articles from colleagues around the world designed to help clients and contacts keep up-to-date with key trends in the asset management industry. Click here to view it.
On 15 December 2023, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a 2023 Resolution Report.
The 2023 Resolution Report is the FSB’s twelfth report on the implementation of resolution reforms and takes stock of the progress made by FSB members in implementing resolution reforms and enhancing resolvability across the banking, central counterparty, and
In our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from our EMEA offices provide an update on the key regulatory issues they are seeing in their local market. In this third episode James Morris from our Sydney office discuss what they are seeing in the Australian market touching on reforms to payment systems regulation, buy now pay
On 8 November 2023, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published a document containing final technical amendments which have been integrated into the consolidated Basel Framework.
The amendments relate to: (i) the standardised approach to operational risk; (ii) the disclosure standards for credit valuation adjustment risk; (iii) the description of the