In this latest issue of Regulation Around the World we look at how regulators have implemented the Basel 3.1 reforms, asking eight key questions in the following jurisdictions: United Kingdom, United States, EU, Luxembourg, France, Italy, Turkey, Netherlands, Australia, South Africa and the UAE. For European jurisdictions we add one further topical question outside of
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Senate Banking Committee Democrats Urge Extended Review of eSLR Proposal
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Senate Banking Committee Democrats urged top US banking regulators to release detailed data and analysis on the economic impacts of a proposed cut to the enhanced supplementary leverage ratio (“eSLR”).
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Fed Vice-Chair Bowman aims to improve bank supervision
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Newly sworn-in Federal Reserve Board Vice-Chair for Supervision Michelle W. Bowman laid out her “pragmatic” agenda to improve bank supervision and regulation.
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Members of Congress urge Fed, OCC to rethink leverage rules
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A bipartisan group of House Financial Services Committee members pressed the Federal Reserve and OCC to move forward with long-promised reforms to bank leverage ratios that are constraining liquidity in the US Treasury market.
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Bank Regulators Withdraw Guidance on Digital Assets
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The Federal Reserve Board withdrew previously issued guidance for banks on crypto-asset and dollar token activities.
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Fed Proposes to Amend Stress Capital Buffer Requirement
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The Federal Reserve Board (“Fed”) proposed “[to] amend the calculation of the Board’s stress capital buffer requirement.”
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OCC Withdraws from Interagency Guidance on Climate Risk
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The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency will no longer follow interagency guidance on climate-related risk management for large financial institutions.
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New briefing note – FinCEN issues new AML rule impacting registered investment advisers and exempt reporting advisers
On August 28, 2024, the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN) issued a final rule that will impose new anti-money laundering and countering terrorism financing (AML/CFT) program requirements on registered investment advisers and exempt reporting advisers (collectively, Covered IAs) by, among other things, including Covered IAs within the definition of “financial…