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 4 December 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a press release following its plenary in Hong Kong on 3 and 4 December.
Key points from the press release include that the FSB:
On 21 November 2024, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a consultation report on pre-hedging.
Definition
For the purposes of the consultation report, IOSCO proposes to define pre-hedging as “trading undertaken by a dealer, in compliance with applicable laws and rules, including those governing frontrunning, trading on material non-public information/insider dealing
On 18 November 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued its 2024 annual report which looks at progress in implementing the G20 reforms and outlines action to be undertaken in 2025.
The annual report notes that certain long-standing financial system vulnerabilities remain, and these include:
In this new edition of Regulation Around the World we review the UK Financial Conduct Authority’s (FCA) Consumer Duty (UK Consumer Duty) and see if other international financial services authorities have already got similar concepts in their frameworks; or whether the UK Consumer Duty not only sets a new UK standard
On 17 October 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a consultation on a Format for Incident Reporting Exchange (FIRE).
FIRE is a common format for financial firms’ reporting of operational incidents, including cyber incidents. It provides a set of common information items for reporting incidents but does not define common
In summer 2024, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a Consultation Paper, CP11/24, on International firms: Updates to Supervisory Statement (SS5/21) and branch reporting. CP11/24 is key to understanding the booking models that the PRA will accept and reflects the debates which the branches of European banks have had in
In the second issue of Global Asset Management Review, our cross-border team provide market updates followed by a closer look at some of the key issues impacting the asset management sector including:
On 22 July 2024, the Financial Stability Board issued a progress report regarding enhancing the resilience of non-bank financial intermediation (NBFI).
The progress report describes recent and ongoing work by the FSB to address systemic risk of NBFI. It sets out the main findings of work over the past year to assess and
On 16 July 2024, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued consultation reports on proposed recommendations intended to promote greater alignment in data frameworks related to cross-border payments and consistency in the regulation and supervision of bank and non-bank payment service providers.
The recommendations regarding data frameworks follow an FSB stocktake of national and