On 12 March 2025, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a consultation report on neo-brokers.
Neo-brokers are a subset of brokers, characterized by providing online-only investment services and by the absence of physical operating branches, thereby using technology to facilitate those services and access to financial markets. Neo-brokers have very limited
On 12 March 2025, the International Organisation of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a new consultation report on artificial intelligence (AI) in capital markets.
The purpose of the consultation report is to create a shared understanding among IOSCO members of the issues, risks and challenges that emerging AI technologies used in financial
Earlier this year the European Commission (Commission) announced that it was rejecting the draft Delegated Regulation supplementing the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) on subcontracting ICT services supporting critical or important functions.
The basis of the rejection was that the requirements introduced
On 21 February 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) announced that it was conducting a thematic peer review that will take stock of the progress made and planned by its members (and certain non-members) in implementing the FSB Crypto Framework.
The primary source of information for the peer review will be responses to
On 13 February 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/295 of 24 October 2024 supplementing the Regulation on digital operational resilience for the financial sector with regard to regulatory technical standards on harmonisation of conditions enabling the conduct of the oversight activities.