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On 6 February 2025, the European Commission published the keynote address of Commissioner Albuquerque at the ESMA Conference.

The title of the address is Shaping a prosperous future for Europe: The Savings and Investments Union.

In the address Commissioner Albuquerque discusses the underlying drivers of the Savings and Investments Union. This includes empowering EU

On 6 February 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Decision (EU) 2025/222 of the European Central Bank of 27 January 2025 on access by non-bank payment service providers to Eurosystem central bank operated payment systems and central bank accounts. The Decision seeks to enhance the efficiency and smooth functioning of

On 5 February 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) issued a public consultation on a limited update of the Principles for the Management of Credit Risk (Credit Risk Principles).

The Credit Risk Principles provide guidelines for banking supervisory authorities to evaluate banks’ credit risk management processes in certain

On 5 February 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued its opinion on the European Commission’s (Commission) proposed amendments to the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the requirements for policies and procedures on conflicts of interest for issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) under the Markets in

On 4 February 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published its work programme and strategic priorities for 2025/26.

The programme prioritises work on Basel III implementation, risk assessment and safeguarding resilience, digitalisation, and liquidity. As part of its work on risk assessment the Basel Committee will pursue a deep

On 5 February 2025, the EU Platform on Sustainable Finance (Platform) issued a report Simplifying the EU taxonomy to foster sustainable finance.

The report builds on previous Platform work and responds to a European Commission (Commission) mandate to help simplify and improve the effectiveness of the framework of the Taxonomy

On 4 February 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published the keynote address given by its chair, José Manuel Campa, at the 9th annual AFORE Consulting FinTech conference. In his speech Mr Campa covers integrated reporting, a project that the EBA is implementing with the European Central Bank (ECB) which will

On 4 February 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a final report containing draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on reporting of data on charges for credit transfers and payments accounts, and shares of rejected transactions. The draft ITS deliver on the mandate in the Instant Payment Regulation (IPR)

In this latest episode of our podcast series, Split the Difference, Hannah Meakin, Floortje Nagelkerke, Anna Carrier, Lucy Dodson and Simon Lovegrove look ahead at some of the key regulatory topics impacting institutions in the markets space in both the UK and the EU during 2025.

The podcast is here.