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On 30 April 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) revised its 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 four key areas: (i) establishing a suitable credit risk

On 23 April 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a letter from its chair, Klaas Knot, to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their meeting on 23-24 April.

In the letter Mr Knot reflects on the progress made in addressing global challenges to financial stability and outlines priorities for

On 15 April 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published its finalised Format for Incident Reporting Exchange (FIRE), a global standardised format aimed at streamlining cyber and operational incident reporting and enhancing cross-border cooperation.

FIRE is a common framework that financial firms can use to report operational incidents, including cyber

In this latest issue of Regulation Around the World we look at some of the key regulatory topics for 2025 in the following jurisdictions: United Kingdom, EU, France, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Italy, UAE, South Africa, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Australia and China. We have not attempted to list every single reform expected this year but

In our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from our EMEA offices provide an update on some of the key regulatory issues they are seeing in their local market. In this latest episode Karl Masi and Hasanali Pirbhai from our Dubai office provide a regulatory update for the UAE. This includes the FATF’s onsite assessment this

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

  • Prioritize issues related to non-bank financial intermediation again in 2025.
  • Continue its review of the IOSCO Principles for the Valuation of Collective Investment Schemes.
  • Spearhead a series

On 26 February 2025, the Financial Action task Force (FATF) issued a public consultation seeking input on best practices in mitigating proliferation financing risks. The consultation is intended to help FATF produce a report that will improve country and private sector understanding of current proliferation financing risks. This will cover the evasion techniques