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 19 February 2025, the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) issued a final report setting out its findings following a thematic review of its recommendations from the 2013 report ‘IOSCO Report Technological Challenges to Effective Market Surveillance: Issues and Regulatory Tools’.
In summary, most market authorities have implemented the recommendations and have
On 11 February 2025, the Bank of International Settlements published a speech by Denis Beau, First Deputy Governor of the Bank of France, at the Cercle IA et finance.
In his speech Mr Denis discusses, from a supervisor’s perspective, the opportunities and risks of AI and then the conditions necessary for effective regulation of AI
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 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
We have published a new briefing note concerning the CRD VI – The new rules for cross-border banking business from third countries under CRD VI: What should non-EEA firms do now?
On 24 January 2025, the Global Foreign Exchange Committee (GFXC) issued a press release announcing that it had completed its review of the FX Global Code (Code).
This latest version of the Code will supersede the July 2021 version. Updates have been made to five of the Code’s fifty-five principles to
On 14 January 2025, the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) updated its webpage regarding its innovation hub.
The update includes information regarding the 2025-2026 work programme which includes:
On 14 January 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a report on The Relevance of Transition Plans for Financial Stability.
Background
The report looks at the role that financial and non-financial firms’ transition plans can play for financial stability assessments, in particular as a source of information for monitoring climate-related financial
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