DORA is now live, without any transitional provision.
A wide range of rules applicable for managing ICT risks, including risks linked to ICT third-party service providers, applies from today. DORA applies to nearly all financial entities in the EU, with very few exemptions for smaller institutions. For the first time, it also covers major unregulated
On 16 January 2025, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) issued a report on the assessment of climate-related vulnerabilities.
The report is part of the FSB’s Roadmap to Address Climate-related Financial Risks and describes a framework and analytical toolkit to assess climate-related vulnerabilities using a forward-looking approach. It also includes some metrics that can
On 16 January 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a joint report on recent developments in crypto-assets, analysing decentralised finance (DeFi) and crypto lending, borrowing and staking.
As regards DeFi the joint report finds, among other things, that:
On 16 January 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued its Peer Review on the application of proportionality under the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP).
Proportionality is an important part of the SREP enabling Member State competent authorities (NCAs) to adapt the scope, frequency and intensity of the
On 16 January 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation paper on draft guidelines on environmental, social and governance (ESG) scenario analysis.
The draft guidelines are addressed to Member State competent authorities and to financial institutions as defined in Article 4(1) of Regulation No 1093/2010 which are also institutions
On 15 January 2025, three international regulators – the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS), the BIS Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) – published final reports on initial and variation margin in centrally cleared and non-centrally cleared markets.
Background
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
This Friday (17 January) the EU Digital Operational Resilience Act, DORA, comes into force and, unusual for EU legislation, there are no transitional provisions meaning the legislation comes into effect immediately.
The European Securities and Markets Authority has already warned that financial entities should identify and address gaps between their internal set ups and DORA’s
On 9 January 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a Final Report containing Guidelines on the management of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks (the Guidelines).
The Guidelines address ESG risk management processes of ‘financial institutions’ (as per Article 4(1) point 3 of the Capital Requirements Regulation) as part