On 2 May 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued a Consultation Paper on regulatory technical standards (RTS) under the Regulation on the transparency and integrity of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) rating activities.
The draft RTS cover the following aspects that apply to ESG rating providers:
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 30 April 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a Consultation Paper containing a draft Commission Delegated Regulation which amends Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/206 of 5 October 2022 supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the types of factors to
On 28 April 2025, the European Parliament’s Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs published a draft report on safeguarding and promoting financial stability amid economic uncertainties. Among other things the Rapporteur identifies several macro-financial risks and stresses the need for robust crisis preparedness mechanisms to safeguard the EU’s financial system. The rapporteur also highlights the
On 29 April 2025, the European Commission adopted a Delegated Regulation supplementing the Regulation on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the arrangements, systems and procedures to prevent, detect and report market abuse, the templates to be used for reporting suspected market abuse, and the coordination procedures
On 29 April 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a Final Report containing supervisory guidelines on practices for Member State competent authorities (NCAs) to prevent and detect market abuse under the Regulation in markets in crypto assets (MiCA).
Objective
The guidelines apply to NCAs and are
On 18 April 2025, the Dutch Minister of Finance published the draft implementation act on financial services contracts concluded at a distance (the Draft Implementation Act) for consultation. The Draft Implementation Act aims to implement Directive (EU) 2023/2673 into Dutch law. The Draft Implementation Act provides for various consumer protection requirements that will apply
On 24 April 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published a news update concerning the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882, the EAA), which will become applicable in the Netherlands as of 28 June 2025. In this news item, the AFM urges financial institutions
On 25 April 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a Final Report containing draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) amending Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/1108 on the criteria for the appointment of central contact points for electronic money issuers (EMIs) and payment service providers (PSPs) and with