Regulatory Updates

US Reg Round Up: 18/06/2024

Securities and Exchange Commission SEC invites regulated entities to submit self-assessment of diversity- 5 June 2024 The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has initiated its biennial collection of Diversity Self-Assessment Submissions from regulated entities. This process allows organizations to evaluate their diversity and inclusion policies, identifying strengths, opportunities, risks, and

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EU & UK Reg Round Up: 18/06/2024

European Banking Authority EBA issues Opinion on adjusting the risk weight for commercial immovable properties - 7 June 2024 The Norwegian Ministry of Finance notified the EBA about their intention to amend the risk weights for exposures secured by mortgages on commercial immovable property. The EBA acknowledges the concerns raised

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US Reg Round Up: 27/05/2024

Federal Reserve Agencies announce inflation-adjusted dollar thresholds for Regulation CC - 13 May 2024 The Fed and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau have both updated the inflation dollar amounts relating to the availability of customer funds. These changes affect Regulation CC, including minimum amounts of deposited funds that banks must

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EU & UK Reg Round Up: 27/05/2024

European Banking Authority EBA launch a consultation on its draft RTS regarding the equivalent mechanism for unfinished property - 13 May 2024 The consultation is regarding the draft RTS under the CRR3 regulation where they specify new conditions that a legal mechanism should meet to recognise a property under construction

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US Reg Round Up: 09/05/2024

Federal Reserve The FED to extend the public comment period for the application by Capital One Financial Corporation to acquire Discover Financial Services - 24 April 2024 The FED announce extension to the public comment period until May 31, 2024, for Capital One Financial Corporation’s application to acquire Discover

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EU & UK Reg Round Up: 09/05/2024

European Banking Authority EBA launch a public consultation on the specification of long and short positions - 24 April 2024 This public consultation will focus on identifying the main risk driver and determining whether a transaction represents a long or short position. This comes under the derogations for market and

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US Reg Round Up: 24/04/2024

Office of the comptroller of the Currency (OCC) OCC to extend comment period for proposed rulemaking and policy statements on banking mergers - 10 April 2024 Following the policy statement by the OCC’s review of applications under the Bank Merger Act, the announced that they will extend the comment

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EU & UK Reg Round Up: 24/04/2024

European Banking Authority  DPM 2.0 standard in the works - 16 April 2024 The EBA, EIOPA, and ECB are all collaborating to create a data point model (DPM) alliance between the three regulatory bodies, and release DPM Standard 2.0. This is following last week’s update on how

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US Reg Round Up: 04/04/2024

Federal Reserve The Federal Reserve release their annual financial statements - 26 March 2024 The board released all the individual and combined statements for the board, the 12 Federal Reserve Banks, and 3 LLCs related to lending facilities created by the Fed to support the pandemic response. The total assets

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EU & UK Reg Round Up: 04/04/2024

European Banking Authority  EBA have released a revised list of ITS validation rules - 22 March 2024 The EBA have published a revised list of ITS validations on supervisory reporting, within the list of revised validations the EBA have deactivated some of them either because of incorrectness or for triggering

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