International Regulatory Updates
JUNE 30, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion responding to the European Commission's (EC) intention to amend the EBA's draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication and common and secure communication. In its Opinion, while agreeing with the aims sou ...
JUNE 26, 2017
On 23 June, the European Central Bank (ECB) determined that Veneto Banca S.p.A. and Banca Popolare di Vicenza S.p.A. were failing or likely to fail as the two banks repeatedly breached supervisory capital requirements. The determination was made in accordance with Articles 18(1a) and 18(4a) of the ...
JUNE 08, 2017
The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the ECB Regulation on the materiality threshold for credit obligations past due for all significant institutions within the Single Supervisory Mechanism, both for retail and for non-retail exposures, irrespective of the method used for the calcul ...
JUNE 02, 2017
The European Central Bank (ECB) today launches a public consultation on the review of the ECB Regulation on supervisory fees. The aim of the consultation, which is provided for under Article 17 of the Regulation, is to gather feedback from interested parties with a view to assessing possible improve ...
JUNE 02, 2017
What’s Inside This Issue:
MFSA hosts EU Presidency events
Moody's: Malta's credit profile balances favourable economic prospects against fiscal challenges
MFSA updates Market on MiFID II and MiFIR
ECC discusses public financial literacy ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority launched today a consultation focusing on the scope of its draft Guidelines on connected clients, on which it had already sought the stakeholders’ views in July 2016. In the new consultation, the EBA is proposing to extend the scope of these draft Guidelines to the ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority launched today a consultation focusing on the scope of its draft Guidelines on connected clients, on which it had already sought the stakeholders' views in July 2016. In the new consultation, the EBA is proposing to extend the scope of these draft Guidelines to the re ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) welcomes the enhancement of the FX Global Code (the Code) and the publication of its May 2017 update. The objective of the Code is to promote a robust, fair, liquid, open, and transparent market underpinned by high ethical standards, which shall benefit all whole ...
MAY 26, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced today that it will publish data for its fourth annual EU-wide transparency exercise in December 2017 together with the Risk Assessment Report (RAR). Nearly 600000 data points in total on more than 130 banks will be released, covering all key balance she ...
MAY 24, 2017
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Consultation Paper (CP) on the Money Market Funds Regulation (MMFR). The CP contains proposals on draft technical advice (TA), draft implementing technical standards (ITS), and guidelines under the MMFR. The key proposals relate ...
