International Regulatory Updates

Inside this issue: MFSA Annual Report 2014 MFSA approves Italo SICAV as Loan Fund Consultation Procedure : Conduct of Business Rulebook – Extension of Deadline Industry Updates European Supervisory Authorities Press Releases MFSA Licences - April 2015 MFSA Announcements F ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on contributions to deposit guarantee schemes and on payment commitments. Both Guidelines will help ensure consistent application of the new funding mechanisms provided for in the new Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD) ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published an Opinion to the European Union (EU) institutions on the impact of EMIR on UCITS. In the opinion, ESMA calls for a modification of the UCITS Directive to take into account the clearing obligations for certain types of over-the-count ...

The EBA announced today that it is getting ready to develop requirements that will harmonise regulatory and supervisory practices to ensure secure, easy and efficient payment services across the EU. The EBA will do so by fulfilling mandates under the upcoming revised Payments Services Directive (PSD ...

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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on specialised lending exposures. The proposed RTS aim to specify how institutions should take into account several factors when assigning risk weights to specialised lending exposures and how ...

Responding to this paper The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) invites responses to the questions listed in this Consultation Paper on the Clearing Obligation under EMIR (no.4).All contributions should be submitted online at www.esma.europa.eu under the heading ‘Your input - Consult ...

All the information on Solvency II is available on a single webpage; EIOPA to publish its feedback on the comments on the second set of Standards and Guidelines early in the 3rd quarter of 2015; Insurers are urged to focus their efforts on reporting both under the preparatory phase and under S ...

ESMA has published guidelines to the application of the definitions in sections C6 and C7  of Annex I of Directive 2004/39/EC (MiFID) ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an update of its first report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 (AT1) capital instruments issued by EU institutions and released on 7th October 2014 . This update is partly based on the review of new AT1 issuances and includes some final co ...