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Financial Services Regulation

This network is for financial professionals interested in staying up to date on financial services regulation happening anywhere in the world. CFOs, bankers, fund managers, treasurers welcome.

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Marc Murphy CEO at Fenergo

A horizontal lifecycle approach to regulatory onboarding

Over the last few months alone, we’ve witnessed: the finalisation of FATCA, Dodd-Frank, EMIR, MiFID II rules, the proposal for an enhancement of existing money laundering rules in the form of the 4th EU Money Laundering Directive, the completion of Customer Due Diligence (CDD) rules by FinCEN in the US, and the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority (FC...

09 July 2013 /regulation /wholesale

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Cybercrime: ICSA guidance

The Institute of Chartered Secretaries and Administrators (ICSA) published a guidance note designed to help boards to understand the risks associated with cybercrime as managing cyber risk is a business-critical activity, and cannot be regarded as simply an IT issue. Cyber risk is different from other types of risk because of the rapid evolution...

09 July 2013

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Euro Commission-Reforming structure EU banking sector,FAQs

The European Commission has published a document containing frequently asked questions (FAQs) following requests for clarifications about the data templates that accompanied its May 2013 consultation paper on EU banking structural reform. The FAQs relate to the confidentiality of the information provided by respondents and provide further informa...

08 July 2013

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ESMA publishes EMIR implementation actions on CCP regime

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) as required under the European Markets Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) has published: A report containing guidelines and recommendations for establishing consistent, efficient and effective assessments of interoperability arrangements The guidelines and recommendations apply to national compet...

03 July 2013

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Consequences of PRA implementation of CRD IV

The Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) intends to require banks to deduct from Common Equity Tier 1 significant investments in insurance companies above threshold allowances under its implementation of CRD IV/CRR. This will apply both to banking groups with an investment in an insurance company and to solo banks with an investment in an insura...

02 July 2013

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FCA's enforcement priorities for the coming year

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) Head of Enforcement in a speech provided details of FCA’s enforcement priorities for the coming year. She emphasised that there would be earlier engagement by enforcement teams with firms and that a more interactive approach should be expected. The emphasis on the culture in firms and senior management’s res...

01 July 2013

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EMIR, new deadline for advice on US and Japanese regimes

The European Commission has sent a letter to the Chair of the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) revising its request for technical advice on the equivalence between certain third country legal and supervisory frameworks and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR). The Commission has revised the deadline for ESMA’s ad...

01 July 2013

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FCA Policy development update

The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Development Update no 2. This details the timetable for forthcoming publications including in: Q2 2013 a Feedback Statement to DP13/1 on “How the FCA could be more transparent” Q3 2013 a Regulatory Guide on publishing information about warning notices Q3/4 2013 a Policy Statement on Solvency ...

27 June 2013

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Fact sheet on Short Selling Regulation now published by FCA

New forms for short selling notifications post 10 June 2013 were recently published by the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). The website has now been updated to include a Fact sheet on Short Selling which provides more guidance on the regime and the registration and notification requirements including how to correct or delete an incorrect notific...

26 June 2013

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Combat Offences: EU Parliament Special Committee Report

The European Parliament's special committee on organised crime, corruption and money laundering has voted to adopt an interim report which includes recommendations on actions and initiatives to be taken to combat these offences. The report calls for the financial sector to: determine which IT tools might be used to ensure the traceability of fin...

14 June 2013