On May 14, the Council of the European Union (Council of the EU) published a press release announcing that it had adopted the proposed revisions to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR II) and to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) IV, or CRD V, at first reading. This follows the preliminary political agreement reached by the… Continue Reading
On December 4, the European Parliament published a press release announcing that it reached provisional political agreement with the Council of the European Union on the proposed revisions to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), or CRR II, and to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) IV, or CRD V. The European Parliament also published a separate… Continue Reading
On August 28, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a consultation paper on amendments to the Commission Implementing Regulation (Implementing Regulation) containing implementing technical standards on supervisory reporting (ITS), relating to the new securitizations framework, which came into force in January.… Continue Reading
On April 30,the UK Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published a policy statement regarding updates to the Pillar 2 reporting requirements of the EU Capital Requirements Regulation. The policy statement is relevant to banks, building societies and PRA-designated investment firms.… Continue Reading
On December 6, the Breach of Union Law Panel of the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a press release relating to a breach of European Union (EU) law (BUL) investigation against the Dutch central bank, De Nederlandsche Bank (DNB), relating to the latter’s prudential framework for proprietary traders. Since January 2014, the DNB had designated… Continue Reading
On December 10, an implementing regulation (Regulation) on the extension of transitional periods set out in the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) was published in the Official Journal of the European Union.… Continue Reading
