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The US Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has updated its fair lending guidelines following a critical GAO report last year – but it’s not clear the revisions will satisfy the critics.

17 January 2023

Eight years on since the enactment of the revised Payment Services Directive, the European Union’s banking regulator has complained of “significant divergence” among national regulators’ interpretation of its local substance requirements.

16 January 2023

Linklaters has hired the head of Ashurst’s Singapore financial regulation practice, while Watson Farley & Williams has hired a Covington & Burling partner in its London office.

16 January 2023

King & Spalding partner Robert Dedman, a former head of enforcement at the Prudential Regulation Authority, has joined CMS in London.

13 January 2023

The IIF and EY’s latest survey of banks’ chief risk officers has seen over half name cybersecurity as their biggest concern for 2023 – but shows a marked drop in concerns over climate and financial risk.

12 January 2023

As the UK’s prudential regulator publishes supervisory priorities with an “unprecedented focus” on the banks’ technological side, practitioners tell GBRR that banks might be faced with challenges in keeping up with the scale and pace of change.

12 January 2023

The last year saw regulators and international standard-setting bodies busier than ever before with new proposals and rules for the ESG realm. In the second part of our examination of the year to come in banking regulation, GBRR spoke with practitioners from the UK, US, Singapore, and Hong Kong about how climate-related regulation will further evolve in 2023.

11 January 2023

The Singapore Exchange’s regulatory body has banned one of Asia’s largest brokerage firms for internal control failures related to business conduct and anti-money laundering requirements.

11 January 2023

Indonesia’s financial regulator has issued banks with a new cybersecurity framework amid increasing attacks on the country’s financial system – but practitioners warn further updates will be necessary to keep pace.

10 January 2023

Practitioners have welcomed revisions to Saudi Arabia’s decade-old prudential rules, calling them better tailored to the risks associated with different business activities.

10 January 2023