Douglas Thomson

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• OCC appoints climate risk officer
• Mayer Brown hires from White & Case
• Brown ally named to Treasury financial institutions unit
• Community round-up: senior hires at FINMA and Bank of Canada
• Binance hires California’s top regulator, as FinCEN creates digital currency post
• FCA names new in-house legal team
• New leadership at Canada’s OSFI
• CBDCs get BIS seal of approval
• “Exceptional circumstances” continue: ECB extends leverage ratio relief
• China set to tighten shareholder behaviour rules
• Bank of England launches “fiendishly complicated” climate stress tests
• Second Circuit dismisses New York’s “unripe” fintech charter suit
• Jones Day hires five in Paris
• FCA sets out its “tough legacy” plans
• Italian regulators intervene to rescue local Greensill casualty
• Australian banks deny “virtue signalling” on climate plans
• Ashurst hires former Deutsche GC
• Privatbank bail-in recognised in UK
• Ashurst and Travers Smith promote in London
• Bird & Bird hires in Stockholm, Arnold & Porter in New York
• Existing risk categories can capture climate risk drivers, Basel says
• Basel finalises resilience principles as FDIC chair points to legacy systems
• MAS consulting on foreign branch exemptions
• FinCEN issues ANPR for beneficial ownership reporting, as director departs
• Shariah standard-setter warns of Ibor transition risks
• Euroyen Tibor administrator proposes 2024 end-date
• UK outlines mandatory climate disclosure plans
• US & Canada signal end of covid-era capital indulgence
• A&O’s Katz joins Ashurst
• Basel III monitoring to be mandatory in Europe
• Jones Day hires from Goldman Sachs
• FCA and MAS name women to senior leadership roles
• New Philippine digital bank framework prompts South African entrant
• FCA pulls the Libor trigger
• “The new normal”: Singapore addresses work-from-home risks
• Treasury fintech review urges unified UK regulatory strategy
• EBA sets out supervisory cooperation plans
• Sanction banks standing in the way of PSD2 success, EBA says
• Nigerian regulators deny split on crypto policy
• Former SEC chair returns to Sullivan & Cromwell
• CFTC’s Sterling to Jones Day, FCA’s Woolard to EY
• Cravath hires Debevoise partner Portilla
• Market “woefully unprepared” for SFDR with one month to go
• Darrois Villey advising as BPCE seeks Natixis squeeze-out
• ESMA should regulate crypto, AMF chair says
• Baker McKenzie advising on Swiss Libor switch documentation
• Baker McKenzie advising on three-way shariah bank merger
• Too Big To Fail has wedged banks by profitability, Basel report finds
• EU Court rejects Latvian bank’s SRF repayment request
• Lebanese banks sell Egyptian units amid capital requirements push

• Skadden hires old SEC hand
• Biden Begins
• Community roundup: Linklaters names global banking heads; Davis Polk hires OCC alum in DC
• Crédit Agricole sells Romanian unit, with Clifford Chance advising
• New year, new promotions
• OCC faces blowback for “fair access” proposal
• White & Case hires Milbank fintech practice lead
• Bangkok Bank integrates Indonesian branches after Permata M&A, with White & Case and Baker McKenzie advising
• Regulators dial back dividend and buyback restrictions
• Cadwalader and Sidley announce 2021 promotions in US and UK
• More departures from SEC
• US to reform AML rules
• Hong Kong proposes client ID requirements
• Prudential roundup: Australia proposes capital adequacy updates
• White & Case promotes in Frankfurt; Davis Polk in New York and Hong Kong
• Libor administrator proposes extending US dollar transition to 2023
• Weil practice head joins Squire Patton Boggs
• Basel finalises NPL securitisation rules
• Libra hires GC from Credit Suisse
• “This is a bad idea”: RBI faces pushback from ex-governor over bank ownership overhaul
• OCC moves against fossil fuel “discrimination”
• What will Biden’s presidency mean for banking regulation?
• Sullivan & Cromwell and Wachtell Lipton advise as PNC buys BBVA USA
• Biden taps Gensler to lead financial regulation transition team
• Covid-19 prompting “institutional rethink” on operational resilience, report finds
• SEC director steps down, CFTC reshuffles departments
• PRA expands OCIR umbrella
• GCs move at Credit Suisse and HSBC
• Goldman Sachs to address risk management after US$2.9 billion 1MDB settlement
• ISDA announces fallbacks protocol, seeking to catalyse Ibor transition
• China moves closer to digital yuan
• Banks must report security law violations, Hong Kong regulator says
• Community round-up: Promotions at Ashurst and FinCEN
• DFS calls for regulators to target social media companies after Twitter hack
• Reserve Bank of India names new regulatory chief
• First, do no harm: central banks agree CBDC principles
• EBA publishes sectoral risk guidelines
• “There is time if you start now”: regulators push greater urgency on benchmark transition
• ADGM set to adopt UNCITRAL electronic transaction rules
• Crédit Agricole sells final Saudi Fransi stake, with Clifford Chance advising
• FCA and PRA push Brexit changes as transition end-date approaches
• Community round-up: departures at MAS and FCA
• FinCEN overhauls AML rules
• EBA backs first AML regulation
• Singapore issues first conduct framework
• SFT haircut standards delayed again
• “Let’s not run before we can walk”: BoE’s Bailey on stablecoins
• Fed admits stress-testing error
• Community round-up: Libra names second GC in three months, ESMA names CCP committee
• CSDR settlement discipline regime delayed, as securitisation repository registration comes online