Features

Statistics recently obtained by Herbert Smith Freehills call into question whether the Senior Managers Regime has been effective in allowing UK regulators to pursue enforcement against senior individuals in financial services, writes Jenny Stainsby, the global head of the firm’s financial services regulatory practice.

06 July 2022

“What’s the lore, as opposed to the law?” The chair of Debevoise’s banking group Satish Kini speaks to GBRR about sanctions, credibility with regulators, and how innovation is levelling the playing field of experience.

29 June 2022

Financial regulators are potentially helping to create instruments that could facilitate fraud, the International Bar Association’s 37th International Financial Law Conference has heard, as supervisors worldwide begin to develop frameworks for blockchain finance.

01 June 2022

CityWeek’s 12th annual Financial Services Forum heard keynotes from the chief executives of the Financial Conduct Authority and Prudential Regulation Authority, along with discussions of the UK’s ambitions as a crypto hub and its potential for regulatory divergence post-Brexit.

09 May 2022

Leo Labeis, CEO of RegTech provider REGnosys, argues the adoption of digital regulatory reporting should lead firms to adopt a more strategic approach to their data management.

06 May 2022

The bank merger framework in the United States is under the microscope for the first time in years, after President Biden announced an executive order that could have a lasting effect on how banks conduct business. But what would overhauling the merger framework actually look like?

19 April 2022

GBRR looks at the last three years of mergers that have produced banks with over US$100 billion in total assets – and the law firms which acted on them.

19 April 2022

Recently confirmed after a year as acting chair of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission, Rostin Behnam spoke to the Institute of International Bankers’ annual summit about crypto, climate, diversity, and the challenges of running a commission with only two commissioners.

24 March 2022

Tony Brown, head of compliance and money laundering reporting officer of IFX Payments, argues that regulatory staff need to be upskilled to make regulation work for the fintech industry.

23 March 2022

The United States’ acting comptroller of the currency Michael Hsu has argued that banks should treat climate risk with the same “bread-and-butter” scenario analysis tools they are currently using to assess their geopolitical risk following Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, in remarks to the International Institute of Bankers’ first in-person summit in two years.

10 March 2022