Topic: UK Prudential Regulation Authority

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority is encouraging bigger and riskier EU banks to establish local subsidiaries rather than branches after Brexit, in a new guide to its approach to international firms – while the Prudential Regulation Authority has issued a brace of changes to its binding technical standards and rulebook as the transition nears its end.

24 September 2020

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority will terminate a counter-cyclical emergency capital requirements policy adopted at the outset of the pandemic, while issuing new guidance on the treatment of deferrals under the IFRS 9 accounting standard.

28 August 2020

European banks need to “do more” to improve data quality and stress testing practices in their internal capital adequacy assessment processes (ICAAPs), the European Central Bank has warned.

19 August 2020

The UK’s Financial Conduct Authority will require dual-regulated firms to “ensure and demonstrate” gender-neutral remuneration practices as part of CRD V compliance – while the Prudential Regulation Authority announces changes to its group buffer policies under the directive.

04 August 2020

The UK’s Prudential Regulation Authority has introduced a set of new proposals to simplify regulatory requirements for new entrants to the banking market.

24 July 2020

A group of MEPs has demanded explanations after the EU selected asset manager BlackRock, a major investor in oil companies and banks, to advise on the incorporation of environmental and social factors into European banking regulations.

24 April 2020

A group of Hong Kong shareholders is mulling legal action against HSBC for acquiescing to the Bank of England's request that it forgo shareholder dividends.

07 April 2020

Regulators around the world are delaying long-planned reforms, cancelling stress tests and reducing or eliminating capital buffer requirements as financial institutions grapple with the economic impact of the Covid-19 outbreak.

20 March 2020