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The European Union’s Investment Firm Directive (IFD) and the Investment Firm Regulation (IFR) came into force on 26 December 2019 and entered into effect on 26 June 2021. As discussed in an earlier...

Private law norms used to govern the interactions between banks and clients, credit rating agencies and investors, or between financial firms. Nowadays, however, these relationships have also become...

As climate-related financial risks continue to receive increasing regulatory attention, regulatory authorities are set to increase the rigour of banks’ public disclosure, capital planning and...

Large scale bank bailouts can be very wasteful for society in terms of resources lost and increased public debt [1]. The doom loop means that the public cost of funding a bailout can place a serious...

The revised EU Capital Requirements Directive and Regulation, commonly referred to as CRD 5 and CRR 2, refine and continue to implement Basel III framework in the EU. One of the key rules introduced...

The European Commission (EC) adopted a legislative proposal in December 2017 for a regulation (Investment Firm Regulation) and a directive (Investment Firm Directive) to amend the current EU...

U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer has struck down the Financial Stability Oversight Council’s (FSOC) designation of the insurer MetLife Inc. as a systemically important financial institution (SIFI...

The European Central Bank yesterday published a regulation and a guide on harmonisation of options and discretion in banking supervision, which it described as "an important step in harmonising the...