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Includes developments in relation to: critical third parties; DPM Alliance; CSDDD; PRA Rulebook; vulnerable customers; FCA business plan; insolvency; debt collection; CRR; IRRBB; instant credit transfers in euro; CMDI framework; consumer lending risks; regulated mortgage contracts; wholesale energy market manipulation; BMR; settlement cycle; MiFIR; AIFMD II; PRIIPs; retirement income advice; and AML/CTF.

General

  • Digitalisation of critical shared services - FSB updates guidance on operational continuity
  • DPM Alliance - EBA, ECB and EIOPA publish MoU
  • CSDDD - New compromise text published by Council of EU
  • Designation of critical third parties - HM Treasury publishes its approach
  • Regulators’ exchange of competition and consumer protection related information - DBT launches consultation
  • Website launch - New PRA Rulebook website
  • Treatment of customers in vulnerable circumstances - FCA announces review
  • Business Plan 2024/25 - published by the FCA
  • Insolvency practitioners’ approach to regulated firms - FCA consults on amended guidance (GC24/1)
  • Approach to supervision, consumers, competition and international firms - FCA updates materials
  • Debt collection best practices - FCA and other regulators publish expectations

Banking and Finance

  • CRR - European Commission adopts ITS on IRRBB reporting requirements
  • Regulation on instant credit transfers in euro - Revised text published
  • CMDI framework reforms - ECON votes to adopt proposals
  • Joint Bank Reporting Committee - established by ECB and EBA
  • Consumer lending - FCA publishes portfolio letter setting out risks
  • Kumar and others v LSC Finance Ltd, [2024] EWCA Civ 254

Securities and Markets

  • Wholesale energy markets - Council of the EU adopts Regulation protecting against manipulation
  • BMR - ECON publishes report on proposed amendments
  • Shortening the settlement cycle - ESMA publishes feedback statement to call for evidence
  • MiFIR market data access and transparency - ESMA to clarify incoming rule changes

Asset Management

  • AIFMD II - Council publishes revised text
  • PRIIPs and retail investment protection - ECON votes to adopt proposals
  • Severe but plausible scenarios in the context of operational resilience - IA publishes guidance

Insurance

  • Retirement income advice - FCA publishes thematic review and Dear CEO letter

Financial Crime

  • Countering terrorist financing - Statement published by Wolfsberg Group

Enforcement

  • Cum-ex trading scheme - FCA publishes Decision Notice