International Regulatory Updates

The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published its 2017 priorities for supervising significant banks in the euro area. The main focus is on the key risks currently faced by banks, such as the need to adapt to financial conditions such as lacklustre economic growth in the euro area and geopoliti ...

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) releases the following statement after the meeting of its Macroprudential Forum on 14 December 2016: Cyclical systemic risks remain contained in most of the countries covered by ECB Banking Supervision and in the euro area as a whole, with ...

The Governing Council of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed 
Pentti Hakkarainen as ECB representative to the Supervisory Board of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Mr Hakkarainen, currently Deputy Governor of Suomen Pankki – Finlands Bank and Chairman of the Finnish Financial Supervis ...

European macroeconomic environment remains fragile, further challenged by geopolitical risks The low interest rate environment continues to be the main challenge for European insurers and Institutions for Occupational Retirement Provision (IORPs) Advances in technology bring new risks and oppo ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its ninth report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector. The report is accompanied by the EBA's 2016 transparency exercise, which provides essential data, in a comparable and accessible format, for 131 banks across the EU. Overall, ...

What’s Inside This Issue: Creditreform assigns A+ rating to Malta New Banking Rules on Depositor Compensation enter into force Consultation on the Proposed Revised Rulebooks applicable to CISs Discussion Paper on Investment Based Crowdfunding European Captive Forum - 2016 ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has today launched its new database, the European Ratings Platform (ERP), to provide access to free, up-to-date information on credit ratings and rating outlooks on its website. The ERP is an important element of ESMA’s work, following the finan ...

Link to Finance Malta event https://www.financemalta.org/events/event/malta-structures-to-service-european-asset-management-business-2016/ ...

The European Central Bank will publish additional banking supervision statistics on a quarterly basis to further strengthen the transparency and accountability of this task. These statistics offer additional and more detailed data on the financial health of the financial institutions supervised dire ...

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