Solvency II: rethinking infrastructure investments

On 1 April 2016, the European Commission’s Delegated Regulation (EU) 2016/467 relating to Solvency II – the European risk-based capital regime – was published into the Official Journal of the…

Merry Christmas from Team JWG!

…mandate, complexity and timing. 10 Solvency II: rethinking infrastructure investments On 1 April 2016, the European Commission’s Delegated Regulation relating to Solvency II – the European risk-based capital regime –…

RegDelta alert no 3: Changes to the PRA rulebook

…Requirements Directive (CRD IV) and Solvency II. After uploading the policy statement into our RegDelta Risk Library, we were able to compare the topic deltas between the document and the…

2015: time for your new operating model?

…The data requirements coming from regulations such as MiFID II, CRD IV, EMIR and Solvency II are increasingly granular, and firms need to be able to put them in context…

The aftermath of summer 2014 … onwards and upwards?

…251-page consultation on the transposition of Solvency II. The most important part of this consultation concerns the long-term guarantees (LTG) package, which is a set of new measures designed to…

4 key suggestions from the FCA’s CP on PRIIPS accommodation

…the topics of unauthorised documents for retail investors, application of the rule to non-EEA persons, Solvency II information, structured deposits, optional disclosures, adviser charges and modification of general application COBS…

10 Things You Need to Know about AnaCredit

…Considering the increasingly complex internal and statutory requirements of industry specific regulatory reporting, such as AIFMD, Solvency II, Basel III, MiFID II, etc., there is a risk of inconsistent reporting…

EBA to mandate LEI: But key questions remain unanswered

…produce conflicting requirements for its use across risk, trading and other 2014 regulatory initiatives (e.g., Solvency II, AMLD IV etc…), forcing firms to implement yet another mapping column. Without guidance…

The cost of implementing the LEI: CDOs under the gun?

…window for 2014-15 that all need data support. Trans-atlantic examples include: the EBA’s data point model for CRD IV reporting, RRPs, EMIR, MiFID II and Solvency II; and there are…

Plumbing the reporting infrastructure

…reports sent on a T+1 basis to different bodies and aggregated in parallel with risk used for statistics. Furthermore, some regulatory rules, like CRD IV, AnaCredit and Solvency II, require…

A busy month for financial services regulation

…final publication of important new regulations in the Official Journal of the EU, including SFTR, Payment Services Directive 2 and the third group of implementing regulations on Solvency II. This…

New EU islands to explore post Easter!

…Dodd-Frank, Solvency II, BRRD, AML and others have popped up on the radar. Needless to say, for those of you in the regulatory implementation field, there are many new artefacts…

What lies beneath?

…beginning to change tack. For instance, the Prudential Regulatory Authority requested all entities that fall within the scope of Solvency II to request an LEI code by 30 June 2015,…

Regulatory reporting in 2017: What does good look like?

…more, other regulatory rules, like CRD IV, AnaCredit and Solvency II, require information in formats which will need to be looked at in conjunction with trade and transaction reporting (T&TR)…

2013: A very new year

…they are forced to exchange. 2012 has been a year of shifting and completely missed deadlines, with Solvency II, FATCA, Basel III, RRPs for banks, MiFID II/MiFIR, AMLD, the Data…

Halfway there: the Capital Markets Union (CMU) plan

…of funding Obstacles regarding national laws (insolvency, collateral and securities law, as well as market infrastructure and tax barriers). As promoting innovation and broadening the range of financing options available…

RegTech, key to Stablecoin Stability

…the form of deposits, to meet redemption requests in the event of mass withdrawals fully protecting consumers in case of insolvency. United Kingdom (UK) Stablecoins that are fiat-referenced and used…

Are EU algo rules converging?

…just one of the many MiFID II implementation challenges JWG will be covering in our MiFID II implementation training on 24 March in London. We have 3 spare seats so…