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Enhance third-party management with these four tips for DORA compliance. Learn how to identify risks, update contracts, and improve oversight to meet regulatory requirements.

DORA aims to enhance banking resilience in Ireland by enforcing proactive ICT-risk management, safeguarding digital services, and strengthening third-party oversight.

EU modernises payments and strengthens consumer protection with new regulations, enhancing competition, security, and data access for financial institutions and fintech.

Explore the evolving risks and regulatory challenges in banking by 2025. Learn how to adapt with robust risk management and stay ahead of ECB and CBI expectations.

Discover the ECB's latest draft guidance on governance and risk culture. Learn key areas banks must address to align with regulatory expectations by October 2024.

Are you ready for the Digital Operational Resilience Act? From January 2025, all financial entities in the EU must comply. Start your journey to compliance with our five practical steps to ensure you're prepared.

Discover how the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) enhances ICT risk management for EU financial entities. Learn about compliance requirements and penalties.

Explore key updates from the ESA report on the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA), highlighting crucial changes for financial entities to ensure compliance by January 2025.

Is your business prepared for IT outages? Learn how a recent global disruption highlights the need for robust third-party risk management and digital resilience.

Prepare for new EU banking rules (CRR III & CRD VI) with Grant Thornton's regulatory & risk advisory team. Leverage our experts for gap assessments, implementation & more. Local & EU-wide support.

This ECB paper is relevant to banks with derivatives and trading books; it explores the operational aspects and hidden costs associated with the wind-down of a bank’s trading book. An orderly wind-down of a trading book may be a recovery option or an element of a bank’s preferred resolution strategy. This paper details principles of ECB’s supervisory expectations with respect to both recovery and resolution planning.

The Central Bank of Ireland (‘CBI’) has recently issued its latest Anti-Money Laundering Bulletin, focussing on the Virtual Asset Service Provider (‘VASP’) sector. In this bulletin, the CBI has provided its observations on a number of significant and widespread deficiencies across authorisation applications received from VASPs where roughly 90% of all applications are not meeting the required standard.

While there has been much discussion of sustainability and ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) factors in relation to the banking sector in recent times, the reality is that much if not all regulatory instruments to date have focused on a subsection of ‘E’; climate change. Several factors have contributed to this including its actual and predicted impacts, political and social momentum, as well as a growing body of research that facilitates quantification of the associated risks