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Learn about the EU's Digital Markets Act (DMA), its impact on major online platforms, and how it promotes fair competition and protects consumers in digital markets.

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

CBI's Dear CEO letter urges insurance firms to strengthen consumer protection frameworks, enhance risk management, and align governance for better consumer outcomes.

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

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.

Insight into proposed Consumer Protection Code changes & challenges. Understand implications & prepare with Grant Thornton's expertise

The Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) released a letter highlighting the main findings of its work on asset valuation, which sets out its expectations to be adopted by all firms to mitigate the issues identified in Irish Fund Management Companies (Firms). This report sets out ESMA’s analysis and conclusions on its January 2022 Common Supervisory Action (CSA) exercise and presents ESMA’s views on the findings.

On December 8, 2023, the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) launched the public consultation on the second batch of policy mandates under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This public consultation covers six policy documents that will establish requirements for financial institutions. Read our article to find out more.

Businesses often find it difficult to embrace iterative ways of working without losing the broader vision during the process of making incremental changes. Agile project management can help.

With our finger on the pulse of this ever-evolving industry, we provide intermediaries with practical, cost-effective solutions to address your business needs, from outsourcing, assistance in navigating regulatory landscape developments and their impacts, statutory reporting requirements, to support with mergers and acquisitions.

Ireland has always been known for its green landscapes and rich agricultural background, but with changing climate patterns, dynamic regulatory and legislative plans and evolving consumer demands, the future of Irish agriculture and food is being shaped in new ways.

Ensure compliance with DORA. Discover requirements for cybersecurity resilience, testing standards, and best practices for EU financial service providers.

In 2022, the global economy was expected to recover following the chaos unleashed by the COVID-19 pandemic. However, in 2023, organisations across all sectors still face a myriad of challenges. One of the areas in which Grant Thornton has been able to assist our clients in driving efficiency is through assisting businesses in delivering a ‘Cost Optimisation’ model.