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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.

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Discover the ECB's latest draft guidance on governance and risk culture.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.

Stay compliant with EIOPA's new guidelines for captive insurers. Learn about cash pooling risks, prudent person principles, and governance in our detailed update.

Explore the role of the Head of Actuarial Function (HoAF) in addressing climate change risks in the (re)insurance sector, including responsibilities, CBI requirements, and latest guidance from IFoA.

Discover the MiCA authorisation process for 2024, its impact on EU frameworks like MiFID and DORA, and EBA’s new prudential guidance.

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.

The CBI has released its 2024/2025 Regulatory & Supervisory Outlook which sets out key trends, risk drivers and outlooks shaping the (re)insurance sector. Read our latest insight to find out more.

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.

The UK Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) has produced draft rules for overseas funds being distributed to UK investors. These rules are being put in place for funds from jurisdictions where the UK Government has issued an ’Equivalence’ decision. Read this article to find out more about the new requirements.

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.

On 30 January, the Central Bank published Guidance for (Re)insurance Undertakings on Intragroup Transactions and Exposures following a consultation that ended in September 2022.

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Following stakeholder consultation, the Central Bank of Ireland (CBI) has published ‘Guidance for (Re)Insurance Undertakings on Climate Change Risk’. The following are the key areas outlined for re(insurers) to integrate climate change risk: Appropriate Governance, Materiality Assessment, Scenario Analysis, Strategy & Business Model, Risk Appetite & Risk Management and Reporting.