On March 20, 2015, the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority issued a press release stating that it has imposed a fine of €3.25m on BlackRock Investment Management (UK) Ltd...

EU Commission, Parliament and Council are entering the critical stage of negotiations on reviewed versions of the AIFM and the UCITS Directive.

After more than a year of discussions, and many years of preparation, the long-awaited reform of the ELTIF regulation has been adopted by the European Parliament on (15 February 2023).

On 3 November 2017, the German regulator for the financial sector, the Federal Financial Supervisory Authority ("BaFin"), published a new circular titled Rundschreiben 10/2017 (BA) vom 3. November 2017 – Bankaufsichtliche Anforderungen an die IT (in English: Circular 10/2017 – Regulatory Requirements for IT-Systems – "BAIT").

On June 7, 2017, the Federal Reserve Board authorized an extension of up to five (5) years for Deutsche Bank AG, SVB Financial Group,...

The reasoning of the decision has now been published and provides a number of answers to questions which are important for future contractual netting arrangements.

In our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from our EMEA offices provide an update on some of the key regulatory issues they are seeing in their local market.

In our EMEA regulatory insights series colleagues from our EMEA offices provide an update on some of the key regulatory issues they are seeing in their local market.

Alteri Investors, Duff & Phelps, and Debtwire have produced a report discussing the retail debt market within Europe.

The difficulty of obtaining finance for the SME sector was under the spotlight at a panel discussion at the International Bar Association's

Die Reform des europäischen Verbriefungsmarktes enthält richtige Ansätze, doch die erwartbaren Änderungen an den Verordnungen sind zu zaghaft. Mit dem Eintritt in das Trilog-Verfahren zwischen Kommission, Rat und Europäischem Parlament erreicht die Reform des europäischen Verbriefungsrechts ihre entscheidende Phase.

On May 24, 2023, the EU Commission published the hotly debated retail investment package. Private investors are to be increasingly encouraged to invest in the capital market.

BAFIN has recently indicated to industry and other EU regulators that it will require foreign UCITS registered to distribute in Germany to be compliant with the application by BAFIN of the IOSCO...

Der Europäische Gerichtshof hat entschieden, dass Sollzinssätze bei Verbraucherkrediten nur auf den tatsächlich bereitgestellten Kreditbetrag angewendet werden dürfen – nicht auf mitfinanzierte Kreditkosten wie Versicherungsprämien oder Gebühren. Diese Klarstellung hat weitreichende Folgen für Kreditgeber in der gesamten EU, die ihre Produktgestaltung, Preislogik und Kundenunterlagen entsprechend anpassen müssen. Besonders betroffen sind Banken und Anbieter von

The Transposition Act for the Second EU Directive on Payment Services (PSD2) has been in force since January 13, 2018

Today's guest details how European regulators are changing their approach to regulating Europe's markets and what that means for the financial services firms under their supervision.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and more recently its sister European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)

Fit and proper assessments are key supervisory tools in the EU but also in the Eurozone and its Banking Union.

Dr. Martin Heuber has taken the helm as Managing Partner of Mayer Brown in Germany, succeeding Guido Zeppenfeld in this leadership role. What strategic priorities is this banking and finance expert setting in the current market climate, and how are debt funds performing under his guidance?

Last Friday, Michael Barr, the Federal Reserve Board's ("FRB") Vice Chair for Supervision, delivered remarks to the ECB Forum on Banking Supervision in Frankfurt, Germany entitled The Importance of Effective Liquidity Risk Management.