EIOPA's review of the Solvency II framework, the purpose of which was to ensure that the Solvency II regime remains fit for purpose, concluded with the submission to the European Commission and publication of EIOPA's ...

The London interbank offered rate ("LIBOR") is currently in the news due to a rate manipulation scandal that erupted in the UK. The scandal looks likely to have an impact on a variety of financial entities.

An authorised UCITS ManCo is required to hold minimum regulatory capital of at least €125,000 plus 0.02% of its assets...

The Amendments to the CRR acknowledge this by including new provisions which clarify how risk weighting with respect to a securitisation of NPEs should be calculated.

Ireland has transposed Article 21c of the Capital Requirements Directive VI into domestic law through a statutory instrument signed on July 10, 2026. The transposition adopts a faithful copy-out approach, maintaining full alignment with European-level requirements without introducing additional restrictions or clarifications, though no explanatory guidance will be published by Irish authorities.

EIOPA publishes second set of Solvency II guidelines and draft ITS

On 5 December 2019 the European Supervisory Authorities (ESMA, EIOPA and the EBA, the "ESAs") published a final report and draft Regulatory Technical Standards ("RTS") ...

Regulation (EU) 2022/2036 (the ‘daisy chain' regulation which introduces targeted adjustments to improve the resolvability of banks) has been published in the Official Journal.

You will be aware that the Central Bank has recently introduced a new fitness and probity regime which consists of the following...

The Central Bank of Ireland ("Central Bank") has introduced a new regime to regulate the "fitness and probity" of directors, senior managers and other office holders of regulated financial services providers.

As the EU's CRD VI regulations introduce sweeping changes to cross-border banking operations, non-EU banks face a critical deadline of January 2027 to establish licensed branches or restructure their service delivery models.

Trilogues have successfully concluded on the Basel III reform package. While the provisionally-agreed text is not yet available, the EU Council confirmed this morning that agreement...

The Central Bank of Ireland (the "Central Bank") has published its Enforcement Priorities for 2012 which identifies ten priority areas for enforcement activity in the year ahead.

The purpose of this briefing note is to provide information on the review by the Central Bank of the business plans for UCITS selfmanaged investment companies ("SMICs").

An opinion on approaches by group supervisors to third country capital requirements has been published by EIOPA.

The High Level Forum (the "HLF") set up by the European Commission has earlier this month published a report on the creation of a true single EU capital market (the "Report").

In September 2019, the EBA announced its intention to give clarity on grandfathering measures in relation to the Capital Requirements Regulation in 2020; we wrote about this shortly after that announcement.

The European Banking Authority ("EBA") recently published a report (the "Report") setting out its proposals for developing a simple, transparent and standardised ("STS")...