Financial Regulation Weekly Bulletin - 18 November 2021

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General

• Pre-paid funeral plans - FCA publishes Dear CEO letter

Beyond Brexit

• Solvency II - HM Treasury publishes draft Regulations and explanatory guidance

Banking and Finance

• Real-time gross settlement systems - CPMI publishes Consultative Report
• Climate-related financial risks - Basel Committee publishes Consultation Paper
• European Payment Institutions Federation - Commissioner McGuinness delivers speech at annual conference
• CRR - Commission Implementing Regulation on mapping tables published in OJ
• ESEP and EREP - EBA publishes two programmes
• NSFR - EBA publishes report on the functioning of precious metals markets
• PSD2 - European Commission publishes call for advice
• Securitisation Regulation - ECB consults on draft Guide on securitisation transaction notification
• FPC O-SII buffer framework - Bank of England publishes Consultation Paper
• Domestic liquidity sub-groups - PRA publishes Policy Statement
• CRR - PRA publishes webpage
• Debt packagers - FCA publishes Consultation Paper
• APP scams - PSR publishes Consultation Paper
• SME Banking Undertakings - CMA publishes letter to Danske Bank

Securities and Markets

• Commodity derivatives markets - IOSCO publishes Consultation Report on regulation and supervision
• LIBOR - ESMA publishes letter to European Commission
• LIBOR - ESMA publishes Final Report
• CCP Recovery and Resolution Regulation - ESMA publishes six Consultation Papers
• Critical Benchmarks (References and Administrators’ Liability) Bill - House of Lords publishes updated explanatory notes
• Market conduct - FCA publishes Primary Market Bulletin No. 36 and Primary Market Technical Note
• Market conduct - FCA publishes Market Watch issue 68
• LIBOR - FCA publishes statement on legacy use of synthetic LIBOR rates and no new use of US dollar LIBOR, together with draft Notices and Feedback Statement FS21/11
• Structured reporting - FCA and FRC publish joint Dear CEO letter

Asset Management

• IFD - SREP - ESMA and EBA publish joint Consultation Paper
• IFR - Pillar 2 requirements - EBA publishes Consultation Paper on draft RTS

Insurance

• Diversity, equity and inclusion - IAIS publishes statement
• Liquidity metrics - IAIS publishes Consultation Document
• Solvency II - European Commission publishes Implementing Regulation for calculating technical provisions and basic own funds

Enforcement

• AML - FCA fines Sunrise Brokers