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Financial Stability Board urges nations to prepare for nonbank leverage risks July 10, 2025 | Neil Roland

Nations should form domestic frameworks to capture nonbank leverage risks to financial stability that have inflamed a number of market crises in recent years, the Financial Stability Board said. Nonbank financ... (more story)

UK to set out plans for new service to help foreign investors with regulations July 10, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

UK finance minister Rachel Reeves is expected to announce details next Tuesday of a new service to help foreign investors navigate the country's financial regulations as part of a wider drive to attract foreig... (more story)

KakaoPay tells South Korean court Alipay data transfer was lawful processing July 10, 2025 | Jenny Lee

South Korean online payment giant KakaoPay argued in court today that its transmission of user data to China’s Alipay was a lawful act of commissioned processing — not an illegal third-party transfer — pushing... (more story)

Wise US fined by state regulators over failures in anti-money laundering compliance July 09, 2025 | Samuel Rubenfeld

Wise US, a New York-based subsidiary of the UK international financial transfer firm, agreed to pay $4.2 million to resolve investigations by five state regulators over failures in its anti-money laundering co... (more story)

'Inappropriate' to insist pension funds invest in UK, BOE's Bailey says July 09, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

A draft UK law that could see pension funds forced to invest in domestic assets drew a challenge from Bank of England governor Andrew Bailey today. he told a press conference that while a review of the pension... (more story)

UK banks' capital rules to be reviewed by BOE for first time in five years July 09, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

The Bank of England will review UK banks' capital requirements for the first time in five years, with an update foreseen in December, the central bank has said today. The update came as the BOE's Financial Pol... (more story)

EU bank resolution text not expected to be finalized before September July 09, 2025 | Fanny Roux

EU countries are not expected to adopt the final text on the bank resolution framework until after the EU summer break, with technical work resuming in September. The Council of the EU and the European Parliam... (more story)

Mastercard's Vocalink fined GBP11.9 million by BOE for compliance failures July 09, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

Mastercard’s payment systems firm Vocalink has been fined 11.9 million pounds ($16.2 million) for compliance failures by the Bank of England, the first time the central bank has fined a financial market infrastructure firm.

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Comment: Increasingly divided US Fed splits on changing supervisory rating framework July 11, 2025 | Neil Roland

A US Federal Reserve that has become increasingly divided on regulatory matters during the Trump administration issued a bank-friendly proposal yesterday to revise its supervisory rating framework for large ba... (more story)

First provisional agreements on EU retail investment plan mark fresh start July 11, 2025 | Fanny Roux

EU governments and lawmakers this week provisionally agreed on several provisions including “finfluencers” and financial education during a meeting on the Retail Investment Strategy legal package, sources in b... (more story)

BOE might need to move further on regulation to attract stablecoin providers July 10, 2025 | Phoebe Seers

The Bank of England may have signaled a more favorable approach to stablecoins, but it has not eased industry concerns that the UK’s regulatory regime still lacks clarity on which of the digital currencies wou... (more story)

Quarles' FSB appointment elicits criticism for hands-off regulatory approach July 09, 2025 | Neil Roland

The Financial Stability Board’s appointment of Randal Quarles to review the status of post-2008 reforms has raised the hackles of a senior US Senate Democrat who said it could be “putting the international fin... (more story)

Data processing by businesses scrutinized as US enforces cross-border rule July 09, 2025 | Xu Yuan and Maria Dinzeo

A broad swath of businesses’ data-processing activities could be subject to scrutiny under US rules targeting access to American data by foreign countries considered as adversaries, as a grace period ends and ... (more story)

Denmark steers EU securitization negotiations toward a deal by year-end July 08, 2025 | Fanny Roux

Stephanie Lose, Denmark’s Finance Minister, today elaborated on the way to reaching an agreement on a revamped securitization framework “as soon as possible this year.” Speaking at Ecofin — a meeting of EU fin... (more story)

Lack of competition clears path for EuroCTP to become EU equity tape provider July 02, 2025 | Sofia Gerace

A consortium backed by all 15 EU exchanges has emerged as the only official applicant to run the bloc’s equity consolidated tape, a repository of data on shares and exchange-traded funds backed by the European... (more story)

Ex-Barclays chief's failed UK court gamble set to embolden regulator June 26, 2025 | Martin Coyle and Sofia Gerace

Former Barclays boss Jes Staley's failure to persuade a UK court to overturn an industry ban over his links to Jeffrey Epstein is a vindication for the country's financial services regulator — and will likely ... (more story)