26 June 2019
In her speech, Vicky Saporta explains why the PRA has to be robust but flexible when responding to the future challenges. Technology is transforming the financial system she says. And UK regulators must have the powers and tools to respond flexibly to the opportunities and risks it brings. Vicky also outlines the PRA’s approach to liquidity policy now the international banking reforms are in place. She set out three priority issues for implementation: cashflow mismatch risk, the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) and asset encumbrance.
19 June 2019
In her speech, Anna Sweeney talks about the initiatives we’ve designed to encourage greater diversity in our workforce.
5 June 2019
In his speech, Lyndon Nelson welcomes a joint report by CityUK and PWC on operational resilience in the UK financial sector. The report has recommendations for both the industry and regulators. Lyndon highlights the importance of strong collaboration when it comes to building resilience in the financial sector.
4 June 2019
UK financial firms have started to integrate artificial intelligence and machine learning into their operations. But, they must also understand the implications for governance in order to identify and manage the associated risks. In his speech, James gives three principles firms can use when they’re thinking about how to do this.
30 May 2019
The Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) and PRA have fined R. Raphael & Sons plc (‘Raphaels’) for failing to manage its outsourcing arrangements properly between April 2014 and December 2016.
13 June 2019
This PRA Policy Statement (PS) provides feedback to responses to Consultation Paper (CP) 9/19 ‘Regulated fees and levies: Rates proposals 2019/20’ (page 2 of 2), and sets out the PRA’s final policy.
This PS is relevant to all firms that currently pay PRA fees or are expecting to do so within the 2019/20 fee year (the 2019/20 fee year began on 1 March 2019 and will end on 29 February 2020).
Update: PS5/19 ‘The Bank of England’s amendments to financial services legislation under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018’
PS5/19 ‘The Bank of England’s amendments to financial services legislation under the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018’ was updated to add Appendix B.2A which makes a small amendment to the PRA Rulebook: (EU Exit) Instrument 2019 in Appendix B.2. This updates the date on which new liquidity reporting rules are commenced, to take account of the extension of the Article 50 negotiating period and consequent change in exit day.
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7 June 2019
This CP proposes minor amendments to PRA Rulebook Parts, supervisory statements (SSs), and the relevant templates and LOG files.
The chapters in this CP are relevant to different firms, as follows:
The consultation closes on Wednesday 7 August 2019.
During the consultation period, the PRA will be issuing a Public Working Draft (PWD) of the taxonomy update to support collection of the proposed changes to National Specific Templates, internal model output, market risk sensitivities and standard formula reporting. The PWD will include the interaction of these changes with the draft EIOPA Taxonomy 2.4 changes. The PRA plans to give firms no less than three weeks to review the PWD.
7 June 2019
In this CP, the PRA sets out its proposal to amend the prescribed responsibility (PR) for recovery plans and resolution packs that forms part of the Senior Managers and Certification Regime for strengthening individual accountability. It also sets out consequential changes to SS28/15 ‘Strengthening individual accountability in banking’ and the form ‘Senior Managers Regime: Statement of Responsibilities’ (‘SoR form’), together with other administrative changes to this form.
The proposed amendment to the PR is relevant to those UK banks and building societies with £50 billion or more in retail deposits on an individual or consolidated basis at the date of their most recent annual accounts.
The proposed amendments to the SoR form are relevant to all PRA-regulated firms including credit unions and small non-Directive insurers.
The consultation closes on Wednesday 7 August 2019.
6 June 2019
The PRA Annual Report 2019 includes information about its activities for the year ended 28 February 2019, and also contains some of their other reporting obligations.
Readers may also wish to refer to the Bank of England Annual Report and Accounts – 2019 – also published on Thursday 6 June – which contains the Bank’s financial and other disclosures in respect of its activities as the PRA.
As part of the PRA’s commitment to streamline the publication of its reporting obligations, it also published the:
6 June 2019
The Practitioner Panel and Insurance Sub-committee Annual Report 2019 was published.
5 June 2019
The PRA and FCA share key themes and good practice, and set out next steps for the transition from LIBOR.
Last Orders: Calling Time on LIBOR. Speeches and links to material available as discussed at the conference held on 5 June to discuss LIBOR transition to alternative risk-free reference rates.
20 June 2019
In this CP, the PRA sets out its proposal to amend the reporting frequency of the PRA110 reporting template, when a firm is in stress.
The proposals in this CP would make amendments to:
This CP is relevant to PRA-authorised UK banks, building societies, and PRA-designated UK investment firms, referred to collectively as ‘firms’ with total assets of £5 billion or above, calculated in accordance with Council Directive 86/635/EEC.
This consultation closes on Friday 27 September 2019.
19 June 2019
This letter to CEOs from Melanie Beaman (Director, UK Deposit-takers Supervision) communicates the PRA’s wider overall findings from its review, and highlights in bold the aspects of risk management and control that the PRA considers all firms should be adopting.
17 June 2019
This PRA PS provides feedback to responses to CP6/19 ‘Pillar 2 liquidity: Updates to the framework’. It also contains the PRA’s final policy with updates to:
This PS is relevant to UK banks, building societies, PRA-designated investment firms, and non-EU EEA banks, referred to collectively as ‘firms’ in this PS.
For further information on CRD IV visit the CRD IV updates page.
For new banks, please see the New Banks Start-up Unit page.
For information on banking regulatory returns and how to report them, visit the Regulatory reporting – banking sector page.
For details of forms used to collect data through the online statistical data application (OSCA), visit the Forms, definitions, and validation page.
19 June 2019
This letter to Chief Actuaries of life insurers is part of the ongoing dialogue between the PRA and the UK insurance sector. The purpose of this letter is to share observations from the PRA’s regulatory activities in the past 12 months which are specifically relevant to Chief Actuaries of life insurers, and to signpost other important PRA initiatives that these Chief Actuaries should be aware of.
18 June 2019
Following the request for technical input in a letter to firms on Thursday 11 April 2019, the PRA has launched its biennial insurance stress test and is asking the largest regulated life and general insurers to provide information about the impact of a range of stress tests on their business. For general insurers, the PRA is coordinating some of the scenarios with the Bermuda Monetary Authority.
The deadline for submission is as follows:
Questions about the Insurance Stress Test can be sent to IST2019@bankofengland.co.uk.
For further information on Solvency II visit the Solvency II updates page.
For further information for non-Directive firms visit the non-Directive firms page.
For information on insurance regulatory returns and how to report them, visit the Regulatory reporting – insurance sector page.
Mark Carney, Governor of the Bank of England gave a speech ‘Enable, empower, ensure: a new finance for the new economy’ at the Mansion House Bankers’ and Merchants’ Dinner, London. In his speech, the Governor outlined the findings of Huw van Steenis’ report into the future of finance and set out how the Bank will respond to this.
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