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7/8/2025 8:31:06 PM

Final pieces of DORA rulebook fall into place

By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy

In the last couple of years EU financial entities have been busy implementing the Digital Operational Resilience Act. DORA started to...

7/8/2025 5:19:50 PM

EBA to extend its outsourcing guidelines to cover all third party risks outside DORA

By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy

The European Banking Authority is consulting on new guidelines for the management of third party risk. The guidelines will replace the...

7/4/2025 10:18:44 AM

Qualifying holdings: More detailed EU rules are on the way for prospective acquirors

By Julian Emmerich

The European Banking Authority is consulting on new regulatory technical standards detailing information for acquirors of qualifying...

6/25/2025 8:13:24 AM

ESMA seeks input on how to integrate funds reporting of supervisory data

By Premlata Fagan

Funds reporting in the asset management sector is now subject to significant fragmentation due to the coexistence of several reporting...

6/20/2025 1:34:10 PM

MiCAR and payment services: No dual authorisation for stablecoins required (for now...)

By Marius Raetz James Morris Dr Clemens Boehm

Transactions involving electronic money tokens ('EMTs') are subject to both payment services and crypto-asset regulation, which gives...

6/13/2025 4:11:51 PM

EU seeks input on high-risk AI rules

By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy

The European Commission’s AI Office has opened a survey on high-risk AI systems. Feedback will inform guidelines on the practical...

6/13/2025 3:04:56 PM

EU securities authority turns spotlight on third party risks

By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy

The European Securities and Markets Authority has given regulators a guide for supervising third party risks to the financial sector. EU...

6/4/2025 12:28:53 PM

EU securities authority launches AI survey

By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy

The European Securities and Markets Authority has launched a survey on the take-up of AI in the securities sector. ESMA will use the...

5/23/2025 12:57:49 PM

What’s in STOR? ACER reports on its market surveillance findings

By Oli Palmer Declan Mcloughlin

The Agency for the Cooperation of Energy Regulators has published, for the first time, two reports on energy market surveillance as...

5/20/2025 7:22:28 PM

European Parliament drafts demand for Commission to spell out how financial regulation applies to AI

By Victoria McGowan

A committee of the European Parliament has published a draft report on the impact of artificial intelligence on the financial sector. The...

5/16/2025 2:56:14 PM

EU guidance suggests firms may need to train clients and service providers on AI

By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy

The EU AI Act requires providers and deployers of AI systems to make sure that their staff understand the AI they use. In a new Q&A...

4/16/2025 5:14:24 PM

EU calls for ideas on improving supervision of financial markets

By Raza Naeem Karen Cooper Simon Treacy

The European Commission wants to hear about obstacles to financial market integration. As part of the EU’s new Savings & Investment Union...

4/3/2025 9:43:20 AM

Updated edition - AFME & Linklaters implementation guide on MiFIR / MiFID II reforms in the EU and UK

By Karen Cooper Stephen Clipsham

The Association for Financial Markets in Europe (AFME) and Linklaters have updated our joint implementation guide to help EU and UK firms...

3/25/2025 5:36:24 PM

Payments firms prepare for new EU accessibility standards

By Harry Eddis Olivia Murphy Andreas Van Impe +1 more...

Payments tends to be a volumes business and so payment service providers strive to make their services widely accessible within their...

3/7/2025 11:21:47 AM

Subcontracting rule changes agreed, clearing path towards finalised DORA rulebook

By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy

Even though the Digital Operational Resilience Act started to apply in January, some parts of the DORA regulatory framework have not yet...

3/6/2025 11:17:35 AM

19 March "meet the regulators": Linklaters financial regulatory conference on key topics for 2025

By Karen Cooper Victoria Hickman Simon Treacy

Come and join us for a half-day Spring Outlook conference (register here) on 19 March in our Linklaters London Office where we will be...

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Final pieces of DORA rulebook fall into place

EBA to extend its outsourcing guidelines to cover all third party risks outside DORA

Qualifying holdings: More detailed EU rules are on the way for prospective acquirors

ESMA seeks input on how to integrate funds reporting of supervisory data

MiCAR and payment services: No dual authorisation for stablecoins required (for now...)

EU seeks input on high-risk AI rules

EU securities authority turns spotlight on third party risks

EU securities authority launches AI survey

What’s in STOR? ACER reports on its market surveillance findings

European Parliament drafts demand for Commission to spell out how financial regulation applies to AI

EU guidance suggests firms may need to train clients and service providers on AI

EU calls for ideas on improving supervision of financial markets

Updated edition - AFME & Linklaters implementation guide on MiFIR / MiFID II reforms in the EU and UK

Payments firms prepare for new EU accessibility standards

Subcontracting rule changes agreed, clearing path towards finalised DORA rulebook

19 March "meet the regulators": Linklaters financial regulatory conference on key topics for 2025