The Prudential Regulation Authority’s supervisory statement (SS1/23) on model risk management principles for banks is due to take effect from 17 May 2024. Given that the statement was released in May 2023, banks have had some time to digest it, however careful consideration will be required to ensure that banks’ model risk governance, controls, policies, processes, and reporting meet the PRA’s expectations. In this episode of Regulated Radio, Rod Hardcastle is joined by Deloitte Partner Ian Wilson to discuss the five key principles of SS1/23, the associated challenges banks face and how banks can minimise the costs of meeting these new expectations.

The 2024 Sustainability Regulation Outlook report is now live! It covers the key implications of sustainability related regulations across financial services and non-financial services. The report contains key insights on pivotal topics with crucial consequences for financial services and the real economy such as decarbonisation, greenwashing, sustainability reporting and circularity. In this episode, Isha Gupta from the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy is joined by authors of the report and senior managers in Deloitte’s Sustainability Regulation Hub, Magda Puzniak-Holford and Ramon Bravo Gonzalez to discuss what firms should be focusing on to prepare for the deluge of sustainability related regulations. The trio are privileged to be joined by Jane Gimber, Head of Sustainability from Fleishman Hillard a consulting firm based in Brussels, who provides key insights on the impact that the upcoming European Parliamentary elections will have on all of this.

What’s in store for 2024? What are the emerging risks and structural trends that are shaping the regulatory and supervisory agenda, and how should financial services firms respond? In this episode of Regulated Radio, Alex Spooner is joined by Suchitra Nair and David Strachan to explore these questions and a range of topics, including geopolitical risks, tech and innovation, sustainable finance, prudential reform and the Consumer Duty.

The transition towards Net Zero and the adoption of other Environmental, Social and Governance, or ESG standards, is leading to a massive expansion of regulatory scrutiny and activity in the marketplace. This relatively new area of regulation is challenging many firms to keep up with the pace of change. In this episode of Regulated Radio, Scott Martin is joined by Deloitte’s EMEA Sustainability Regulation Hub experts, Magda Puzniak-Holford and Ramon Bravo Gonzalez, to discuss how sustainability is changing the way companies operate, how regulators are expanding their activity in this area, and what this means for firms across different sectors.

The global banking sector has experienced a period of instability this year. Starting in March, a string of bank failures in the United States and Europe created uncertainty in the market and raised doubts about what would happen next.  In this episode of Regulated Radio, Scott Martin is joined by Deloitte’s Centre for Regulatory Strategy Leads, David Strachan and Irena Gecas-McCarthy, to discuss the period of banking sector stress seen earlier this year, the immediate supervisory response to it, and the regulatory changes we may see emerge in its aftermath.

In recent years, the easy availability of sustainable funds in the retail markets and the increasing amount of money flowing into these funds have made greenwashing a hot topic in the investment management sector. Regulators in the UK and EU are clearly aware of the potential for greenwashing in this industry and are attempting to tackle it through a range of regulatory initiatives. In this episode of Regulated Radio, Scott Martin is joined by Deloitte’s ESG in investment management experts Jessica Hodges and Stuart Royden-Turner to discuss the key greenwashing challenges facing the industry at the moment, and in particular the role of ESG data in this story.

In this episode of Regulated Radio, Scott Martin is joined by David Strachan and Suchitra Nair to explore the major regulatory trends affecting the Financial Services Industry in 2023, along with a range of topics including climate-related financial risk management, digital assets and payments, prudential capital frameworks for banks and insurers, and operational resilience.

In this episode, our experts Toby Roxburgh, UK Nature and Biodiversity Lead and Simon Brennan, EMEA Sustainability Regulatory Strategy Lead, join host Scott Martin to explore what ‘nature risk’ is, how it relates to climate risk and what businesses should be doing to prepare for nature-related regulation. Tune in to learn more about how the wider nature and biodiversity agenda is rapidly coming up on climate’s coat tails.

Our latest paper explores the key regulatory considerations across four key thematic areas: consumers, data, resilience, and governance and accountability, and how these will affect firms’ strategies around embedded finance. In this episode, Suchitra Nair from the Centre for Regulatory Strategy and Richard Kibble, UK Banking Leader, discuss the current embedded finance landscape, the risks, opportunities and strategic considerations for firms. Our guests then offer some predictions for what they expect to see in the embedded finance market over the next 12-months.

In June we published a report intended to help wholesale banks in the EU and UK develop a digital assets strategy in the context of an evolving regulatory landscape. In this episode Deloitte’s financial services, regulatory and legal experts Suchitra Nair, Ed Moorby and Clare Jenkinson discuss some of the key considerations, both strategic and regulatory, for banks looking to build out their digital assets business.