2/21/2025 10:38:14 AM DORA: ESAs set out roadmap towards the designation of critical ICT third-party service providers and Commission adopts RTS on threat-led penetration testing By Victoria McGowan Stephen Clipsham The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have provided a roadmap to move forward with designating critical ICT third-party service...
2/19/2025 10:59:48 AM Payments strategic alliances - the why, how and what to look out for By Olivia Murphy Strategic partnerships or alliances are on the rise in the payments and fintech space and in recent weeks we have seen traditional banks...
1/31/2025 1:28:20 PM Commission rejects DORA subcontracting rules By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy The European Commission has formally rejected draft rules on monitoring ICT supply chains under the Digital Operational Resilience Act....
1/23/2025 10:32:24 AM EU shares key guidance on DORA By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy Can a financial service be an ICT service? This question often came up in the course of implementing the EU’s Digital Operational...
1/17/2025 5:33:18 PM Payments in 2025 #5 – AI in payments By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less The payments industry has a strong track record of using AI to help spot and stop fraud. Now, as they explore other opportunities to...
1/16/2025 8:55:11 PM DORA deadline day arrives: Here are five things firms still need to do By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy Even as the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act comes into effect, more work remains to be done. After a two-year implementation...
1/13/2025 4:55:05 PM Payments in 2025 #1 – Operational resilience By Harry Eddis Richard Hay Frances Hodgkins Olivia Murphy Arjun Lakhani Fiona Garrahan +3 more... Show less Operational resilience rules will start to be enforced in the EU and UK this year. Payments firms can anticipate more scrutiny about...
12/18/2024 11:24:17 AM EU says good-quality DORA registers are within reach By Raza Naeem James Morris Frances Hodgkins Simon Treacy +1 more... Show less Earlier this year around 1,000 firms took part in a “dry-run” to test the process for reporting registers under the EU’s Digital...
11/19/2024 12:06:21 PM Bank of England drafts fundamental rules for financial market infrastructure By James Morris Simon Treacy In a consultation the Bank of England proposes requiring UK financial market infrastructure to meet 10 new Fundamental Rules. The rules...
11/15/2024 1:24:53 PM Shaping resilience: the UK’s new blueprint for critical third parties to the financial sector By Declan Mcloughlin Simon Treacy Duncan Campbell Newly finalised rules on the regulation of critical third parties (CTPs) will soon add a new dimension to the UK’s operational resilience...
7/30/2024 11:22:02 AM The missing DORA technical standard on subcontracting is found By Harry Eddis Raza Naeem James Morris Olivia Murphy +1 more... Show less The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have finalised their much-anticipated technical standard on subcontracting ICT services...
7/17/2024 8:41:05 PM ESAs finalise second batch of DORA Level 2 rules – but one is missing… By Raza Naeem James Morris Simon Treacy The European Supervisory Authorities have finalised more technical standards under the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act. EU...
7/4/2024 12:31:30 PM EU institutions explore AI in financial services By Simon Treacy As our mid-year legal outlook shows, the legal impact of AI adoption is not limited to the tech sector. Financial services firms are...
4/11/2024 5:02:02 PM EU regulators offer dry run of DORA register reporting By Raza Naeem Simon Treacy European financial firms can try out a key aspect of their DORA compliance this summer. Firms should get in touch with their regulators...
10/9/2023 10:41:50 AM How critical is critical? European Supervisory Authorities issue DORA Technical Advice By Simon Treacy Jamie Johnson DORA, the EU’s regime for operational resilience, imposes obligations on technology firms providing critical services to the financial...
9/29/2023 8:45:11 AM EU shows how daunting DORA is by mapping how tech firms support financial services By Raza Naeem Jimi Piggott-Bader Simon Treacy Survey suggests financial firms use a wide range of ICT providers……but rely on a relatively small group to support their most important...