Two regulations amending the EU Securitisation Regulation and the Capital Requirements Regulation (the “CRR“) respectively have now come into force. Regulation (EU) 2021/557 of the European Parliament and of the Council (the “SR Amendment Regulation“) and Regulation (EU) 2021/558 of the European Parliament and of the Council (the “CRR Amendment

The European Banking Authority (the “EBA”) has recently published its report on the feasibility of a framework for simple, transparent and standardised (“STS”) synthetic securitisations (the “EBA Report”). The EBA Report follows a discussion paper published by the EBA on 24 September 2019 (the “EBA Discussion Paper”).