Expertise
• Capital requirements (CRR, CRD IV, Solvency II, Investment Firm Regulation)
- qualitative requirements for regulatory capital;
- quantification of credit risk, operational risk and market risk, including matters concerning counterparty risk and CVA;
- quantitative and qualitative aspects of liquidity management; and
- consolidated and supplemental supervision of groups and financial conglomerates.
• Derivatives
- reporting requirements
- ISDA Documentation
• Early intervention measures by prudential supervisory authorities
- portfolio transfers
- risk mitigation structures
- similar crisis management measures
- Maximum Distributable Amount (MDA)
• Payment services and electronic money institution regulations
- rules on infrastructure of payments and clearing and settlement:
- market entry for payment services providers and electronic money institutions;
- SEPA Credit Transfer, Direct Debit and Direct Debit B2B Rule Book matters;
- oversight frameworks for electronic payments, credit card and debit cards and secure payments; and
- AML-CFT-Sanctions regulations for payments services industry, particularly issues concerning (automated) transaction monitoring.
• Securitisations
- regulations aspects and similar credit risk transfer and mitigation techniques
• Suitability and fit & proper testing
- executive and non-executive directors of financial institutions
• Systemically important institutions (G-SII and O-SII)
- qualification and regulation
- macro-prudential supervision
- systemic risk measures