The clock to implement Corporate Sustainability Reporting Drive keeps ticking on swiftly ... How prepared are financial services firms? What makes implementing CSRD unique in complexity and is there a way of unlocking wider value via the implementation?  In this episode of Regulated Radio, host Linda Hedqvist is joined by Deloitte’s foremost CSRD experts Yolaine Kermarrec, Insurance Partner, Greg Lowe, Director in Sustainable Finance and Steve Farrell, Head of ESG Assurance to discuss key challenges facing firms and some insights on where firms should be focusing at this crucial moment ..read more

The extremely wide remit of Consumer Duty has meant that firms across financial services have had their hands full over the last couple of years – but what’s next? After the July 2023 deadline, what do firms need to focus on? identifying vulnerable consumers, assessing price and value, and ensuring that robust data is available to monitor and prove good outcomes, are just a few of the things that firms will need to continue work on. In this episode of Regulated Radio, host Isha Gupta interviews experts Kareline Daguer, Director of Insurance at the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy, Charlotte ..read more

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 G ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

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 ..read more

The Financial Conduct Authority has published its final rules for its new Consumer Duty. The Duty raises the standards of consumer protection in retail financial markets. With the introduction of a new Consumer Principle, and a set of cross-cutting rules and outcomes that support it, firms now face a significant task to meet these raised standards of consumer care. In this episode, Deloitte’s regulatory, financial services, and legal experts David Strachan, David Clements, and Jake Ghanty give their quick take on the Duty and how they think it will shape the UK financial services sector ..read more

In this episode, David Strachan and Suchitra Nair from the EMEA Centre for Regulatory Strategy discuss the major market developments that have shaped 2022 so far and what these are likely to mean for the regulation and supervision of financial services firms ..read more

An increasingly complex technological, social, and geopolitical environment means that financial services firms must plan for disruptions to their operations that may not have been conceivable just a decade ago. With the UK financial services regulatory framework for operational resilience having come into force in March, and the EU’s Digital Operational Resilience Act nearing completion, the hard work for firms to build their resilience has just begun. To discuss the implications of this for the financial services industry, and much more, we welcome Sarah Black and Suchitra Nair to the podcas ..read more