Ireland: Finance and Banking

On 5 June 2025, the European Commission published a consultation regarding a draft Delegated Decision on the renewal of the equivalence...

The European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the list of minimum information to be provided to the relevant competent authority at the time of the notification of the proposed acquisition of qualifying holdings in a credit institution closes on 18 September 2025.

The European Commission has just published a draft delegated regulation to amend the Solvency II Delegated Regulation and create a revised prudential framework...

The pace of change with regard to attitudes, laws and regulations on climate change matters in the ten years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement in 2015 has been head spinning.

The European Commission's 2026 Work Programme, which was published on 21 October 2025 (the "Work Programme"), sets out an ambitious and pragmatic legislative agenda for next year.

The proposed changes in the Draft Regulation aim to address several challenges in the current Solvency II framework, including excessive sensitivity to short-term market volatility...

If Budget 2025 was the ‘Windfall Budget' with one-off measures aplenty for all, with controls cast off in anticipation of an election...

The European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultations on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and guidelines relating to the new framework for third-country branches...

In the recent decision of Pepper v O'Reilly[1], delivered on 8 July 2025, the Court of Appeal considered the correct procedural steps in an appeal of a Circuit Court Order for Possession...

Acknowledging several shortcomings in the existing SFDR framework, the reforms are intended to simplify and reduce the burden of sustainability-related disclosures and requirements under the SFDR and improve end investors' ability to understand and compare sustainability-related financial products.

On 17 November 2025, the European Commission published delegated regulations adopting the final regulatory technical standards ("RTS") on liquidity management tools ("LMTs"), supplementing AIFMD and the UCITS Directive.

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has published a Market Report on the Total Costs of Investing in UCITS and AIFs (the Report).