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...

On 6 November 2025, the Central Bank of Ireland ("Central Bank") published a settlement notice ("Settlement Notice") announcing that it has fined Coinbase Europe Limited...

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.

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...

The Directive focuses on consumer financial services contracts concluded at a distance. It repeals Directive 2002/65/EC concerning the distance marketing of consumer financial services and amends the 2011 Consumer Rights Directive...

On 23 October 2025, the Council of the European Union ("the Council") adopted its 19th package of sanctions against Russia ("the 19th package") in response to Russia's war against Ukraine.

As part of significant reforms to the UCITS and AIFMD frameworks, Directive (EU) 2024/927 (Omnibus Directive) amends both the UCITS Directive...