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Banking sector

Practical guidance, commentary and support on the banking sector for financial services professionals.

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Continuing Professional Development (CPD)
  • Article
  • 05 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW
Advice on the CPD process for ICAEW members, including keeping a CPD record.
Exclusive Assurance challenges in the context of CSRD
  • Article
  • 20 Mar 2024
  • ICAEW: Financial Services Faculty
Polly Tsang, Senior Financial Services Regulatory Manager, considers some of the challenges of assurance over CSRD.
Exclusive Introduction to PCAF – how to account for GHG emissions related to financial activities
  • Webinar
  • 30 Apr 2024
An overview of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF’s) Standard for measuring and disclosing on the GHG emissions associated with the financial activities of banks, (re)insurers, asset owners and managers.
Exclusive Maintaining stability in the era of stablecoins
  • Article
  • 16 Jan 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
Stablecoins emerge as a prospective form of future money, offering a plausible alternative to traditional fiat paper money and commercial bank deposits.
Exclusive Regulatory update May 2024
  • Article
  • 25 Jun 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from May 2024 affecting UK financial services.
Exclusive Labour’s plans for financial services: evolution rather than revolution
  • Article
  • 14 Mar 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
As the UK gears up for a general election, the parties have been readying their manifesto positions, including for financial services.

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Banking Focus

National Wealth Fund to unlock green and growth investment
  • Article
  • 17 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Fund will bring together UK Infrastructure Bank and the British Business Bank to unlock billions of pounds of investment in the UK’s green and growth industries, government says.
Exclusive Solvent exit planning for UK banks and insurers
  • Article
  • 15 Jul 2024
  • Michelle Adcock, Prudential Banking Sector Lead & Alisa Dolgova, Prudential Insurance Sector Lead, for KPMG
The UK already has a robust resolution regime for banking institutions, which was first implemented in the wake of the Global Financial Crisis. Focus has historically been on the resolvability and exit strategies of the largest ‘too-big-to-fail' banks.
British Business Bank launches Recovery Loan Scheme successor
  • Article
  • 12 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
Running until 31 March 2026, the new Growth Guarantee Scheme aims to support small businesses by offering loans of up to £2m, with 70% government-backed guarantees.
Exclusive Motor Finance: investigation if widespread misconduct
  • Article
  • 05 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
In January 2024 the FCA announced it will investigate whether there is historical evidence of widespread misconduct in relation to sales of motor finance.
Exclusive IFRS 18: Financial services considerations
  • Article
  • 01 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The International Accounting Standard Board recently published IFRS 18, Presentation and Disclosure in Financial Statements. While much of the material is carried across from IAS 1, there are some new requirements, notably affecting the profit and loss disclosures.
Exclusive Attesting time for financial services
  • Article
  • 01 Jul 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
ICAEW’s Financial Services Faculty highlights the potential implications of the new Corporate Governance Code attestation requirement on banks and insurers.
How accountants can help the ‘great unadvised’
  • Article
  • 18 Jun 2024
  • ICAEW Insights
A surge of user-generated online budgeting tools has highlighted the problem of financial advice exclusion. But accountants have the power to close the gap.
Exclusive IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures: commercial banking and mortgage finance sector guidance
  • Article
  • 17 May 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
IFRS S2 Climate-related Disclosures require an entity to disclose information about its climate-related risks and opportunities. The ISSB has published additional sectoral guidance to illustrate how aspects of IFRS S2 requirements may be applied.
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Regulation

Exclusive Regulatory update April 2024
  • Article
  • 13 May 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from April 2024 affecting UK financial services.
Exclusive Regulatory update March 2024
  • Article
  • 25 Apr 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from March 2024 affecting UK financial services.
Exclusive Regulatory update February 2024
  • Article
  • 18 Mar 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from February 2024 affecting UK financial services.
Exclusive Labour’s plans for financial services: evolution rather than revolution
  • Article
  • 14 Mar 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
As the UK gears up for a general election, the parties have been readying their manifesto positions, including for financial services.
Exclusive Regulatory update January 2024
  • Article
  • 23 Feb 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from January 2024 affecting UK financial services.
ICAEW REP 016/24 Regulatory regime for systemic payment systems using stablecoins and related service providers
  • Representation
  • 07 Feb 2024
  • PDF (211kb)
  • ICAEW Digital Assets Working Party
A representation dated 6 February 2024 to a consultation published by the Bank of England on 6 November 2023.
ICAEW REP 015/24 DP 234 Regulating Cryptoassets - phase 1 Stablecoins
  • Representation
  • 07 Feb 2024
  • PDF (394kb)
  • ICAEW Digital Assets Working Party
A representation dated 5 February 2024 to a consultation published by the Financial Conduct Authority on 6 November 2023.
Exclusive Regulatory update December 2023
  • Newsletter
  • 16 Jan 2024
  • ICAEW Financial Services Faculty
The following is a list of some regulatory publications or announcements from December 2023 affecting UK financial services.
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eBooks

The Library & Information Service provides a collection of eBooks as a benefit of membership. Please log in to access these titles. If you are unable to access an eBook, please see our Help and support or contact library@icaew.com.

Exclusive CRR III: the EU implementation of Basel IV- the next generation of risk weighted assets
  • eBook
  • 2023
  • Martin Neisen, Stefan Roth
  • Wiley
Looks at the revised banking package of CRD VI and CRR III - they contain a large number of new requirements - the implementation of which will pose major challenges for the banking industry. In addition to the adoption of the final Basel IV regulations, other topics such as crypto assets or the consideration of ESG in banking supervisory law are addessed in this volume.
Exclusive Principles of banking
  • eBook
  • 2022
  • Moorad Choudhry
  • John Wiley & Sons
A practical guide to the foundations of modern banking and good banking practice, aimed at both professionals and students. The author discusses key aspects of responsible bank stewardship, and gives pointers as to how banking organisations may create a more sustainable business model.
Exclusive Dictionary of finance and banking
  • eBook
  • 2018
  • Jonathan Law
  • Oxford University Press
This sixth edition of the bestselling Dictionary of Finance and Banking has been fully revised and updated to take into account the ever-developing financial landscape of the last five years. This comprehensive A-Z defines terms from all aspects of personal and international finance, including money markets, private investments and borrowing, central banking, foreign exchanges, monetary policy, and public and government finance.
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You are permitted to access, download, copy, or print out content from eBooks for your own research or study only, subject to the terms of use set by our suppliers and any restrictions imposed by individual publishers. Please see individual supplier pages for full terms of use.

Industry guides

Exclusive LIBRARY Credit unions
  • Research guide
This business and industry guide provides a summary of information and resources available for research into the credit union sector, including links to market research reports, statistics, trade bodies and trade journals.
Islamic finance Guide to researching the Islamic finance industry. Quick links to trends, forecasts, market research, statistics and useful organisations.
Exclusive LIBRARY Retail banking industry
  • Research guide
Guide to researching the retail banking industry, covering high street banks. Quick links to trends, forecasts, market research, statistics and useful organisations.

Further resources

Banking journals and magazines A selection of print and electronic periodicals on banking, including a number of online titles which are available only to logged-in members and students.

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