PRA updates remuneration policy statement for PRA category 1 and 2 firm • PRA publishes CP24/17: Solvency II: internal models - modelling of the matching adjustment • PRA publishes CP23/17: Financial management and planning by insurers • Wholesale insurance brokers market study launched by the FCA • The FCA's future approach to consumers • PRA publishes CP22/17: Solvency II: Supervisory approval for the volatility adjustment • FCA publishes PS17/24: Handbook changes to reflect the new regulatory framework for insurance-linked securities - feedback to CP16/34 and CP17/3 and near-final rules

The Paris office of Hogan Lovells is pleased to provide this English language edition of our monthly e-newsletter, which offers a legal and regulatory update covering France and Europe for June 2017.

Please note that French legal concepts are translated into English for information only and not as legal advice. The concepts expressed in English may not exactly reflect or correspond to similar concepts existing under the laws of the jurisdictions of the readers.

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Expect the unexpected: The year ahead for the Financial Institutions Sector 1 Expect the unexpected: The year ahead for the Financial Institutions Sector 1 2 Hogan Lovells Expect the unexpected: The year ahead for the Financial Institutions Sector January 2017 3 Introduction 4 Rachel Kent and Emily Reid At a glance: Calendar of key events 6 Year ahead: Key features 8 FinTech: The future is now 10 PSD2: Getting ahead of the competition?

Brexit

The potential impact of Brexit on securitization transactions

Impact of the referendum

Following the vote in the UK referendum on 23 June 2016 to leave the EU, there is some uncertainty as to how this will impact transactions.

The Pension Protection Fund (PPF) is responsible for paying compensation to members of defined benefit occupational pension schemes where the scheme is in deficit on a PPF funding basis and the employer becomes insolvent. One of the criteria that must be satisfied by a scheme to enter the PPF is that the participating employer(s) suffer a "qualifying insolvency event" (QIE).

Back to the future – but no idea when What Brexit could mean for the Anglo-European restructuring industry What happens now? On 23 June 2016, the UK voted to leave the European Union. The nature of the UK’s relationship with the EU and the rest of the world, post-Brexit (if and when Brexit happens), is uncertain. So what do we know? Actually, we do know several things: – Legally speaking, the referendum result has no immediate effect. It is only advisory.

Summary of miscellaneous French draft legislation
• Draft law granting amnesty for acts committed in the course of social movements and trade unions' protesting activities – Filed on
November 28, 2012 – Adopted in first reading by the Senate on February 27, 2013 – A vote for a referral to commission was adopted
during the first session on May 16, 2013.
• Draft law relating to social and solidarity-based economy, n°805 – filed on July 24, 2013 – adopted in first reading by the Senate on
November 7, 2013.

On 9 April 2014, the Commission published proposals to amend the existing Shareholder Rights Directive (2007/36/EC).

The proposal for a regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council (SWD(2012) 416 and SWD(2012) 417) amending Council Regulation (EC) n°1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings aims to extend its scope of application by revising the definition of insolvency proceedings to include the proceedings in which the debtor retains some control albeit subject to the control / supervision by a court / a judicial administrator, including preinsolvency proceedings.

Following a broad consultation, the European Commission presented, on 13 December 2012, its proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and of the Council amending Council Regulation (EC) n°1346/2000 on insolvency proceedings. Ten years after the Regulation's entry into force, the Commission has deemed it necessary to amend it in order to solve difficulties related to its practical implementation.