UK Government Releases Post-Brexit Draft Legislation for Deposit Protection

HM Treasury has published draft Deposit Guarantee Scheme and Miscellaneous Provisions (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2018. The draft regulations are expected to be laid before Parliament in autumn 2018 and to come into force mostly on the day the U.K. withdraws from the EU. These draft regulations are part of HM Treasury's measures to onshore EU legislation under the provisions of the European Union (Withdrawal) Act 2018. The key changes proposed are:

• transferring the power to review, adjust and set the coverage level from EU bodies to the Prudential Regulation Authority, with approval from HMT; and
• removing the cooperation arrangement under which the U.K. Financial Services Compensation Scheme administers compensation payments to depositors at U.K. branches of EEA banks on behalf of EEA deposit guarantee schemes. A transitional provision will allow the FSCS to continue after Brexit to accept instructions and funds from EEA DGS should an EEA firm operating in the U.K. fail immediately before Exit Day.

View the draft Regulations.

View the explanatory guidance.

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