COVID-19: Pandemic Planning for Financial Service Providers

Now that COVID-19 has been declared a pandemic, we anticipate that most financial service providers (“Firms”) will have started to implement their pandemic plans.  Over the coming weeks and months these plans will need to be reviewed and adjusted as the pandemic evolves. This briefing outlines some of the key issues to consider from a regulatory perspective during this time as well as recent statements by regulators on COVID-19.