The European Commission’s Directorate-General for Taxation and Customs Union (DG TAXUD) has issued a version of its EUR 3 customs duty guidance dated 5 October 2026, and the title now names a second charge: the Union handling fee. Since 1 July 2026, Article 2 of Council Regulation (EU) 2026/382 has imposed a temporary EUR 3…
On 8 October 2026 ESMA published an opinion, reference ESMA75-113276571-1742, telling national competent authorities (NCAs) that crypto-asset service providers (CASPs) should not provide crypto-asset services in relation to non-MiCA-compliant ARTs and EMTs: asset-referenced tokens and e-money tokens for which the conditions of Title III or Title IV of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 (MiCA) are not met….
On 8 October 2026 the CSSF published the form behind a new filing, the CSSF white-label business notification. It applies to a Luxembourg investment fund manager (IFM) that manages, or intends to manage, a fund at the initiative of a third party, and it gives working shape to Article 13(2a) of the Law of 12…
On 7 October 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority published CP13/26, Updating regulatory thresholds: An autopilot approach. It proposes PRA threshold indexation for 128 fixed amounts in the PRA Rulebook and in PRA guidance: each would rise with UK nominal GDP, first on 1 July 2031 and then every five years. Responses to the consultation, and…
On 7 October 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) issued its Guidelines on Artificial Intelligence Risk Management, together with a response to the feedback it received on consultation paper P017-2025 of November 2025. The MAS AI risk management guidelines take effect on 7 October 2027 and reach every financial institution (FI) as defined in…
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the review of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 on markets in crypto-assets (MiCA). The AMLA MiCA review paper is dated 30 September 2026, the day the consultation closed, and reads MiCA…
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) opened its consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards for the central AML/CFT database under Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (AMLAR). The AMLA central database RTS sets out which supervisory information national authorities transmit to AMLA, in how…
Every February, HMRC issues Bank and Building Society Interest (BBSI) notices under Schedule 23 to the Finance Act 2011, and each one requires a BBSI return: the interest a bank or building society paid or credited during the UK tax year to reportable persons with UK addresses. HMRC’s published returns cycle runs the reported year…
On 30 September 2026 FINMA opened a consultation on a partial revision of FINMA Circular 2017/6 “Direct transmission”, the circular that sets out when Swiss supervised institutions may send non-public information straight to a foreign authority without going through FINMA’s administrative assistance. Comments are due by 27 November 2026, and FINMA plans to bring the…
The SEC’s latest EDGAR Filer Manual update reached the Federal Register on 6 October 2026, three weeks after the system change it describes. In a final rule published at 91 FR 63476 (Release Nos. 33-11438 and 34-106345), the Commission adopted Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual, “EDGAR Filing,” Version 78 (September 2026), and amended…