Firms in scope of Chapter 18 of the PRA Rulebook must submit the Remuneration High Earners Report annually. The report is due to the PRA within four months of the firm’s accounting reference date and, under Rules 18.4 and 18.5, covers high earners who mainly undertook their professional activities within the UK; Rule 18.6 reports…
On 11 September 2026 the European Payments Council (EPC) published a small web tool with an outsized job: the Instant Credit Transfer Scheme Selector. It addresses an operational classification question for instant-payment design: does the use case fall under the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, the One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst)…
On 11 September 2026, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) reissued its statement on the EuReCA joint controllership arrangement, and the edit is narrow on the page but material underneath it: every reference to the European Banking Authority (EBA) is now a reference to the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing…
On 11 September 2026 the European Payments Council opened a public consultation on version 0.1 of the proposed FRIDA scheme rulebook. The consultation period runs from 11 September to 10 December 2026. FRIDA, the FRaud Information Distribution Arrangement, is the EPC’s proposed scheme for exchanging fraud data between payment service providers on account-to-account transactions across…
On 11 September 2026 EFRAG opened a survey asking large non-EU companies to put a number on the cost of a reporting obligation many of them have not yet started to build for. The obligation sits in Articles 40a to 40d of the EU Accounting Directive: from financial year 2028, the EU subsidiary or branch…
Swedish credit institutions, investment firms and the branches and groups within section 1 of FFFS 2014:14 are subject to the Standardrapport (STND) in applicable parts, unless Finansinspektionen grants an exemption under section 4; from the reference date 31 March 2026 the filing uses the amended form. Finansinspektionen’s regulation FFFS 2014:14, on the reporting of quarterly…
CESOP reporting in Luxembourg is triggered when, in a calendar quarter, a PSP provides payment services corresponding to more than 25 cross-border payments to the same payee. The count is calculated separately for payment services provided per Member State and per Article 243c(2) payee identifier; where the PSP knows that several identifiers belong to the…
From 1 April 2027, a Luxembourg payment institution or electronic money institution still using the current Excel-based reporting process, or a crypto-asset service provider authorised under Article 63 of MiCAR, must submit the reports covered by the new CSSF prudential reporting framework through eDesk; the previous reporting process for those reports will be discontinued. On…
On 9 September 2026 the Bundeszentralamt fuer Steuern (BZSt) issued CRS Newsletter 04/2026, and it carries four items relevant to BZSt CRS reporting. The Federal Ministry of Finance has published an English translation of the BMF-Schreiben that fixes the officially prescribed dataset and interface; the BMF-Schreiben dated 14 January 2026 requires version 2.0 for transmissions…
On 9 September 2026 the European Payments Council (EPC) removed the fixed end date it had set for unstructured customer addresses in SEPA payments. Its Payment Scheme Management Board (PSMB) decided to delay the 15 November 2026 sunset of the unstructured address format across all five EPC payment scheme rulebooks, and support for unstructured addresses…