On 9 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Risks of Gaming and Gambling, a Methods and Trends report drawn from contributions by more than 80 jurisdictions, industry associations and researchers, and it arrived with a set of new red-flag indicators written for compliance teams. For anyone running anti-money laundering controls inside a casino,…
ESMA published a full package of prospectus materials on 9 September 2026, and only one part of it is still open for comment. The European Securities and Markets Authority put out a Consultation Paper on updated Guidelines on disclosure requirements under the Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129), revised its Q&As, finalised Guidelines on supplements that…
On 9 September 2026 the European Banking Authority confirmed that the European Commission had declined to endorse its draft technical standards to shorten the prior permission window for reducing own funds and eligible liabilities instruments. For capital and resolution teams, that confirmation carries one practical instruction: keep timing calls, redemptions and buybacks around the existing…
Speaking at the Small Bank Symposium in Bern on 7 September 2026, FINMA’s chief executive set out to answer a complaint the supervisor keeps hearing: that Switzerland’s small institutions are watched too closely while the large banks are left alone. His defence rested on the FINMA small banks regime, the voluntary framework that has run…
The European Union adopted the VAT in the Digital Age package, known as ViDA, on 11 March 2025. It arrives as three connected legal acts: Council Directive (EU) 2025/516, Council Regulation (EU) 2025/517 and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/518. Together they rewrite how VAT is invoiced and reported across the single market. From 1 July…
On 8 September 2026, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published the CPMI-IOSCO cyber resilience toolkit for public comment. It sets out four voluntary tools and asks central counterparties, central securities depositories, securities settlement systems, payment systems and trade repositories to look hard at how…
On 20 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Working Paper No 47, a 35-page literature review titled “Literature review on non-maturity deposit stability: established factors and recent developments”. Non-maturity deposit stability is the question of how reliably sight deposits, current accounts and savings balances stay put when a bank comes under stress,…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority opened a public consultation on the Phase 2B prototype of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance on 7 September 2026, and the window closes on 7 October 2026. Interested parties may submit comments by 7 October 2026. Firms that use the Taxonomy for products or classifications may therefore wish…
On 26 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published, in draft form, a single website that gathers its guidelines and sound practices in one place. The BCBS consolidated guidelines pull material that used to sit across dozens of separate PDF documents into a modular structure, and the Committee says the exercise cut the…
On 3 September 2026 the European Commission put a number on five years of the EU e-commerce VAT reforms: more than 125 billion euro in VAT collected through the One Stop Shop and the Import One Stop Shop since the rules took effect on 1 July 2021. In 2025 alone the schemes brought in more…