On 2 September 2026, ECB Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch used a Bruegel Annual Meetings panel in Brussels to put numbers on the supervisory reform that has been building through the year. For teams inside ECB-supervised banks, three of those numbers land directly on the reporting function: the ECB has agreed to cut the supervisory…
On 3 September 2026, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) imposed licence conditions on ING Bank Australia Limited (ING Australia), raised the bank’s minimum liquidity requirement and applied a $50 million operational risk capital add-on. The trigger was a multi-year overstatement of the bank’s Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR). ING Australia had been reporting an LCR…
On 1 September 2026 Norges Bank published Circular 3/2026, and from 1 October 2026 it sets the reserve quotas that decide how much of each counterparty bank’s overnight deposit at the central bank earns the key policy rate. Deposits up to a bank’s quota are remunerated at the policy rate. Anything above the quota earns…
The label “MAS-regulated stablecoin” is about to become a statutory gate. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on legislative amendments to the Payment Services Act 2019 that would give the MAS stablecoin framework legal effect. The consultation invites feedback by 16 October 2026; responding is not a mandatory…
On 1 September 2026, EIOPA submitted its technical advice to the European Commission on minimum common standards for insurance guarantee schemes (IGS) across the EU. The advice answers a Commission Call for Advice tied to Article 98 of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD), and it sketches where national IGS should converge and where…
Bank Indonesia and the Monetary Authority of Singapore switched on the Indonesian rupiah-Singapore dollar Local Currency Transaction framework on 31 August 2026. From that date, twelve appointed banks can facilitate eligible current-account transactions, direct investment and cross-border payments in rupiah and Singapore dollars, with direct IDR-SGD quotation promoted under the framework. The announcement is short,…
On 28 August 2026 the EFRAG Secretariat published the 2026 Draft List of ESRS datapoints together with an Explanatory Note. EFRAG also said that a draft XBRL taxonomy had been prepared in parallel and would be published separately for public consultation. The list rebuilds the full inventory of sustainability datapoints against the revised European Sustainability…
On 28 August 2026, Finansinspektionen (FI) published the Swedish bank capital requirements it discloses each quarter, this time as of the end of the second quarter of 2026 (FI Ref. 26-1525). The memorandum covers Sweden’s three major banks, Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank, plus seven other institutions in supervisory categories 1 and 2. Most quarters this…
On 27 May 2026 the Bank for International Settlements and the Institute of International Finance published the findings report for Project Agora, and the headline was concrete. A prototype had settled wholesale cross-border payments across several currencies using tokenised central bank reserves and tokenised commercial bank deposits, and the project’s legal analysis found that settlement…
On 6 May 2026 the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) opened a consultation that would rewrite parts of two documents every central counterparty already works to: the 2017 CCP resilience guidance and the 2015 public quantitative disclosure standards. The CPMI-IOSCO initial margin package folds six…