On 7 October 2024 the reimbursement requirement in PSR Specific Direction 20 became live, and every payment service provider that sends a Faster Payments transaction from a relevant UK account acquired two obligations at once. The first is reimbursement: where an FPS APP scam claim is reimbursable, the sending PSP must reimburse the consumer subject…
On 28 May 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority closed the first phase of its PRA Pillar 2A review with policy statement PS15/26. The changes it confirms come into force on Friday 1 January 2027, the same day the PRA switches on the Basel 3.1 standards, and they land in the part of the capital stack…
On 18 May 2026, the Prudential Regulation Authority published a Dear CEO letter addressed to the chief executives of all banks and designated investment firms, signed by David Bailey, Charlotte Gerken and Rebecca Jackson. The PRA continues to expect a 100 per cent own-funds requirement under the market-risk framework for unbacked cryptoassets. Separately, where a…
On 26 June 2026 the ECB announced a review of roughly 130 of its banking supervision publications, and in mid-July it followed through on the part that touches every capital and liquidity team: an updated ECB clarification on ICAAPs and ILAAPs and respective package submissions, alongside an updated version of the ECB Guide to the…
On 21 July 2026, the CSSF updated its COFREP guidance workbook to add the EBA small validation rules package dated 10 June 2026. The workbook states that this package applies to credit institution reports submitted to the CSSF from 15 July 2026. It identifies the applicable EBA package and links to the EBA source material;…
On 21 July 2026 the CSSF published Version 5 of its FAQ on the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation, and the whole revision sits in one question. Section II, Question 1 now sets out how a Luxembourg fund manager must handle changes to the Article 8 and 9 SFDR RTS precontractual templates that live inside a…
A UK banking group with an EU financial entity identified by its competent authority for DORA threat-led penetration testing may be subject to STAR-FS in the UK and DORA TLPT in the EU at the same time. The Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority maintain STAR-FS, the Simulated Targeted…
The European Union will move to a T+1 securities settlement cycle on 11 October 2027. ESMA identifies 7 December 2026 as the first regulatory deadline for allocations and confirmations. The European Commission adopted the amending Delegated Regulation on 6 July 2026 as C(2026) 4640 final; it is currently under scrutiny by the European Parliament and…
On 20 July 2026 the Single Resolution Board published its MREL Dashboard for the second half of 2025, and the SRB MREL dashboard reads as continuity. Resolution entities across the Banking Union carried an average final MREL target of 27.8% of their Total Risk Exposure Amount (TREA), including the Combined Buffer Requirement, and the aggregate…
On 17 July 2026 the Council of the European Union adopted Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1779, which amends Annex I to Regulation (EU) No 269/2014 and adds six new designations to the EU list of persons and entities subject to an asset freeze over the situation in Ukraine. The measure entered into force on the…