On 24 September 2026 the ECB announced that its Governing Council had approved a feasibility assessment for TIPS Pix interlinking: a possible connection between the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and Pix, the fast payment system owned and operated by the Central Bank of Brazil. The two central banks will work through technical,…
On 18 September 2026 the Federal Council amended the Ordinance of 16 March 2022 on Measures against Belarus (SR 946.231.116.9), and the changes took effect in Switzerland on 19 September. FINMA flagged the change in a notice on 25 September. The FINMA Belarus sanctions notice points to a financial package modelled on the Russia regime:…
RTRS reporting is the duty, set by MSRB Rule G-14, for every broker, dealer and municipal securities dealer to report each purchase and sale of a municipal security to the Municipal Securities Rulemaking Board’s Real-Time Transaction Reporting System (RTRS). From 1 July 2026 the Rule G-14 RTRS Procedures require a trade executed during the RTRS…
BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank presented the results of the LSI stress test 2026 on 24 September 2026, and the sentence with the longest reach sits in the last paragraph of the press release. Going forward, a less significant institution (LSI) receives Pillar 2 guidance (P2G, in German the Eigenmittelempfehlung) only if its capital ratios…
SOLV reporting is the CSSF’s own funds return for Luxembourg banks. The CSSF handbook “Reporting requirements for credit institutions” (version 8.3 of 17 November 2025) splits it into two domains: SSOLV, own funds requirements (solvency ratio) on an individual basis, and CSOLV, the same information on a consolidated basis. Both rest on Article 430(1)(a) of…
On 25 September 2026 the European Banking Authority opened consultation EBA/CP/2026/19 on draft implementing technical standards that would repeal and replace Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 710/2014. That 2014 regulation sets the procedure, timetable and templates supervisors use to reach joint decisions under Article 113 of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) for cross-border banking groups….
On 24 September 2026 the European Banking Authority published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the MiCA review, an exercise feeding into the review framework under Article 140 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. The EBA asks the Commission to prioritise five things: a dedicated regime for third-country multi-issuer stablecoin schemes, a fresh look…
The Luxembourg sanctions risk assessment that the CSSF drew to supervised firms’ attention in a communiqué of 24 September 2026 is the country’s first vertical risk assessment (VRA) of targeted financial sanctions (TFS) linked to terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF). The Ministry of Finance led the exercise and released the report, titled “PF…
Circular CSSF 26/908 of 25 March 2026 changed how Luxembourg lenders file ESPREP-RES reporting, the semi-annual residential real estate lending indicators, and deleted the file-naming block behind this report’s internal code, ESPREP-ENNNN-YYYY-MM-RES. The underlying return under Circular CSSF 18/703 remains in force. The amended transmission section provides a dedicated eDesk approach and a JSON-based API…
Directive 2024/825 applies in Luxembourg from Sunday 27 September 2026. On 23 September the CSSF published a two-paragraph communication reminding market participants that Directive (EU) 2024/825, known as the ECGT Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition, has been transposed by the Law of 9 June 2026 amending the Consumer Code. The CSSF expects…