On 23 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its mutual evaluation report on Türkiye, based on an on-site visit in November 2025. The FATF Türkiye mutual evaluation rates Recommendation 13, the correspondent banking standard, compliant, and puts 38 of the 40 Recommendations in the compliant or largely compliant bands. It also finds only…
The ESAs Autumn 2026 risk update, published on 23 September 2026 by the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA through their Joint Committee (reference JC 2026 29), puts a number on bank exposure to private credit and then qualifies it in a footnote. EU/EEA banks’ exposures to private credit funds and related asset managers reached nearly EUR…
The FCA money mule review published on 23 September 2026, “Money mules: mule activity and cashing out findings”, reports that the 35 retail banks, building societies, challenger banks, payment institutions (PIs) and e-money institutions (EMIs) it surveyed offboarded 238,396 suspected money mules in 2025, up from 184,935 in 2023 and 233,269 in 2024. Its sharper…
Every credit institution in the Luxembourg market files CSSF table B 4.6 at least annually: the table covers 22 specified functions and activities, the annual submission reflects the 31 December position and is due at the CSSF by 20 January of the following year, and changes to persons reported on B 4.6 during the year…
Liquidation proceeds reporting to Skattestyrelsen rests on section 28 a of skatteindberetningsloven, the Danish Tax Reporting Act. Section 28 a entered into force on 1 January 2024; the current liquidation proceeds reporting rules took effect from 1 January 2025 and apply to reporting concerning calendar year 2025 and later. For investment associations and similar entities,…
Directive (EU) 2026/470 narrows the EU-level CSRD scope from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027, with Member State transposition required by 19 March 2027; Member States may separately exempt certain wave-one undertakings for financial years beginning in 2025 or 2026. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560, adopted on 3 July 2026 and published…
CSSF Table B 2.4 reporting changed shape in November 2025. The CSSF reissued the instructions for the table that records a Luxembourg credit institution’s participating interests and subordinated loans line by line, and the reporting workbook now carries columns and portfolio breakdowns that were not in the earlier version. For the 31 December 2025 reference…
On 18 September 2026 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority published its payment card statistics for the second quarter of 2026, and the headline is a large round number: 31.03 million credit cards in circulation by the end of the quarter. The HKMA payment card statistics look like a simple scoreboard, but every line on the…
Regulation (EU) 2026/2108 was adopted on 16 September 2026, published in the Official Journal on 19 September 2026, and entered into force the following day. It establishes a new Union Customs Code and a European Union Customs Authority, and it repeals Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, the code adopted in 2013 and generally applicable since 1…
On 21 September 2026 the Deutsche Bundesbank issued Rundschreiben 57/2026 on the updated 2026 sFEU list. Counterparty sector classification is material to the monthly balance sheet statistics and the compilation of monetary statistics. Minimum-reserve treatment is separate: under Article 5 of Regulation (EU) 2021/378, liabilities to another institution are excluded from the reserve base only…