The PRA Branch Return is the half-yearly return through which a UK branch of a non-UK bank tells the Prudential Regulation Authority what it is doing in the United Kingdom. From the 30 June 2026 reference date, in-scope firms complete a revised version of the form (template version 1.2), the product of policy statement PS6/25,…
On 18 September 2026 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) published its stored value facility (SVF) statistics for the second quarter of 2026: 90.38 million SVF accounts in use, around 2.2 billion transactions worth HK$264.7 billion in the quarter, and HK$21.8 billion of user money held as SVF deposit and float at quarter-end. Those figures…
On 16 September 2026 the Financial Conduct Authority published PS26/18, its perimeter guidance for the new UK crypto regime. The authorisation gateway opens on 30 September 2026. The regime itself comes into force on 25 October 2027. The guidance answers the question firms have been asking since the enabling law appeared: which of my activities…
On 16 September 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities, the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA, published joint operational instructions for DORA major incident reporting. Short and technical, the document addresses something narrow and, for reporting teams, immediate: how selected fields of the major-incident template are expected or recommended to be populated, so that the data reaching…
Subject to applicable reporting relief, AnaCredit covers qualifying instruments where a debtor’s aggregate commitment in relation to an observed agent reaches at least EUR 25,000 at a reporting reference date within the relevant reference period. Commitment includes outstanding nominal and off-balance-sheet amounts. From that threshold the loan is reported to the Deutsche Bundesbank on a…
For the 2026 collection cycle, the Single Resolution Board is retiring the resolution templates that banks have filed for the best part of a decade. From this cycle, the SRB’s annual resolution-planning collection uses two reporting modules, RESOL 1 and RESOL 2, built on the revised Implementing Technical Standards in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2303….
The European Central Bank has been the sole gatekeeper for banking licences across the euro area since 4 November 2014, and in September 2026 it rewrote the manual for getting one. The revised Guide to licence applications, which replaces the 2019 edition, sets out how ECB banking authorisation works: who has to apply, how a…
On 18 September 2026 the CSSF told the Luxembourg investment fund industry that, as from 21 September 2026, the activation and deactivation of a suspension of redemptions only must be notified through the eDesk “LMT activation” module. The change reaches Luxembourg-domiciled undertakings for collective investment governed by the Law of 17 December 2010, specialised investment…
On 18 September 2026 the European Banking Authority published EBA/GL/2026/09, its final guidelines on the sound management of third-party risk relating to non-ICT services. The EBA third-party risk guidelines widen the governed perimeter beyond outsourcing, which remains a subset, to non-ICT third-party arrangements within the Guidelines’ defined scope, with particular focus on arrangements supporting critical…
On 18 September 2026 the Bank of England and the Financial Conduct Authority published the minutes and supporting slides from the first meetings of their Transaction and Post-trade Reporting Harmonisation Taskforce, held on 3 July 2026. The papers are the clearest public signal yet of where UK transaction reporting harmonisation is heading across UK MiFIR,…