On 10 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Principles for the sound management of third-party risk, a 22-page Guidelines publication setting out 12 principles for how banks and their supervisors handle the providers now sitting inside almost every banking process. For the banking sector it supersedes the 2005 Joint Forum paper…
On 12 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published a joint review of how the uncleared margin requirements framework has been implemented, and the headline for reporting and collateral teams is that nothing in the rulebook moves. The review found no material issues with the framework…
On 24 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2025, and the single number a capital planning team should read first is 1.7%. That is how much the fully phased-in final Basel III framework would add to the Tier 1 minimum required capital of…
Hong Kong signed a double taxation agreement with Slovenia on 4 September 2026. The Secretary for Financial Services and the Treasury, Christopher Hui, signed for Hong Kong; Slovenia’s Ambassador to China signed for the other side. The Hong Kong-Slovenia double taxation agreement is the 60th tax treaty in Hong Kong’s network and the fifth the…
On 6 January 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a newsletter on the implementation of the Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting, the 2013 standard known as BCBS 239. For anyone running a BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and risk reporting programme, it sets no new template and no fresh…
On 3 September 2026 the Reserve Bank of Australia addressed two significant questions for payment and digital-asset firms. It published a joint RBA and Treasury paper, Retail Central Bank Digital Currency in the Australian Context: An Update, concluding that there is no clear public interest case for a retail CBDC in Australia. On the same…
On 3 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Investigating Professional Money Laundering, Underground Banking, and the Use of Hawala and Other Similar Service Providers, and one case study, Operation Klaver in the Netherlands, records approximately EUR 500 million in criminal proceeds processed over eight months through a cash-based informal value-transfer system. The report…
From 2 September 2026 the Czech Ministry of Finance and the Financial Administration run a single official website, eet.gov.cz, together with a dedicated helpline on 953 109 109, for a tax obligation Czech businesses last carried before the pandemic: recording in-person sales electronically. The reintroduced system, branded EET 2.0 (elektronicka evidence trzeb, electronic registration of…
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…