On 15 July 2026 the Wolfsberg Group published its Guidance on the Provision of Banking Services to non-bank Payment Service Providers, and it lands on a problem most financial crime teams already know by feel: the bank holds the account, but it is several parties removed from the person actually sending the money. The new…
On 15 July 2026 the SRB Chair told the European Parliament’s ECON Committee that the Single Resolution Board is simplifying resolution planning wherever its mandate allows, and drew a firm line around what simplification will and will not touch. For teams that run SRB resolution planning, the speech matters as a direction of travel: the…
On 14 July 2026 the Financial Conduct Authority opened three linked consultations that together make up its asset management reform package, a set of proposals the regulator estimates would save UK asset managers around £128m a year. The three papers cover fund reporting, the alternative investment fund manager regime, and the remuneration rules that apply…
On 10 July 2026 ESMA announced thirteen Q&A repository items across the EU ESG Ratings Regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and MiFIR secondary markets. All thirteen items carry published answers. The individual records also show that several answers pre-date 10 July 2026. None of the thirteen published answers creates a new reporting template or…
On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published five standardised XLSX notification forms on its Markets in Financial Instruments (MiFID II/MiFIR) page, covering algorithmic trading, direct electronic access, systematic internaliser status, designated publishing entity status and commodity derivatives. For algorithmic-trading and DEA notifications, the workbook replaces the Q&A-table format referenced in the CSSF’s communication of 26…
The CSSF workbook titled Notification of a commodity derivative is a contract-identification form. Its fields cover the submission and admission dates, commodity classification, contract name, unit and lot conversion, trading-venue identifiers, product code, ISIN, whether economically equivalent OTC contracts exist and the total number of securities issued. It does not collect position-holder or open-interest data…
On 13 July 2026 the Council of the European Union added new names to two of its Russia restrictive-measures regimes. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1708 amended the human-rights measures set out in Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1710 amended the destabilising-activities measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/2642. Both were published in the Official…
On 7 July 2026 the European Systemic Risk Board published a formal warning that frontier artificial intelligence models are now a source of systemic cyber risk with direct implications for DORA cyber risk reporting across the EU financial system, and the three European Supervisory Authorities backed it the same day. On the same date, ECB…
On 10 July 2026, ESMA started pulling regulated disclosures into the European Single Access Point (ESAP). The public ESAP portal is not yet accessible; Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 requires ESMA to establish and operate it by 10 July 2027. What went live on 10 July was the plumbing underneath it: from that date, Officially Appointed Mechanisms…
For annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027, IFRS reporters must apply IFRS 18 unless they adopt it earlier. On the supervisory-reporting side, the affected population is the institutions inside FINREP’s IFRS scope under Article 430(3) or (4) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), not every bank that happens to use IFRS…