On 1 September 2026 Norges Bank published Circular 3/2026, and from 1 October 2026 it sets the reserve quotas that decide how much of each counterparty bank’s overnight deposit at the central bank earns the key policy rate. Deposits up to a bank’s quota are remunerated at the policy rate. Anything above the quota earns…
The label “MAS-regulated stablecoin” is about to become a statutory gate. On 1 September 2026 the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) published a consultation on legislative amendments to the Payment Services Act 2019 that would give the MAS stablecoin framework legal effect. The consultation invites feedback by 16 October 2026; responding is not a mandatory…
On 1 September 2026, EIOPA submitted its technical advice to the European Commission on minimum common standards for insurance guarantee schemes (IGS) across the EU. The advice answers a Commission Call for Advice tied to Article 98 of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD), and it sketches where national IGS should converge and where…
Bank Indonesia and the Monetary Authority of Singapore switched on the Indonesian rupiah-Singapore dollar Local Currency Transaction framework on 31 August 2026. From that date, twelve appointed banks can facilitate eligible current-account transactions, direct investment and cross-border payments in rupiah and Singapore dollars, with direct IDR-SGD quotation promoted under the framework. The announcement is short,…
On 28 August 2026 the EFRAG Secretariat published the 2026 Draft List of ESRS datapoints together with an Explanatory Note. EFRAG also said that a draft XBRL taxonomy had been prepared in parallel and would be published separately for public consultation. The list rebuilds the full inventory of sustainability datapoints against the revised European Sustainability…
On 28 August 2026, Finansinspektionen (FI) published the Swedish bank capital requirements it discloses each quarter, this time as of the end of the second quarter of 2026 (FI Ref. 26-1525). The memorandum covers Sweden’s three major banks, Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank, plus seven other institutions in supervisory categories 1 and 2. Most quarters this…
On 27 May 2026 the Bank for International Settlements and the Institute of International Finance published the findings report for Project Agora, and the headline was concrete. A prototype had settled wholesale cross-border payments across several currencies using tokenised central bank reserves and tokenised commercial bank deposits, and the project’s legal analysis found that settlement…
On 6 May 2026 the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) opened a consultation that would rewrite parts of two documents every central counterparty already works to: the 2017 CCP resilience guidance and the 2015 public quantitative disclosure standards. The CPMI-IOSCO initial margin package folds six…
On 26 February 2026 the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) published an updated set of harmonised ISO 20022 data requirements for enhancing cross-border payments, replacing the report it delivered to the G20 in October 2023. The document and technical annex recommend that payment system operators and participants align their ISO 20022 usage guidelines…
On 2 June 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a range-of-practices report on information and communication technology (ICT) risk management. It draws on a survey of 16 jurisdictions and centres on how global and domestic systemically important banks handle the technology failures that take critical services offline. The Basel Committee ICT risk management…