On 18 August 2026 the European Central Bank asked a narrow slice of the technology industry a very specific question: are the secure-hardware standards behind the offline digital euro mature enough, and does the market support them? The call for expression of interest, published through the ECB’s market infrastructure and payments news channel, gives interested…
On 18 August 2026, APRA imposed licence conditions on Bendigo and Adelaide Bank Limited over what it described as longstanding and pervasive weaknesses in the bank’s non-financial risk management framework. The action is worth reading closely by every Australian authorised deposit-taking institution, because APRA reached for a power that sits underneath the banking authority itself…
goAML is Luxembourg’s electronic channel for suspicious-operation reporting and communication with the CRF; for lawyers, the platform integrates the Article 7 Bâtonnier filter before qualifying reports are forwarded to the CRF. In 2024 the CRF received significantly more suspicious reports than the prior year, according to its 2024 annual report. That same report covers the…
On 17 September 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that they had exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding on banking supervisory cooperation. The two authorities describe the HKMA-MAS banking supervision MoU as strengthening supervisory cooperation and facilitating the exchange of information and mutual assistance for supervisory purposes,…
On 28 October 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority published the e-HKD Pilot Programme Phase 2 Report and, with it, drew a line under three years of retail testing. The report sets out the HKMA’s latest policy stance on Hong Kong’s central bank digital currency: the immediate priority for the e-HKD sits in wholesale settlement…
On 8 September 2026, the Canadian Depository for Securities (CDS) begins the first, dry-run stage of the fail fee framework for Government of Canada (GoC) securities. During this stage, CDS calculates indicative 50 basis point fees for chargeable seller-side DvP fails in GoC bills, nominal bonds, real return bonds and strips. CIMPA and CDS, on…
In August 2026 the European Central Bank issued a new edition of Volume III of its Legal Framework for Banking Supervision, the digital compilation that gathers the internal-organisation rules of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Volume III is the part supervised banks meet when they interact with the ECB itself: it holds the rules of procedure…
On 14 August 2026 ESMA confirmed that the reworked weekly commodity derivatives position reporting framework goes live on 3 September 2026. From that date, an investment firm or market operator operating an EU trading venue whose relevant contract is subject to the Article 58 weekly-reporting obligation must submit the weekly report to ESMA using the…
The CBAM definitive period has applied since 1 January 2026. It applies to goods listed in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2023/956 that originate in a third country and are imported into the Union, subject to the Regulation’s scope exclusions and exemptions, including the Article 2a de minimis exemption for the four mass-based sectors. Electricity…
On 12 August 2026, Hong Kong’s Financial Services and the Treasury Bureau (FSTB) answered media enquiries about the preferential tax regime for carried interest and used the reply to draw a boundary. Under the current Schedule 16D, the 0 per cent profits tax concession applies to eligible carried interest received by a qualifying person from…