On 16 October 2026 Norges Bank wrote to banks, financial institutions and banking industry organisations with a proposed NBO operating schedule for the EU move to T+1 securities settlement, with a revised incident management framework. The English consultation page shows publication on 20 October 2026, and Norges Bank expects to publish the final schedule in…
On 20 October 2026 ESMA published its final report ESMA74-1049116226-981, which contains the draft regulatory technical standards that specify when transactions from post-trade risk reduction (PTRR) services qualify for the EMIR PTRR exemption from the clearing obligation under Article 4b of EMIR. The report records that ESMA submitted it to the European Commission on 9…
The Banque centrale du Luxembourg requires every credit institution resident in Luxembourg to file report S 0.1, its “Daily deposit report”, twice a month. The S 0.1 daily deposit report carries a deadline measured in hours: 14:00 on the working day after the reference date, against 10 working days for the BCL’s monthly statistical balance…
On 24 September 2026 the Board of the European Payments Council (EPC) approved the start of development of EPC SCARLET, the Strong Customer Authentication Acceptance Rulebook and Liability Framework for EUDIW Transactions. The EPC announced the decision on 19 October 2026. SCARLET is meant to give the 3,000+ payment service providers (PSPs) and the 27+…
Millionenkredit reporting under section 14 of the German Banking Act (Kreditwesengesetz, KWG) has a fixed end date. Article 36 of the Standortfoerdergesetz (StoFoeG) of 4 February 2026 deletes section 14 KWG with effect from 30 December 2026, and the Deutsche Bundesbank’s notice of 5 October 2026 to the firms in the procedure describes the notification…
On 15 October 2026 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority sent circular B1/15C, “Responsible Adoption of Artificial Intelligence”, to the chief executives of all authorized institutions. Its Annex A is the supervisory core of the HKMA ART Framework: nine principles grouped under Accountability, Resilience and Trust, which supersede the HKMA’s “High-level Principles on Artificial Intelligence” dated…
On 14 October 2026 the Financial Stability Board (FSB) opened consultation on eight FSB modernisation principles, published as the consultation report Regulatory and Supervisory Modernisation Principles and addressed to the financial authorities of its member jurisdictions. Responses are due by Friday 8 January 2027, and the FSB says the final report will follow in the…
Finansinspektionen (FI) decided FFFS 2026:33 on 13 October 2026, amending FFFS 2015:1, its regulations and general guidelines on information about interest on housing credit (bostadskrediter). The FFFS 2015:1 amendment takes effect on 20 November 2026, the day the new Consumer Credit Act (2026:1011) replaces the 2010 Act. It rewrites 1 § and 2 §, the…
Sveriges Riksbank collects money market data from its monetary policy counterparties under section B.3.2.3(c) of the Villkor for RIX och penningpolitiska instrument, the terms every counterparty signs up to. A counterparty that the Riksbank has not selected for daily reporting through its TORA system owes annual money market reporting instead: one Excel workbook summarising the…
On 16 October 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision opened a consultation under its G-SIB methodology review, asking whether to write its 2022 treatment of cross-border exposures inside the European Banking Union (EBU) into chapter SCO40 of the Basel Framework. Comments are due by 14 January 2027. The consultative document runs to ten pages…