On 11 September 2026, the Commission de Surveillance du Secteur Financier (CSSF) reissued its statement on the EuReCA joint controllership arrangement, and the edit is narrow on the page but material underneath it: every reference to the European Banking Authority (EBA) is now a reference to the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing…
On 11 September 2026 the European Payments Council opened a public consultation on version 0.1 of the proposed FRIDA scheme rulebook. The consultation period runs from 11 September to 10 December 2026. FRIDA, the FRaud Information Distribution Arrangement, is the EPC’s proposed scheme for exchanging fraud data between payment service providers on account-to-account transactions across…
On 11 September 2026 EFRAG opened a survey asking large non-EU companies to put a number on the cost of a reporting obligation many of them have not yet started to build for. The obligation sits in Articles 40a to 40d of the EU Accounting Directive: from financial year 2028, the EU subsidiary or branch…
Swedish credit institutions, investment firms and the branches and groups within section 1 of FFFS 2014:14 are subject to the Standardrapport (STND) in applicable parts, unless Finansinspektionen grants an exemption under section 4; from the reference date 31 March 2026 the filing uses the amended form. Finansinspektionen’s regulation FFFS 2014:14, on the reporting of quarterly…
CESOP reporting in Luxembourg is triggered when, in a calendar quarter, a PSP provides payment services corresponding to more than 25 cross-border payments to the same payee. The count is calculated separately for payment services provided per Member State and per Article 243c(2) payee identifier; where the PSP knows that several identifiers belong to the…
From 1 April 2027, a Luxembourg payment institution or electronic money institution still using the current Excel-based reporting process, or a crypto-asset service provider authorised under Article 63 of MiCAR, must submit the reports covered by the new CSSF prudential reporting framework through eDesk; the previous reporting process for those reports will be discontinued. On…
On 9 September 2026 the Bundeszentralamt fuer Steuern (BZSt) issued CRS Newsletter 04/2026, and it carries four items relevant to BZSt CRS reporting. The Federal Ministry of Finance has published an English translation of the BMF-Schreiben that fixes the officially prescribed dataset and interface; the BMF-Schreiben dated 14 January 2026 requires version 2.0 for transmissions…
On 9 September 2026 the European Payments Council (EPC) removed the fixed end date it had set for unstructured customer addresses in SEPA payments. Its Payment Scheme Management Board (PSMB) decided to delay the 15 November 2026 sunset of the unstructured address format across all five EPC payment scheme rulebooks, and support for unstructured addresses…
On 9 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published Risks of Gaming and Gambling, a Methods and Trends report drawn from contributions by more than 80 jurisdictions, industry associations and researchers, and it arrived with a set of new red-flag indicators written for compliance teams. For anyone running anti-money laundering controls inside a casino,…
ESMA published a full package of prospectus materials on 9 September 2026, and only one part of it is still open for comment. The European Securities and Markets Authority put out a Consultation Paper on updated Guidelines on disclosure requirements under the Prospectus Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2017/1129), revised its Q&As, finalised Guidelines on supplements that…