Prudential reporting covers the regulatory submissions banks make to demonstrate capital adequacy, liquidity, and risk management to the EBA, ECB, PRA, and other competent authorities. This section explains the core templates and frameworks – COREP for capital, FINREP for financial reporting, LCR and NSFR for liquidity, large exposures, IRRBB, and Pillar 3 disclosures. You’ll also find practical guides to ICAAP/ILAAP, MREL, the CRR3 changes landing in 2026, and ongoing EBA reporting framework updates (4.x DPM packages). Articles are aimed at reporting teams at banks and credit institutions, with step-by-step explanations of what to file, when, and what supervisors actually look for. Start with the COREP reporting guide or the FINREP guide if you’re new to prudential reporting.
A non-EU bank that wants to keep taking deposits, lending, or issuing guarantees in an EU Member State through a branch now has a hard date to work toward: 11 January 2027. On 7 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published its final Guidelines on the authorisation of third-country branches (EBA/GL/2026/08), and they settle the…
On 6 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published its 2025 immovable property loss data: the annual dataset of losses and exposures for residential and commercial property across the EU and EEA. For a standardised-approach credit-risk reporting team, that dataset does real work. It is one of the inputs that decides whether the preferential risk…
Every spring, a Luxembourg reporting team assembles a document that no COREP or FINREP template captures: the institution’s own account of whether it holds enough capital and enough liquidity to survive the risks it actually runs. That account is the ICAAP and ILAAP file, and in Luxembourg its rules sit in Circular CSSF 07/301. The…
The CSSF SREP 2025 supervisory disclosure, published on 29 June 2026, is a short spreadsheet that describes, in the regulator’s own words, how the CSSF runs the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) for Luxembourg investment firms. It carries no firm names and no individual scores. For a Class 2 investment firm it is still…
On 2 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published the EBA Pillar 3 peer review of how competent authorities supervise Pillar 3 disclosures. Six supervisors were assessed against four benchmarks, and their scores ran the full length of the scale, from fully applied to not applied. For a reporting team the spread is the story:…
Last updated: July 2026 An ECB-approved internal model is a supervisory decision the bank asked for and agreed to run. Treat it as optional for a few quarters and the capital ratios you report to the ECB stop being true. That is the practical lesson from the ECB internal models sanction announced on 29 June…
Last updated: July 2026 Every summer a reporting team somewhere builds its data roadmap around the wrong supervisory priorities, then spends the following cycle explaining the gap. The EBA supervisory convergence report is the document that lets you avoid that. Published on 29 June 2026 as EBA/REP/2025/16, the 2025 edition sets out where prudential supervisors…
Last updated: July 2026 A quarterly buffer decision that holds a rate flat is the one most likely to be filed on autopilot, and that is where reporting errors slip in. On 30 June 2026 the CSSF published Regulation No 26-02, which sets the Luxembourg countercyclical capital buffer at 0.50% for the third quarter of…
Last updated: July 2026 A resolution plan that reads well and a bank that can actually be resolved over a weekend are two different things, and the SRB 2025 Annual Report is built around that gap. Published on 30 June 2026, the report tells resolution and MREL reporting teams that the Single Resolution Board has…
Last updated: June 2026 If a bank wants to call a senior non-preferred note before its contractual maturity, the treasury desk has the cash ready, the replacement issue priced, and one thing standing in the way: a permission from the Single Resolution Board. Get the timing of that permission wrong and the whole liability-management exercise…