Regulatory updates from the EBA, ECB, ESMA, FCA, PRA, and other competent authorities, with practical analysis of what changes for reporting teams. Coverage includes EBA framework releases (4.x DPM packages), CRR3 implementation milestones, MiCAR and AML rule developments, sanctions packages, supervisory reporting simplification proposals, CSRD sustainability reporting, and resolution framework changes (CMDI, MREL, SRB consultations). Each article translates the regulator’s announcement into what your firm needs to map, prepare, or change before the deadline. The focus is on banks, fund administrators, payment institutions, CRA-regulated firms, and supervised investment firms across the EU and UK. Use this section to track upcoming compliance deadlines and consultation responses.
On 17 September 2026, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published its Operational Guidance for Banks on Communication in Resolution, together with a Communication Testing Supplement to its resolvability testing guidance. The document turns a single line of the Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation into a build project: under Article 8(9)(n) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 (SRMR),…
On 17 September 2026, EFRAG released the draft ESRS XBRL taxonomy for the revised ESRS and opened a public consultation that runs until 11 November 2026. The taxonomy is the technical structure that will let a sustainability statement prepared under the revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards be produced in a machine-readable form. EFRAG plans to…
On 8 September 2026 the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures and the International Organization of Securities Commissions published for public comment a discussion paper, “FMIs’ reliance on third-party service providers: challenges and risks,” and set a comment deadline of 1 December 2026. It is the clearest signal yet of where CPMI-IOSCO third-party risk work…
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…
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…
The Hong Kong Monetary Authority opened a public consultation on the Phase 2B prototype of the Hong Kong Taxonomy for Sustainable Finance on 7 September 2026, and the window closes on 7 October 2026. Interested parties may submit comments by 7 October 2026. Firms that use the Taxonomy for products or classifications may therefore wish…
On 10 December 2025 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Principles for the sound management of third-party risk, a 22-page Guidelines publication setting out 12 principles for how banks and their supervisors handle the providers now sitting inside almost every banking process. For the banking sector it supersedes the 2005 Joint Forum paper…
On 2 September 2026, ECB Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch used a Bruegel Annual Meetings panel in Brussels to put numbers on the supervisory reform that has been building through the year. For teams inside ECB-supervised banks, three of those numbers land directly on the reporting function: the ECB has agreed to cut the supervisory…
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…
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…