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 13 July 2026 the Bank of England, the Prudential Regulation Authority and the Financial Conduct Authority begin overseeing the first firms brought inside the UK Critical Third Parties regime. HM Treasury announced the designations three days earlier, on 10 July 2026, but the designations themselves take legal effect only from 13 July 2026, the…
On 9 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board put bank, financial-market-infrastructure and insurance resolution experts in the same room and told them to stop planning in parallel. The occasion was the FSB’s ReSolve event for its Cross-Border Crisis Management working groups, and the framing came from FSB Secretary General John Schindler: the financial system is…
On 8 July 2026 the European Securities and Markets Authority published its final report on the technical standards that flesh out how EU central counterparties must build their CCP admission criteria (ESMA91-1505572268-4692). The standards sit under Article 37(7) of EMIR, the participation-requirements article that Regulation (EU) 2024/2987, better known as EMIR 3, rewrote when it…
On 7 July 2026, the Chair of the ECB Supervisory Board, Claudia Buch, wrote to the CEO of every significant institution under a letter numbered SSM-2026-0301 and titled “Addressing AI-enabled cybersecurity threats”. The ECB AI cybersecurity letter does one operationally concrete thing behind its strategic language: it gives each directly supervised bank until 31 October…
On 1 July 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities each opened a consultation on rewriting the Key Performance Indicators that firms disclose under Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. ESMA published a Consultation Paper, the European Banking Authority a Discussion Paper, and EIOPA a consultation on the insurance side. All three close on 12…
On 3 July 2026 the European Commission adopted two delegated acts that rewrite how the European Sustainability Reporting Standards work: a revised set of ESRS and a new voluntary standard for smaller companies. The revised ESRS cut the number of mandatory datapoints by more than 60% and the total number of datapoints by more than…
The Bank of England published Statistical Notice 2026/06 on 30 June 2026, setting out updated definitions for Form PL, its Profit and Loss statistical return. The changes apply from the first-quarter 2027 reporting period, first submitted in May 2027, which gives UK statistical reporters a fixed window to remap their definitions before that return falls…
A group headquartered in New York, Tokyo or Sao Paulo with no EU listing and no intention of ever seeking one can still be pulled into European sustainability reporting. CSRD third-country reporting reaches groups through the size of their European activity, not through a securities admission. If a non-EU group sells enough into the Union…
If your treasury team is preparing a European Green Bond, the EU Green Bond external reviewers register is now a pre-pricing control. From 22 June 2026, a reviewer must have a valid ESMA-recognised status under the EuGB framework before it can provide external review services: Article 23 registration for EU-established reviewers, Article 39 third-country registration…
Sign a service agreement to run portfolio management technology for an external manager, switch it on, and assume the corporate object in your statutes already covers it. That is the sequence the CSSF IFM ancillary services notification is built to interrupt. On 19 June 2026 the CSSF told the Luxembourg fund industry that an investment…