Practical checklists, calendars, and reference guides for financial institutions and regulated firms. This section pulls together the artefacts you actually use day-to-day – quarterly regulator reporting calendars with every filing deadline, the DORA compliance checklist for fund administrators, and the DORA register of information template. Unlike the topic guides elsewhere on the site, these articles are designed for fast reference: what’s due when, what fields go where, what supervisors expect to see. New tools are added as regulators publish them and as reporting cycles change. Bookmark the DORA Register of Information guide for ongoing ICT third-party reporting obligations.
In August 2026 the European Central Bank issued a new edition of Volume III of its Legal Framework for Banking Supervision, the digital compilation that gathers the internal-organisation rules of the Single Supervisory Mechanism. Volume III is the part supervised banks meet when they interact with the ECB itself: it holds the rules of procedure…
On 6 August 2026, the Financial Conduct Authority began serving its Handbook of rules and guidance through a new application programming interface. The FCA Handbook API lets a firm’s own software pull the text of UK conduct rules, technical standards and defined terms directly, instead of reading them off the website or waiting for a…
On 28 July 2026, EFRAG placed the 2026 revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the new voluntary standard inside the ESRS Knowledge Hub as an interactive document set. The revised standards were adopted by the European Commission as delegated acts on 3 July 2026, and the Hub is where preparers can now read the final…
On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published its MiFIR DPE notification template, a short XLSX form that Luxembourg credit institutions and investment firms use to apply for designated publishing entity (DPE) status under Article 21a of MiFIR. The form is the point at which a firm formally tells its national regulator that it is willing…
On 13 July 2026 the CSSF published a new version of its CSSF MiFID II/MiFIR FAQ, the question-and-answer document that sets out how the regulator expects Luxembourg investment firms and credit institutions to run transaction reporting, transparency and commodity-derivative obligations in practice. Several answers carry a fresh 13 July 2026 stamp, and four are new…
On 15 July 2026 the CSSF published its AIFM Reporting Dashboard covering the position as at 31 December 2025. The document aggregates the Annex IV returns that authorised and registered AIFMs file, and it is the closest thing the Luxembourg alternative fund sector has to a public benchmark. The CSSF AIFM reporting dashboard adds no…
On 15 July 2026 the CSSF updated the two forms a Luxembourg fund manager reaches for when it closes a branch it had opened in another Member State: the CSSF branch termination annex under Article 33 of Directive 2011/61/EU (AIFMD), and its counterpart under Article 17 of Directive 2009/65/EC (the UCITS Directive). Both moved to…
On 10 July 2026 ESMA announced thirteen Q&A repository items across the EU ESG Ratings Regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and MiFIR secondary markets. All thirteen items carry published answers. The individual records also show that several answers pre-date 10 July 2026. None of the thirteen published answers creates a new reporting template or…
On 10 July 2026, ESMA started pulling regulated disclosures into the European Single Access Point (ESAP). The public ESAP portal is not yet accessible; Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 requires ESMA to establish and operate it by 10 July 2027. What went live on 10 July was the plumbing underneath it: from that date, Officially Appointed Mechanisms…
SS2/21 is the PRA’s supervisory statement on outsourcing and third-party risk management. Its main scope covers UK banks, building societies and PRA-designated investment firms; insurance and reinsurance firms and groups in scope of Solvency II, including Lloyd’s and managing agents; and UK branches of overseas banks and insurers. It has been the working reference for…