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.
The SEC’s latest EDGAR Filer Manual update reached the Federal Register on 6 October 2026, three weeks after the system change it describes. In a final rule published at 91 FR 63476 (Release Nos. 33-11438 and 34-106345), the Commission adopted Volume II of the EDGAR Filer Manual, “EDGAR Filing,” Version 78 (September 2026), and amended…
On 11 September 2026 the European Payments Council (EPC) published a small web tool with an outsized job: the Instant Credit Transfer Scheme Selector. It addresses an operational classification question for instant-payment design: does the use case fall under the SEPA Instant Credit Transfer (SCT Inst) scheme, the One-Leg Out Instant Credit Transfer (OCT Inst)…
On 8 September 2026, the Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI) and the International Organization of Securities Commissions (IOSCO) published the CPMI-IOSCO cyber resilience toolkit for public comment. It sets out four voluntary tools and asks central counterparties, central securities depositories, securities settlement systems, payment systems and trade repositories to look hard at how…
On 26 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published, in draft form, a single website that gathers its guidelines and sound practices in one place. The BCBS consolidated guidelines pull material that used to sit across dozens of separate PDF documents into a modular structure, and the Committee says the exercise cut the…
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…