banking supervision

  • BCBS Consolidated Guidelines: One Website, 75% Less Guidance

    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…

  • HKMA-MAS Banking Supervision MoU: The Cross-Border Picture

    On 17 September 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority (HKMA) and the Monetary Authority of Singapore (MAS) announced that they had exchanged a Memorandum of Understanding on banking supervisory cooperation. The two authorities describe the HKMA-MAS banking supervision MoU as strengthening supervisory cooperation and facilitating the exchange of information and mutual assistance for supervisory purposes,…

  • ECB Streamlines Its Supervisory Guidance: What the Discontinued Publications Mean for EU Banks’ Reporting and Controls

    Open the control-mapping file for a significant institution and you will find dozens of cells pointing at ECB supervisory guidance: a guide behind a data lineage control, a methodology note behind a SREP self-assessment, a letter framing a board reporting line. On 26 June 2026 the ECB labelled around 40 of those publications as discontinued….