On 30 September 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority published a Dear CFO letter from David Bailey, its Executive Director for Prudential Policy, setting out thematic feedback on IFRS 9 expected credit loss (ECL) accounting. The PRA IFRS 9 ECL letter draws on the written reports that auditors of the major UK-headquartered banks and building societies…
Skattestyrelsen published the Indberetningsvejledning om Indlån 2026 (S nr. 116) on 30 September 2026, the guide that sets out how deposit reporting to Skat works for calendar year 2026. Under section 12 of the Danish Tax Reporting Act (skatteindberetningsloven), banks, lawyers and others within the Act’s territorial scope that receive or intermediate deposits are subject…
Finanstilsynet’s KGFS return, “Boligudlån for kunder med høj gældsfaktor” (home loans to customers with a high debt-to-income factor), requires in-scope Danish banks, branches of foreign banks and mortgage banks to report quarterly new lending secured on owner-occupied homes and holiday homes. The return includes a total new-lending measure and separately identifies specified lending to customers…
Skattestyrelsen published version 1.8 of its EIS reporting guide, the Indberetningsvejledning til etableringskontosystemet, on 28 September 2026, and it applies to every report an account-holding bank in Denmark makes from 1 October 2026, corrections for earlier years included. EIS reporting covers bank reporting of deposits and withdrawals on four tax-favoured account types: the etableringskonto (establishment…
The FCA money mule review published on 23 September 2026, “Money mules: mule activity and cashing out findings”, reports that the 35 retail banks, building societies, challenger banks, payment institutions (PIs) and e-money institutions (EMIs) it surveyed offboarded 238,396 suspected money mules in 2025, up from 184,935 in 2023 and 233,269 in 2024. Its sharper…
UK FINREP is supervisory financial reporting governed by the Reporting (CRR) Part of the PRA Rulebook. That Part applies to CRR firms and CRR consolidation entities; Article 430(3) sets financial-information requirements for firms within that provision, while Chapters 5A-5F set additional requirements for reduced FINREP firms. For FINREP data items required under Article 430(3) together…
Firms in scope of Chapter 18 of the PRA Rulebook must submit the Remuneration High Earners Report annually. The report is due to the PRA within four months of the firm’s accounting reference date and, under Rules 18.4 and 18.5, covers high earners who mainly undertook their professional activities within the UK; Rule 18.6 reports…
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…
Hong Kong Taxonomy Phase 2A, published by the Hong Kong Monetary Authority on 22 January 2026, expanded the HKMA’s voluntary framework for classifying economic activities as green, transition-aligned or adaptation-aligned. The classification that Phase 1 introduced in May 2024 covered 12 economic activities across four sectors and dealt only with climate change mitigation. Phase 2A…
Your COREP templates are filed on time. Your LCR and NSFR ratios are above the minimum. Your Pillar 3 disclosures are published. Then the CSSF sends a letter asking for your ICAAP/ILAAP documentation as part of the SREP cycle, and the room goes quiet. Because unlike the quantitative reports, ICAAP and ILAAP are not templates…