The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) reported on 5 October 2026 that three quarters of its 27 member jurisdictions have published rules adopting the final Basel III standards, and that almost all of them have publicly announced that banks must apply Basel III by April 2027 or earlier. The figures come from the Committee’s…
On 1 October 2026 the CSSF published Regulation No 26-03, which keeps the Luxembourg countercyclical capital buffer at 0.50% for the fourth quarter of 2026. Dated 30 September and printed in Memorial A No 482, the regulation entered into force on its publication day, so the rate for relevant credit exposures located in Luxembourg through…
BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank presented the results of the LSI stress test 2026 on 24 September 2026, and the sentence with the longest reach sits in the last paragraph of the press release. Going forward, a less significant institution (LSI) receives Pillar 2 guidance (P2G, in German the Eigenmittelempfehlung) only if its capital ratios…
SOLV reporting is the CSSF’s own funds return for Luxembourg banks. The CSSF handbook “Reporting requirements for credit institutions” (version 8.3 of 17 November 2025) splits it into two domains: SSOLV, own funds requirements (solvency ratio) on an individual basis, and CSOLV, the same information on a consolidated basis. Both rest on Article 430(1)(a) of…
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…
The ESPREP-STT reporting template that Luxembourg banks filed for years now sits in the CSSF archive. Circular CSSF 08/338, the instrument behind it, and the ESPREP-STT workbook itself have both been archived since 6 August 2025, and the CSSF catalogue records the circular as repealed. What that return measured, the interest rate risk in the…
KOFS and KOFC were Finanstilsynet’s FIONA compilation names for individual and consolidated COREP own-funds reporting. The last reference period for those FIONA compilations was 31 December 2025; from the 31 March 2026 reference period, the e-Reg reporting module is COREPOF, with reporting level IND for individual reporting and CON for consolidated reporting. COREP is the…
On 14 September 2026, the European Banking Authority updated its validation-rule files and published a small validation package for its reporting frameworks. The EBA taxonomy is primarily intended for data transmission between competent authorities and the EBA; institutions submit supervisory information to their competent authorities, which determine the technical collection arrangements they apply. The EBA’s…
On 10 September 2026 the Riksbank decided to leave the Swedish countercyclical capital buffer at 2 per cent, the level it treats as neutral; the decision was published on 11 September. For a reporting team the headline is that the Swedish rate is unchanged at 2 per cent, so this decision itself does not introduce…
On 23 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision finalised a technical amendment to the standardised approach to operational risk, and paired it with a new answer to a market risk frequently asked question. Both changes work at the definitional level, touching the plumbing beneath the numbers: how a single accounting line maps into…