On 12 October 2026 the European Banking Authority released the final technical package for phase 1 of EBA reporting framework 4.4, a few weeks after the September 2026 publication it had announced alongside the draft on 24 July. The package fixes the Data Point Model (DPM), the XBRL taxonomies and the validation rules for reporting…
On 1 October 2026 the European Commission adopted COM(2026) 515, a proposal for a Council directive that would let Member States keep using two VAT anti-fraud tools until 30 June 2030: the optional reverse charge mechanism in Article 199a of the VAT Directive and the Quick Reaction Mechanism (QRM) in Article 199b. Under the Directive…
On 7 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) opened its consultation on the draft regulatory technical standards for the central AML/CFT database under Article 11(6) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1620 (AMLAR). The AMLA central database RTS sets out which supervisory information national authorities transmit to AMLA, in how…
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 2 October 2026 the CSSF’s Conseil de protection des déposants et des investisseurs (CPDI), Luxembourg’s designated authority for deposit guarantees, published Circular CSSF-CPDI 26/52. It launches the quarterly survey of covered deposits held on 30 September 2026 and gives every member of the Fonds de garantie des dépôts Luxembourg (FGDL) until 16 November 2026…
On 1 October 2026 the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) started publishing a tabular overview of which guidelines issued by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and by the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) it has adopted into its administrative practice, and which it has not. In the…
AMLA home-host supervisory cooperation moved from consultation to final draft on 1 October 2026, when the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism published its final report on the regulatory technical standards (RTS) mandated by Article 46(4) of Directive (EU) 2024/1640 (AMLD). The draft delegated regulation fixes what the AML/CFT supervisor of…
On 2 October 2026 the CSSF published version 1 of its FAQ on tokenisation, a nine-page document with six questions about Luxembourg investment funds that issue units or shares on a distributed ledger and about the control agents created by Blockchain Law IV. The CSSF tokenisation FAQ splits its answers evenly: three for fund managers…
On 1 October 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) published version 1.0.15 of its AnaCredit technical specifications together with a new SDMX schema package, and its reporting instructions page states that the AnaCredit v1.0.15 schemas are mandatory from reference date January 2027 (included) onwards. Credit institutions and foreign branches resident in Luxembourg therefore send…
Modelo 196 reporting in Spain has run monthly since the January 2026 reference month. Orden HAC/747/2025 of 27 June 2025, issued by the Ministry of Finance and published in the BoletÃn Oficial del Estado (BOE) on 15 July 2025, approved a new Modelo 196, whose title opens with “Declaración informativa mensual de cuentas en toda…