On 1 October 2026 the Riksbank announced that the Eurosystem has approved its onboarding to EUREP, the Eurosystem’s repo facility for central banks outside the euro area. The line lets the Riksbank borrow up to EUR 50 billion by pledging eligible euro-denominated collateral, and the ECB has said that drawings under the enhanced facility are…
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…
On 1 October 2026 the Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) announced that it had finalised three sets of regulatory technical standards for the private sector and submitted them to the European Commission. The AMLA final RTS cover customer due diligence under Article 28(1) of Regulation (EU) 2024/1624 (the AMLR),…
On 29 September 2026 the CSSF’s Resolution Board published Circular CSSF-CODERES 26/22, which launches the Single Resolution Board’s data collection for the 2027 contribution period of the Single Resolution Fund (SRF). The circular requires Luxembourg credit institutions within the Single Resolution Mechanism to send the SRB’s 2027 Data Reporting Form (DRF) to the CSSF in…
On 28 September 2026 the CSSF published press release 26/19 announcing operational guidance for incident handling: nine rulebooks written jointly by cybersecurity experts from the High Commission for National Protection (HCPN, acting as ANSSI and as GOVCERT.LU), CIRCL, the CSSF and the ILR. The practical question for Luxembourg DORA entities is whether the CSSF incident…
On 24 September 2026 the ECB announced that its Governing Council had approved a feasibility assessment for TIPS Pix interlinking: a possible connection between the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and Pix, the fast payment system owned and operated by the Central Bank of Brazil. The two central banks will work through technical,…
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…
On 24 September 2026 the European Banking Authority published its response to the European Commission’s targeted consultation on the MiCA review, an exercise feeding into the review framework under Article 140 of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114. The EBA asks the Commission to prioritise five things: a dedicated regime for third-country multi-issuer stablecoin schemes, a fresh look…
The Luxembourg sanctions risk assessment that the CSSF drew to supervised firms’ attention in a communiqué of 24 September 2026 is the country’s first vertical risk assessment (VRA) of targeted financial sanctions (TFS) linked to terrorist financing (TF) and proliferation financing (PF). The Ministry of Finance led the exercise and released the report, titled “PF…
Circular CSSF 26/908 of 25 March 2026 changed how Luxembourg lenders file ESPREP-RES reporting, the semi-annual residential real estate lending indicators, and deleted the file-naming block behind this report’s internal code, ESPREP-ENNNN-YYYY-MM-RES. The underlying return under Circular CSSF 18/703 remains in force. The amended transmission section provides a dedicated eDesk approach and a JSON-based API…