On 17 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Synthetic risk transfers, a 31-page report on a market that has become an important source of capital relief for corporate credit risk. Across Canada, the euro area, the United Kingdom and the United States, the Committee estimates that about EUR 750 billion of assets…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency published its Report on the Monitoring and Analysis of Deposit-Taking Financial Institutions on 31 July 2026. It sets out where the FSA spent its prudential supervision effort across Business Year (BY) 2025, the window from July 2025 to June 2026, and it identifies seven areas covered in the report without ranking…
On 6 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published its 2025 immovable property loss data: the annual dataset of losses and exposures for residential and commercial property across the EU and EEA. For a standardised-approach credit-risk reporting team, that dataset does real work. It is one of the inputs that decides whether the preferential risk…
APRA’s proposed risk-weight changes, released for consultation on 29 June 2026, land in a quiet part of your capital stack, and that is exactly why they are easy to get wrong. A lower risk weight only flows through to your capital ratio if the underlying exposure is mapped into the right bucket on the right…
The EBA IRB benchmarking exercise is a supervisory data collection where your bank’s internal-model outputs are benchmarked against defined portfolios, supervisory clusters and peer submissions from the institutions included in the exercise. If your probability of default sits well below the peer range on a corporate portfolio that everyone else prices higher, that gap does…
Why COREP Errors Matter COREP submission day is busy, stressful, and error-prone – but overlooking COREP reporting errors carries real consequences that extend far beyond a missed deadline. You’re pulling data from multiple systems, running reconciliations, and pushing templates through validation in the final hours. When errors appear – especially late – the pressure intensifies….
What Is COREP and Why It Matters COREP stands for Common Reporting. It’s the standardized format through which EU banks and other regulated entities submit their prudential information, covering capital adequacy, risk exposure, asset quality, and liquidity data, to supervisory authorities. COREP is relevant to prudential reporting, regulatory finance and risk-reporting functions at institutions within…