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…
The ESAs Autumn 2026 risk update, published on 23 September 2026 by the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA through their Joint Committee (reference JC 2026 29), puts a number on bank exposure to private credit and then qualifies it in a footnote. EU/EEA banks’ exposures to private credit funds and related asset managers reached nearly EUR…
The European Central Bank has been the sole gatekeeper for banking licences across the euro area since 4 November 2014, and in September 2026 it rewrote the manual for getting one. The revised Guide to licence applications, which replaces the 2019 edition, sets out how ECB banking authorisation works: who has to apply, how a…
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 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 9 September 2026 the European Banking Authority confirmed that the European Commission had declined to endorse its draft technical standards to shorten the prior permission window for reducing own funds and eligible liabilities instruments. For capital and resolution teams, that confirmation carries one practical instruction: keep timing calls, redemptions and buybacks around the existing…
On 20 February 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published Working Paper No 47, a 35-page literature review titled “Literature review on non-maturity deposit stability: established factors and recent developments”. Non-maturity deposit stability is the question of how reliably sight deposits, current accounts and savings balances stay put when a bank comes under stress,…
On 28 August 2026, Finansinspektionen (FI) published the Swedish bank capital requirements it discloses each quarter, this time as of the end of the second quarter of 2026 (FI Ref. 26-1525). The memorandum covers Sweden’s three major banks, Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank, plus seven other institutions in supervisory categories 1 and 2. Most quarters this…
On 26 August 2026 the European Banking Authority opened a four-month consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards that will spell out, article by article, the operational risk management framework every institution subject to the Capital Requirements Regulation has to run. The mandate sits in Article 323(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (the CRR), as amended…
On 3 August 2026 the European Banking Authority published an EBA FRTB no-action letter (EBA/Op/2026/08) on the boundary between the trading book and the banking book, alongside a set of technical considerations on how EU banks should apply the market risk framework once the European Commission’s third FRTB Delegated Act takes effect. Both documents attach…