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 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…
On 24 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2025, and the single number a capital planning team should read first is 1.7%. That is how much the fully phased-in final Basel III framework would add to the Tier 1 minimum required capital of…
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 25 August 2026 the European Banking Authority opened a three-month consultation on the mechanics of investment firm reclassification into credit institutions. Meeting an Article 8a(1) threshold triggers an application for credit institution authorisation; it does not itself complete the reclassification, and Article 8a(2) CRD permits the undertaking to continue the relevant activities until authorisation…
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…
On 17 July 2026 the European Banking Authority opened a consultation (EBA/CP/2026/11) on draft Implementing Technical Standards that would reshape the 2027 market risk benchmarking exercise, and the change that matters most is one of population. The exercise that has run each year with around 40 institutions is set to capture around 100, because banks…
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…
Every summer a reporting team somewhere builds its data roadmap around the wrong supervisory priorities, then spends the following cycle explaining the gap. The EBA supervisory convergence report is the document that lets you avoid that. Published on 29 June 2026 as EBA/REP/2025/16, the 2025 edition sets out where prudential supervisors across the EU actually…
Open the control-mapping file for a significant institution and you will find dozens of cells pointing at ECB supervisory guidance: a guide behind a data lineage control, a methodology note behind a SREP self-assessment, a letter framing a board reporting line. On 26 June 2026 the ECB labelled around 40 of those publications as discontinued….