On 29 September 2026 the Bank of Canada and the Office of the Superintendent of Financial Institutions (OSFI) issued a joint statement on the Bank’s Standing Liquidity Facility (SLF), the facility that gives participants in Lynx, Canada’s high-value payment system, secured liquidity both intraday and overnight. Its operative sentence is short: overnight SLF draws “are…
On 2 June 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a range-of-practices report on information and communication technology (ICT) risk management. It draws on a survey of 16 jurisdictions and centres on how global and domestic systemically important banks handle the technology failures that take critical services offline. The Basel Committee ICT risk management…
On 31 December 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority completed its annual assessment and confirmed the list of authorized institutions designated as domestic systemically important banks. The HKMA D-SIB designation for 2026 names the same five institutions as a year earlier, and it leaves their Higher Loss Absorbency (HLA) requirements at the levels each already…