On 1 October 2026 the German Federal Financial Supervisory Authority (BaFin) started publishing a tabular overview of which guidelines issued by the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) and by the EU Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AMLA) it has adopted into its administrative practice, and which it has not. In the…
On 25 September 2026 the European Banking Authority opened consultation EBA/CP/2026/19 on draft implementing technical standards that would repeal and replace Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 710/2014. That 2014 regulation sets the procedure, timetable and templates supervisors use to reach joint decisions under Article 113 of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) for cross-border banking groups….
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 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…
On 16 September 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities, the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA, published joint operational instructions for DORA major incident reporting. Short and technical, the document addresses something narrow and, for reporting teams, immediate: how selected fields of the major-incident template are expected or recommended to be populated, so that the data reaching…
On 18 September 2026 the European Banking Authority published EBA/GL/2026/09, its final guidelines on the sound management of third-party risk relating to non-ICT services. The EBA third-party risk guidelines widen the governed perimeter beyond outsourcing, which remains a subset, to non-ICT third-party arrangements within the Guidelines’ defined scope, with particular focus on arrangements supporting critical…
On 14 September 2026, the European Banking Authority updated its validation-rule files and published a small validation package for its reporting frameworks. The EBA taxonomy is primarily intended for data transmission between competent authorities and the EBA; institutions submit supervisory information to their competent authorities, which determine the technical collection arrangements they apply. The EBA’s…
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 6 January 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a newsletter on the implementation of the Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting, the 2013 standard known as BCBS 239. For anyone running a BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and risk reporting programme, it sets no new template and no fresh…
On 2 September 2026, ECB Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch used a Bruegel Annual Meetings panel in Brussels to put numbers on the supervisory reform that has been building through the year. For teams inside ECB-supervised banks, three of those numbers land directly on the reporting function: the ECB has agreed to cut the supervisory…