EBA

  • CSD Prudential Requirements RTS: Banking CSDs Serving Other CSDs

    On 12 October 2026 the European Banking Authority published final report EBA/RTS/2026/08, dated 9 October 2026, with draft amendments to Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/390, the regulatory technical standards (RTS) that set CSD prudential requirements, covering central securities depositories and designated credit institutions offering banking-type ancillary services. The trigger is CSDR Refit, Regulation (EU) 2023/2845,…

  • FSB Global Stablecoin Note: Tracking Where Tokens and Reserves Sit

    On 12 October 2026 the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published a five-page note to the G20, Global stablecoin arrangements: Cross-border vulnerabilities and financial stability monitoring, together with a letter from its Chair, Andrew Bailey, to G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors ahead of their 15 October meeting. The FSB global stablecoin note sets out…

  • EBA Reporting Framework 4.4 Final Package: The Phase 1 Build List

    On 12 October 2026 the European Banking Authority released the final technical package for phase 1 of EBA reporting framework 4.4, a few weeks after the September 2026 publication it had announced alongside the draft on 24 July. The package fixes the Data Point Model (DPM), the XBRL taxonomies and the validation rules for reporting…

  • BaFin AMLA Guidelines: Overview Table Replaces Adoption Circulars

    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…

  • EBA Joint Decisions ITS: One Risk Report for P2R, P2G and Liquidity

    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….

  • MiCA Review: The EBA’s Priorities for Token Issuers and CASPs

    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…

  • ESAs Autumn 2026 Risk Update: The Reporting Data Behind the Warning

    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…

  • DORA Major Incident Reporting: The ESAs’ Filing Instructions

    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…

  • EBA Third-Party Risk Guidelines: Non-ICT Scope and the Two-Year Clock

    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…

  • EBA Validation Rules: What Changes in the Q3 2026 Update

    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…