On 6 October 2026 EIOPA published its Supervisory Statement on the authorisation and ongoing supervision of (re)insurance undertakings related to private equity, reference EIOPA-BoS-26/388, adopted by its Board of Supervisors on 29 September 2026. The EIOPA private equity insurers statement is addressed to national competent authorities and sets one EU-wide approach to two stages: the…
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 1 September 2026, EIOPA submitted its technical advice to the European Commission on minimum common standards for insurance guarantee schemes (IGS) across the EU. The advice answers a Commission Call for Advice tied to Article 98 of the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD), and it sketches where national IGS should converge and where…
On 3 August 2026 the European Banking Authority, the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority and the European Securities and Markets Authority, acting together as the ESAs, sent the European Commission a final report and a set of draft regulatory technical standards that rewrite one paragraph of the EMIR bilateral margin requirements. The paragraph is…
On 7 July 2026 the European Systemic Risk Board published a formal warning that frontier artificial intelligence models are now a source of systemic cyber risk with direct implications for DORA cyber risk reporting across the EU financial system, and the three European Supervisory Authorities backed it the same day. On the same date, ECB…
On 1 July 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities each opened a consultation on rewriting the Key Performance Indicators that firms disclose under Article 8 of the EU Taxonomy Regulation. ESMA published a Consultation Paper, the European Banking Authority a Discussion Paper, and EIOPA a consultation on the insurance side. All three close on 12…
If your firm filed a major incident under DORA in 2025, that report has now been counted. On 3 June 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities published their first annual report on major ICT-related incidents, putting a hard number on what used to be guesswork: how many major incidents the EU financial sector reports, where…