Last updated: April 2026 Miss a COREP remittance by one day and the CSSF will notice. Miss a CRS filing deadline and the ACD will notice even faster. Q2 is the quarter where annual filings, quarterly prudential reports, and ongoing transaction reporting obligations all converge on the same teams, often the same individuals, at the…
Last updated: April 2026 If you operate a digital platform in Luxembourg and have not yet registered with the Administration des Contributions Directes, you are already in breach. The first DAC7 report covered calendar year 2023 and was due on 31 January 2024. The second covered 2024 and was due on 31 January 2025. The…
Last updated: April 2026 Your COREP templates are filed on time. Your LCR and NSFR ratios are above the minimum. Your Pillar 3 disclosures are published. Then the CSSF sends a letter asking for your ICAAP/ILAAP documentation as part of the SREP cycle, and the room goes quiet. Because unlike the quantitative reports, ICAAP and…
Last updated: March 2026 Your treasury team wants to call an AT1 instrument. The economics are clear, the replacement is lined up, and the board has signed off. But you cannot pick up the phone and announce the call tomorrow. You need MREL prior permission first. And if you miss the application deadline or submit…
Last updated: March 2026 A single lapsed LEI can cascade into hundreds of rejected EMIR reports overnight. I have watched a team spend three days reconstructing and resubmitting trades that should have filed cleanly, all because one counterparty’s LEI renewal slipped through the cracks. That is the reality of EMIR reporting: the regulation itself is…
Last updated: March 2026 Introduction MiCAR (Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation) creates the first comprehensive regulatory framework requiring crypto-asset service providers to implement authorization, prudential reporting, transaction monitoring, and incident notification systems. The Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2023/1114) represents the first unified rulebook for crypto-asset activities across the entire European Union. For reporting teams…
Last updated: March 2026 What Is FINREP and Why It Matters FINREP stands for Financial Reporting. It’s the European regulatory framework for collecting standardized financial data from banks and certain investment firms. If you work in prudential reporting at a European bank, FINREP is not optional – it’s a statutory obligation enforced by your national…
Last updated: March 2026 Why COREP Errors Matter COREP submission day is busy, stressful, and error-prone – but overlooking COREP reporting errors carries real consequences that extend far beyond a missed deadline. You’re pulling data from multiple systems, running reconciliations, and pushing templates through validation in the final hours. When errors appear – especially late…
Last updated: March 2026 What Is MiFIR Transaction Reporting and Why It Matters MiFIR transaction reporting is one of the most operationally demanding requirements in European financial regulation. Every day, thousands of investment firms, trading venues, and systematic internalisers in the EU submit transaction data to national competent authorities (NCAs) under MiFIR Article 26. If…
Last updated: March 2026 Introduction PSD2 reporting is not optional – payment institutions face multiple overlapping reporting obligations including statistical, prudential, fraud, incident, and complaint reporting, each with distinct deadlines, data sources, and regulatory recipients. Payment Services Directive 2 (Directive (EU) 2015/2366) fundamentally reshaped how payment institutions, e-money institutions (EMIs), account information service providers (AISPs),…