On 10 July 2026 ESMA announced thirteen Q&A repository items across the EU ESG Ratings Regulation, the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation and MiFIR secondary markets. All thirteen items carry published answers. The individual records also show that several answers pre-date 10 July 2026. None of the thirteen published answers creates a new reporting template or…
The CSSF workbook titled Notification of a commodity derivative is a contract-identification form. Its fields cover the submission and admission dates, commodity classification, contract name, unit and lot conversion, trading-venue identifiers, product code, ISIN, whether economically equivalent OTC contracts exist and the total number of securities issued. It does not collect position-holder or open-interest data…
On 13 July 2026 the Council of the European Union added new names to two of its Russia restrictive-measures regimes. Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1708 amended the human-rights measures set out in Regulation (EU) 2024/1485, and Council Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/1710 amended the destabilising-activities measures in Regulation (EU) 2024/2642. Both were published in the Official…
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 10 July 2026, ESMA started pulling regulated disclosures into the European Single Access Point (ESAP). The public ESAP portal is not yet accessible; Regulation (EU) 2023/2859 requires ESMA to establish and operate it by 10 July 2027. What went live on 10 July was the plumbing underneath it: from that date, Officially Appointed Mechanisms…
For annual reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2027, IFRS reporters must apply IFRS 18 unless they adopt it earlier. On the supervisory-reporting side, the affected population is the institutions inside FINREP’s IFRS scope under Article 430(3) or (4) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), not every bank that happens to use IFRS…
On 9 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published the final technical package for version 4.3 of its supervisory reporting framework, and with it two build deadlines that reporting teams can no longer treat as roadmap items. The EBA reporting framework 4.3 package carries the standard specifications for two separate obligations: supervisory reporting by third-country…
On 9 July 2026, CSIRT KNF, the cyber-incident response team inside Poland’s Financial Supervision Authority, refreshed its report on the cyber threats facing the Polish financial sector for 2026. The document reads like a briefing pack rather than a rulebook: the priority attack scenarios, the techniques criminals are stacking into single campaigns, and the risks…
On 9 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board put bank, financial-market-infrastructure and insurance resolution experts in the same room and told them to stop planning in parallel. The occasion was the FSB’s ReSolve event for its Cross-Border Crisis Management working groups, and the framing came from FSB Secretary General John Schindler: the financial system is…
On 8 July 2026 the European Securities and Markets Authority published its final report on the technical standards that flesh out how EU central counterparties must build their CCP admission criteria (ESMA91-1505572268-4692). The standards sit under Article 37(7) of EMIR, the participation-requirements article that Regulation (EU) 2024/2987, better known as EMIR 3, rewrote when it…