On 24 September 2026 the ECB announced that its Governing Council had approved a feasibility assessment for TIPS Pix interlinking: a possible connection between the Eurosystem’s TARGET Instant Payment Settlement (TIPS) platform and Pix, the fast payment system owned and operated by the Central Bank of Brazil. The two central banks will work through technical,…
BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank presented the results of the LSI stress test 2026 on 24 September 2026, and the sentence with the longest reach sits in the last paragraph of the press release. Going forward, a less significant institution (LSI) receives Pillar 2 guidance (P2G, in German the Eigenmittelempfehlung) only if its capital ratios…
SOLV reporting is the CSSF’s own funds return for Luxembourg banks. The CSSF handbook “Reporting requirements for credit institutions” (version 8.3 of 17 November 2025) splits it into two domains: SSOLV, own funds requirements (solvency ratio) on an individual basis, and CSOLV, the same information on a consolidated basis. Both rest on Article 430(1)(a) of…
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…
Directive 2024/825 applies in Luxembourg from Sunday 27 September 2026. On 23 September the CSSF published a two-paragraph communication reminding market participants that Directive (EU) 2024/825, known as the ECGT Directive on empowering consumers for the green transition, has been transposed by the Law of 9 June 2026 amending the Consumer Code. The CSSF expects…
On 23 September 2026 the Financial Action Task Force published its mutual evaluation report on Türkiye, based on an on-site visit in November 2025. The FATF Türkiye mutual evaluation rates Recommendation 13, the correspondent banking standard, compliant, and puts 38 of the 40 Recommendations in the compliant or largely compliant bands. It also finds only…
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…
Directive (EU) 2026/470 narrows the EU-level CSRD scope from financial years beginning on or after 1 January 2027, with Member State transposition required by 19 March 2027; Member States may separately exempt certain wave-one undertakings for financial years beginning in 2025 or 2026. Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/1560, adopted on 3 July 2026 and published…
Regulation (EU) 2026/2108 was adopted on 16 September 2026, published in the Official Journal on 19 September 2026, and entered into force the following day. It establishes a new Union Customs Code and a European Union Customs Authority, and it repeals Regulation (EU) No 952/2013, the code adopted in 2013 and generally applicable since 1…