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…
Subject to applicable reporting relief, AnaCredit covers qualifying instruments where a debtor’s aggregate commitment in relation to an observed agent reaches at least EUR 25,000 at a reporting reference date within the relevant reference period. Commitment includes outstanding nominal and off-balance-sheet amounts. From that threshold the loan is reported to the Deutsche Bundesbank on a…
For the 2026 collection cycle, the Single Resolution Board is retiring the resolution templates that banks have filed for the best part of a decade. From this cycle, the SRB’s annual resolution-planning collection uses two reporting modules, RESOL 1 and RESOL 2, built on the revised Implementing Technical Standards in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2303….
The European Central Bank has been the sole gatekeeper for banking licences across the euro area since 4 November 2014, and in September 2026 it rewrote the manual for getting one. The revised Guide to licence applications, which replaces the 2019 edition, sets out how ECB banking authorisation works: who has to apply, how a…
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…
On 17 September 2026 the CSSF published Version 1 of a single application form, an Excel workbook, for a Luxembourg investment fund manager seeking benchmark administrator authorisation or registration under the EU Benchmarks Regulation, Regulation (EU) 2016/1011. The document names the two populations it is written for: alternative investment fund managers and management companies authorised…
On 17 September 2026, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published its Operational Guidance for Banks on Communication in Resolution, together with a Communication Testing Supplement to its resolvability testing guidance. The document turns a single line of the Single Resolution Mechanism Regulation into a build project: under Article 8(9)(n) of Regulation (EU) No 806/2014 (SRMR),…
On 17 September 2026 the Czech Financial Analytical Office (Finanční analytický úřad, or FAÚ) opened a guidance series for the firms it supervises, titled the AML package step by step. Its first instalment is narrow and practical: which legal texts will govern anti-money-laundering and counter-terrorist-financing work from 10 July 2027. That date is the pivot…
On 17 September 2026, EFRAG released the draft ESRS XBRL taxonomy for the revised ESRS and opened a public consultation that runs until 11 November 2026. The taxonomy is the technical structure that will let a sustainability statement prepared under the revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards be produced in a machine-readable form. EFRAG plans to…
The ESPREP-STT reporting template that Luxembourg banks filed for years now sits in the CSSF archive. Circular CSSF 08/338, the instrument behind it, and the ESPREP-STT workbook itself have both been archived since 6 August 2025, and the CSSF catalogue records the circular as repealed. What that return measured, the interest rate risk in the…