The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) reported on 5 October 2026 that three quarters of its 27 member jurisdictions have published rules adopting the final Basel III standards, and that almost all of them have publicly announced that banks must apply Basel III by April 2027 or earlier. The figures come from the Committee’s…
On 24 March 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published its Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2025, and the single number a capital planning team should read first is 1.7%. That is how much the fully phased-in final Basel III framework would add to the Tier 1 minimum required capital of…
On 21 August 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg published its Financial Stability Review 2026, the central bank’s annual read on the systemic risks running through the Grand Duchy’s banks, insurers and investment funds. The BCL Financial Stability Review 2026 was closed editorially on 12 June 2026, and the most recent figures in it are…
The rulebook your ICAAP package, your ILAAP submission and your Pillar 2 reconciliation were written against is being repealed. On 26 June 2026 the European Banking Authority published its revised SREP guidelines (EBA/GL/2026/06), and from 1 January 2027 they replace both the existing SREP guidelines (EBA/GL/2022/03) and the standalone guidelines on ICT risk assessment under…
If your trading desk capital plan for 2027 already assumes the full Fundamental Review of the Trading Book bites on 1 January, the European Commission just changed the arithmetic. On 4 June 2026 it adopted a delegated act that keeps the new Basel III market risk rules switching on as planned, but bolts a multiplier…