On 14 July 2026 the Banque centrale du Luxembourg (BCL) confirmed it will take part in the European Central Bank’s digital euro pilot, joining the ECB and 18 other Eurosystem national central banks in a controlled test of a beta version of the digital euro. The same day the ECB named the 36 payment service…
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 8 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board’s Deputy Secretary General, Martin Moloney, told an OMFIF audience that the G20 Roadmap for Enhancing Cross-border Payments is approaching its finish line without having reached its destination. The G20 cross-border payments targets on cost, speed, transparency and access were set in 2021, and most of them fall…
When a supervisor publishes its prioritised risks for the year, it is telling you where its inspectors will look first. The FI 2026 AML priorities are exactly that. Finansinspektionen (FI), the Swedish financial supervisory authority, set them out on 18 June 2026 in its report on prioritised risks related to money laundering, terrorism financing and…
A consumer survey is not a reporting obligation. Treat the two as the same thing and you mis-scope your year, because the Bundesbank payment behaviour study tells you where transaction volumes are moving, while a separate set of European Central Bank rules tells you which of those movements you have to count, code and submit….
If your firm filed a major incident under DORA in 2025, that report has now been counted. On 3 June 2026 the three European Supervisory Authorities published their first annual report on major ICT-related incidents, putting a hard number on what used to be guesswork: how many major incidents the EU financial sector reports, where…
The most expensive scoping mistake a Luxembourg compliance team can make right now is assuming someone else will flag it for AMLA direct supervision. The Authority for Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism picks its first set of directly supervised firms in 2027, and the data that feeds that decision is being collected…
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), and payment initiation service…
Introduction CESOP reporting is a mandatory quarterly obligation for European payment service providers handling cross-border transactions above the 25-payment threshold – missing the deadline or submitting inaccurate data can result in supervisory action and penalties. If you work in payments or compliance at a European financial institution, CESOP likely sits on your regulatory checklist. For…