On 31 December 2025 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority completed its annual assessment and confirmed the list of authorized institutions designated as domestic systemically important banks. The HKMA D-SIB designation for 2026 names the same five institutions as a year earlier, and it leaves their Higher Loss Absorbency (HLA) requirements at the levels each already…
The Prudential Regulation Authority published consultation LIAC02/26 on 29 July 2026, opening two separate workstreams under its low impact amendments process. One removes Lloyd’s syndicates from internal model output (IMO) reporting; the other reworks the liquidity Parts of the PRA Rulebook to fit incoming UK rule changes. Both close for comment on 11 September 2026,…
On 27 July 2026, the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) confirmed that it will remake three of the APRA Level 3 conglomerate standards before they automatically lapse on 1 October 2026. The three instruments are Prudential Standard 3PS 221 Aggregate Risk Exposures, Prudential Standard 3PS 222 Intra-group Transactions and Exposures, and Prudential Standard 3PS 310…
On 21 July 2026, the CSSF updated its COFREP guidance workbook to add the EBA small validation rules package dated 10 June 2026. The workbook states that this package applies to credit institution reports submitted to the CSSF from 15 July 2026. It identifies the applicable EBA package and links to the EBA source material;…
On 20 July 2026 the Single Resolution Board published its MREL Dashboard for the second half of 2025, and the SRB MREL dashboard reads as continuity. Resolution entities across the Banking Union carried an average final MREL target of 27.8% of their Total Risk Exposure Amount (TREA), including the Combined Buffer Requirement, and the aggregate…
On 8 July 2026 the Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) opened a consultation on amendments to its superannuation data collections, with written submissions due by 21 August 2026. The package targets two returns that registrable superannuation entity (RSE) licensees know well: SRS 533.0 Asset Allocation and SRS 610.2 Membership Profile. APRA proposes to amend both…
On 17 July 2026 the European Banking Authority opened a consultation (EBA/CP/2026/11) on draft Implementing Technical Standards that would reshape the 2027 market risk benchmarking exercise, and the change that matters most is one of population. The exercise that has run each year with around 40 institutions is set to capture around 100, because banks…
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…
A non-EU bank that wants to keep taking deposits, lending, or issuing guarantees in an EU Member State through a branch now has a hard date to work toward: 11 January 2027. On 7 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published its final Guidelines on the authorisation of third-country branches (EBA/GL/2026/08), and they settle the…
An ECB-approved internal model is a supervisory decision the bank asked for and agreed to run. Treat it as optional for a few quarters and the capital ratios you report to the ECB stop being true. That is the practical lesson from the ECB internal models sanction announced on 29 June 2026, when the European…