Speaking at the Small Bank Symposium in Bern on 7 September 2026, FINMA’s chief executive set out to answer a complaint the supervisor keeps hearing: that Switzerland’s small institutions are watched too closely while the large banks are left alone. His defence rested on the FINMA small banks regime, the voluntary framework that has run…
Japan’s Financial Services Agency published its Report on the Monitoring and Analysis of Deposit-Taking Financial Institutions on 31 July 2026. It sets out where the FSA spent its prudential supervision effort across Business Year (BY) 2025, the window from July 2025 to June 2026, and it identifies seven areas covered in the report without ranking…
On 13 February 2026 the Hong Kong Monetary Authority published consultation conclusions on proposed enhancements to the Banking Ordinance (Cap. 155). The policy package has since moved into legislation: the Banking Legislation (Miscellaneous Amendments) Bill 2026 was gazetted on 5 June 2026, received its First Reading on 17 June 2026 and has since been referred…