Finansinspektionen (FI) decided on 13 October 2026 to amend FFFS 2023:12, its regulations on ownership, owner-management and management assessments in certain financial firms. The amending instrument, FFFS 2026:35, enters into force on 20 November 2026. From that date the regulations also cover Swedish firms under FI supervision that grant consumer credit other than housing credit…
On 6 October 2026 EIOPA published its Supervisory Statement on the authorisation and ongoing supervision of (re)insurance undertakings related to private equity, reference EIOPA-BoS-26/388, adopted by its Board of Supervisors on 29 September 2026. The EIOPA private equity insurers statement is addressed to national competent authorities and sets one EU-wide approach to two stages: the…
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…