On 12 August 2026, the Swiss Federal Council opened a consultation on amendments to the Banking Act and the Liquidity Ordinance that would rewrite how the country supervises, disciplines and, if necessary, resolves its largest banks. The consultation runs until 19 November 2026, and it is the legislative core of the Swiss too-big-to-fail reform that…
On 30 July 2026 the Single Resolution Board published a renewed Operational Guidance on the Business Reorganisation Plan Analysis Report, together with a complementary quantitative template and a feedback statement closing the public consultation that ran from 3 February to 30 March 2026. The SRB is explicit on one point that shapes how reporting and…
On 15 July 2026 the SRB Chair told the European Parliament’s ECON Committee that the Single Resolution Board is simplifying resolution planning wherever its mandate allows, and drew a firm line around what simplification will and will not touch. For teams that run SRB resolution planning, the speech matters as a direction of travel: the…
If your MREL reporting has settled into a routine since the 1 January 2024 binding target deadline, the EBA just gave you a reason to reopen the file. On 24 March 2026, the EBA published its second Impact Assessment Report on the Minimum Requirement for Own Funds and Eligible Liabilities (MREL), mandated under Article 45l(2)…