RTS

  • CRD VI Material Acquisitions: The New EBA Notification Regime

    On 17 July 2026 the European Banking Authority published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (EBA/RTS/2026/06) and Implementing Technical Standards (EBA/ITS/2026/03) covering four operations that CRD VI brought under prudential supervision for the first time: material acquisitions, material transfers of assets or liabilities, mergers and divisions carried out by credit institutions and financial holding companies….

  • EMIR CCP Admission Criteria: The New RTS for Clearing Members

    On 8 July 2026 the European Securities and Markets Authority published its final report on the technical standards that flesh out how EU central counterparties must build their CCP admission criteria (ESMA91-1505572268-4692). The standards sit under Article 37(7) of EMIR, the participation-requirements article that Regulation (EU) 2024/2987, better known as EMIR 3, rewrote when it…