BaFin and the Deutsche Bundesbank presented the results of the LSI stress test 2026 on 24 September 2026, and the sentence with the longest reach sits in the last paragraph of the press release. Going forward, a less significant institution (LSI) receives Pillar 2 guidance (P2G, in German the Eigenmittelempfehlung) only if its capital ratios…
On 25 September 2026 the European Banking Authority opened consultation EBA/CP/2026/19 on draft implementing technical standards that would repeal and replace Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) No 710/2014. That 2014 regulation sets the procedure, timetable and templates supervisors use to reach joint decisions under Article 113 of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) for cross-border banking groups….
On 6 January 2026 the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published a newsletter on the implementation of the Principles for effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting, the 2013 standard known as BCBS 239. For anyone running a BCBS 239 risk data aggregation and risk reporting programme, it sets no new template and no fresh…
On 2 September 2026, ECB Supervisory Board Chair Claudia Buch used a Bruegel Annual Meetings panel in Brussels to put numbers on the supervisory reform that has been building through the year. For teams inside ECB-supervised banks, three of those numbers land directly on the reporting function: the ECB has agreed to cut the supervisory…
On 28 August 2026, Finansinspektionen (FI) published the Swedish bank capital requirements it discloses each quarter, this time as of the end of the second quarter of 2026 (FI Ref. 26-1525). The memorandum covers Sweden’s three major banks, Handelsbanken, SEB and Swedbank, plus seven other institutions in supervisory categories 1 and 2. Most quarters this…
The ECB IT Risk Questionnaire (ITRQ) is where a significant institution puts a number on its own ICT risk before its Joint Supervisory Team does. Every bank under direct ECB supervision completes the workbook once a year, scoring its inherent ICT risk and the maturity of the controls that mitigate it. The 2026 questionnaire covers…
On 12 August 2026, ECB Banking Supervision published two linked newsletter articles: one reported shorter and more targeted on-site investigations, while the other reported a reduction in the stock of outstanding supervisory measures across significant institutions. The average on-site investigation, measured from kick-off to issuance of the final report, has already fallen from 33 weeks…
On 28 May 2026 the Prudential Regulation Authority closed the first phase of its PRA Pillar 2A review with policy statement PS15/26. The changes it confirms come into force on Friday 1 January 2027, the same day the PRA switches on the Basel 3.1 standards, and they land in the part of the capital stack…
On 26 June 2026 the ECB announced a review of roughly 130 of its banking supervision publications, and in mid-July it followed through on the part that touches every capital and liquidity team: an updated ECB clarification on ICAAPs and ILAAPs and respective package submissions, alongside an updated version of the ECB Guide to the…
Every spring, a Luxembourg reporting team assembles a document that no COREP or FINREP template captures: the institution’s own account of whether it holds enough capital and enough liquidity to survive the risks it actually runs. That account is the ICAAP and ILAAP file, and in Luxembourg its rules sit in Circular CSSF 07/301. The…