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 20 July 2026 the Single Resolution Board published its MREL Dashboard for the second half of 2025, and the SRB MREL dashboard reads as continuity. Resolution entities across the Banking Union carried an average final MREL target of 27.8% of their Total Risk Exposure Amount (TREA), including the Combined Buffer Requirement, and the aggregate…
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…
On 9 July 2026, the Financial Stability Board put bank, financial-market-infrastructure and insurance resolution experts in the same room and told them to stop planning in parallel. The occasion was the FSB’s ReSolve event for its Cross-Border Crisis Management working groups, and the framing came from FSB Secretary General John Schindler: the financial system is…
A resolution plan that reads well and a bank that can actually be resolved over a weekend are two different things, and the SRB 2025 Annual Report is built around that gap. Published on 30 June 2026, the report tells resolution and MREL reporting teams that the Single Resolution Board has stopped measuring how far…
If a bank wants to call a senior non-preferred note before its contractual maturity, the treasury desk has the cash ready, the replacement issue priced, and one thing standing in the way: a permission from the Single Resolution Board. Get the timing of that permission wrong and the whole liability-management exercise slips a quarter. That…
A resolution reporting officer opens the new EBA MREL dashboard and reads that other banks carry a binding requirement of 24.6% of risk-weighted assets while G-SIIs sit at 28.9%. The wrong move is to treat those numbers as a target your own institution should hit. They are weighted averages across a balanced sample of banks…