The Saudi Central Bank (SAMA) has introduced the new “Fees Guide for Financial Institutions’ Services”, set to replace the current Banking Tariff.
This initiative reinforces SAMA’s commitment to customer protection, transparency, and financial inclusion. The new Guide aims to ensure fair and reasonable fees, improve disclosure standards, and support digital transformation by
On 9 January 2026, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a report on the completeness and appropriateness of the definitions and provisions on consolidation under Article 18(10) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).
The EBA states that the report is the first comprehensive assessment of the EU regulatory framework on prudential
On 9 January 2026, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a final report containing final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the booking arrangements that third-country branches are to apply for the purposes of Article 48h of the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV), as amended by the Capital
On 9 January 2026, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a final report containing final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on cooperation and colleges of supervisors for third country-branches.
Background
The Capital Requirements Directive VI (CRD VI), which amends the Capital Requirements Directive IV (CRD IV), introduces
On 18 December 2025, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) issued a report on the approach to simplification.
In the report the SRB outlines its ongoing work to simplify banking regulation. It sets out the SRB’s general principles in the ongoing debate on simplification and then outlines the actions that the SRB is considering
On 16 December 2025, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published its Expectations on Valuation Capabilities following a consultation that took place between 2 April to 2 July 2025.
EU banks’ capabilities to produce data for valuations are addressed explicitly by Principle 5.2 of the SRB’s Expectations for Banks, which requires banks to have
On 12 December 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that it will be assessing 110 directly supervised banks on the management of geopolitical risk.
As a key driver of macroeconomic uncertainty, geopolitical risk remains at the centre of the ECB’s supervisory priorities for 2026-28.
Reverse geopolitical risk stress test
As part of
On 10 December 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (Basel Committee) published Principles for the sound management of third-party risk in the banking sector.
By publishing this document, the Basel Committee is promoting a principles-based approach to effective third-party risk management (TPRM) which is intended to complement banks’ operational
On 10 December 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2025/2303 of 14 November 2025 laying down implementing technical standards with regard to procedures, standard forms and templates for the provision of information for the purposes of resolution plans for credit institutions and investment