On 3 November 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation paper containing draft guidelines on the authorisation of third country branches in accordance with Article 48c(8) of the Capital Requirements Directive IV (as amended by Directive (EU) 2024/1619).
Scope
The draft guidelines are addressed to Member State competent authorities in charge
On 29 October 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a Final Report on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk of securities financing transactions (SFTs).
Background
The Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) as amended by Regulation 2024/1623 (CRR3) implements in the
On 29 October 2025, the European Commission (Commission) adopted a communication which provides guidance on how banks can benefit from more favourable prudential treatment under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) when investing in equity through legislative programmes – structured public investment schemes established under EU or national law.
Subject to the
On 28 October 2025, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued a technical amendment to the Basel Framework which relates to the circumstance where a bank uses a guarantee or credit derivative to hedge the counterparty credit risk of a derivative exposure subject to the standardised approach to counterparty credit risk or the internal models
On 28 October 2025, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) published Policy Statement 18/25 ‘Retiring the refined methodology to Pillar 2A (near–final)’ (PS18/25).
PS18/25 provides feedback to responses the PRA received to the following chapters of consultation paper (CP) 9/24 – Streamlining the Pillar 2A capital framework and the capital
On 28 October 2025, the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA) issued Policy Statement 20/25 ‘The Strong and Simple Framework: The simplified capital regime for Small Domestic Deposit Takers (SDDTs) (near-final)’ (PS20/25).
Background
On 12 September 2024, the PRA published Consultation Paper CP7/24 ‘The Strong and Simple Framework: The simplified capital regime for
On 24 October 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation paper proposing updates to its guidelines on common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) and supervisory stress testing. The guidelines are addressed to Member State competent authorities.
Background
The first version of the guidelines
On 15 October 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) issued their technical advice in response the European Commission’s (Commission) Call for Advice (CfA) on the Investment Firms Regulation (IFR) and Investment Firms Directive (IFD).
Background
On 15 October 2025, the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA) published Policy Statement 25/14: Definition of capital for FCA investment firms (PS25/14).
Background
On 24 April 2025, the FCA published a consultation paper, CP25/10, on the definition of capital for FCA investment firms.
The FCA proposed to amend the definition of