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 3 December 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation paper containing draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) amending Delegated Regulation 2017/390 as regards certain prudential requirements for central securities depositories (CSDs) and designated credit institutions offering banking-type ancillary services.
Background
In March 2022, the European Commission proposed
On 26 November 2025, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) published its Work Programme for 2026.
Next year the SRM will continue to build on the Single Resolution Mechanism Vision 2028 strategy which will include the further operationalisation of tools and applying revised methodologies such as the revamped resolvability assessment and dry runs