International Regulatory Updates
DECEMBER 18, 2025
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the results of its 2025 stress test of occupational pension funds, which assessed the sector’s capacity to withstand rapid movements in yield curves and the liquidity pressures that arise from hedging positions whe ...
DECEMBER 16, 2025
The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published two factsheets designed to help consumers protect themselves from crypto and other online frauds and scams and explain how fraudsters increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to deceive consumers. To ...
DECEMBER 15, 2025
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the European Union’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has appointed Marie-Anne Barbat- Layani of Autorité Des Marchés Financiers (AMF), France and Christopher P. Buttigieg of Financial Services Authority (MFSA) Malta, as the new me ...
DECEMBER 15, 2025
NOVEMBER 24, 2025
The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA – the ESAs) publish today the list of designated critical ICT third-party providers (CTPPs) under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This designation marks a crucial step in the implementation of the DORA oversight framework.
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JULY 21, 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) has published on its website a report on the sanctioning activities across the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). This report has been prepared by the SSM Network of Enforcement and Sanctions Experts to present comprehensive statistics on sanctioning activities in re ...
JANUARY 21, 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) will stress test a total of 96 directly supervised banks in 2025. Specifically, ECB supervisors will examine 51 of the euro area’s largest banks, representing around 75% of the euro area’s banking assets, as part of the 2025 EU-wide stress test coordinated by the� ...
JANUARY 02, 2025
The European Central Bank (ECB) has imposed an administrative penalty of €10.4 million on BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV for reporting miscalculated risk-weighted assets for credit risk.
Between 2014 and 2021, for 31 consecutive quarters, BNP Paribas Fortis SA/NV understated its risk-weighted assets ...
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The Executive Board of the European Central Bank (ECB) has appointed Karin Turner-Hrdlicka as Director General On-site and Internal Model Inspections. In her new role, Ms Turner-Hrdlicka will be responsible for on-site inspections and internal model investigations of directly supervised banks ac ...
DECEMBER 20, 2024
The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) published today the results of its 2024 Insurance Stress Test in which it assessed European insurers’ ability to cope with the economic and financial fallout from a resurgence of geopolitical tensions. The exercise shows that ins ...
