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🇪🇺 ECB Enforcement critical

ECB sanctions BofA Securities Europe SA for breaching reporting requirements

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The ECB imposed a €6.2 million penalty on BofA Securities Europe SA for intentionally breaching market risk reporting requirements between 2022 and 2024. The bank systematically underreported risk-weighted assets by including unauthorized sovereign bond option positions in its internal models, resulting in inflated capital ratios and misrepresented financial strength—a "severe" breach that signals the ECB's heightened enforcement focus on reporting accuracy and internal control governance.

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Banking & CreditCapital Markets & TradingInvestment Management
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🇪🇺 ESMA Warning high

ESAs spring risk update highlights geopolitical pressures and rising private finance risks

ESAs spring risk update highlights geopolitical pressures and rising private finance risks 27 March 2026 Joint Committee Risk monitoring The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published their spring 2026 Joint Committee update on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU financial system. The update focuses on the challenges arising from ongoing geopolitical tensions and developments in private finance. Geopolitical tensions continue to pose significant risks Th...

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Banking & CreditInvestment ManagementInsurance & Pensions
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsOperational Resilience / OutsourcingESG
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🇪🇺 ECB Enforcement high

ECB sanctions Nordea subsidiary for breaching limit on large exposures

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The ECB imposed a €2.26 million penalty on Nordea Finance Finland Ltd for incorrectly reporting large exposures by assigning guaranteed receivables to debtors instead of guarantors, breaching the 25% capital limit for 13 quarters from 2021-2024 due to serious negligence and internal control deficiencies. This enforcement action underscores the ECB's strict enforcement of large exposure rules under EU banking regulations, serving as a warning for banks on accurate counterparty identification and robust controls. Compliance professionals must prioritize exposure calculation accuracy to avoid severe penalties classified as "severe" under ECB guidelines.

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Banking & CreditMortgage & Lending
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsReporting & Disclosure
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🇪🇺 ESMA Consultation high

ESMA consults on post-trade risk reduction services under EMIR 3

ESMA consults on post-trade risk reduction services under EMIR 3 26 February 2026 Post Trading The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has launched a consultation on the requirements for how post-trade risk reduction (PTRR) services can benefit from the conditioned exemption from the clearing obligation introduced under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3). ESMA is seeking feedback on several elements of the ...

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ESMA has launched a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that establish requirements for **post-trade risk reduction (PTRR) services** to qualify for a conditioned exemption from the mandatory clearing obligation under EMIR 3. This framework is critical because it balances market efficiency gains from risk reduction tools against systemic risk concerns, requiring compliance professionals to understand new operational, transparency, and monitoring requirements before the standards take effect.

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Capital Markets & TradingBanking & Credit
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Reporting & DisclosurePrudential / Capital RequirementsOperational Resilience / Outsourcing
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🇪🇺 ESMA Consultation high

The EBA and ESMA consult on revised suitability assessment requirements for banks and investment firms

The EBA and ESMA consult on revised suitability assessment requirements for banks and investment firms 25 February 2026 Investor protection The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today launched a consultation on the revised joint guidelines on the assessment of the suitability of members of the management body and key function holders . The revised guidelines form part of a broader package designed to harmonise suitability assessments and...

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The EBA and ESMA have launched a consultation on revised joint guidelines updating suitability assessments for management body members and key function holders in banks and investment firms, incorporating new requirements from the revised CRD and MiFID II to enhance harmonization and supervisory convergence. This matters for compliance professionals as it introduces mandatory assessments for additional roles, strengthens AML/CFT links, and includes simplifications to reduce burdens, potentially impacting governance processes once finalized and replacing the 2021 guidelines.

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Banking & CreditInvestment ManagementCapital Markets & Trading
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Senior Managers / GovernanceAML / Financial CrimePrudential / Capital Requirements
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🇪🇺 ESMA Consultation high

ESMA consults on guarantees as CCP collateral and on certain aspects of CCP investment policy

ESMA consults on guarantees as CCP collateral and on certain aspects of CCP investment policy 23 February 2026 CCP The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has launched a public consultation following the review of the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR 3). ESMA is encouraging all interested stakeholders, including non-financial counterparties (NFCs), to share their views about: the relevant conditions under which ...

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ESMA has launched a public consultation under EMIR 3 to gather stakeholder input on conditions for CCPs accepting public guarantees, public bank guarantees, and commercial bank guarantees as collateral, eligibility of debt instruments for CCP investment policies, and secured arrangements for emission allowances as margins or default fund contributions. This matters because it permanently broadens eligible collateral types and extends access to NFC clients, enhancing EU CCP efficiency, competitiveness, and accessibility amid liquidity pressures in energy and other markets.

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Capital Markets & TradingBanking & CreditPayments & E-Money
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsReporting & DisclosureOperational Resilience / Outsourcing
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🇪🇺 ESMA Guidance high

ESMA publishes a supervisory briefing on the AAR representativeness obligation

ESMA publishes a supervisory briefing on the AAR representativeness obligation 20 February 2026 CCP The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has published a supervisory briefing on the representativeness obligation linked to the active account requirement (AAR). The briefing sets out ESMA’s supervisory expectations for how counterparties should comply with and report on the AAR representativeness obligation. It provides guidanc...

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ESMA has published supervisory guidance clarifying how counterparties must comply with the **representativeness obligation** under the Active Account Requirement (AAR), a key component of EMIR 3 that mandates EU counterparties maintain active accounts at EU central counterparties (CCPs) and clear representative volumes of derivatives trades. This briefing is critical because market participants and regulators have held conflicting interpretations of the representativeness requirement, creating compliance uncertainty that this guidance now resolves.

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Capital Markets & TradingBanking & CreditInvestment Management
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Reporting & DisclosureOperational Resilience / OutsourcingPrudential / Capital Requirements
Asset ManagerBroker DealerBank
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🇪🇺 ECB Enforcement high

ECB sanctions J.P. Morgan for misreporting capital requirements

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The ECB imposed €12.18 million in penalties on J.P. Morgan SE on 19 February 2026 for misreporting risk-weighted assets (RWAs) from 2019-2024 due to misclassification of corporate exposures (15 quarters) and improper exclusion of transactions in credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk calculations (21 quarters), both attributed to serious negligence and internal control failures. This enforcement action underscores the ECB's focus on accurate prudential reporting, as underreported RWAs led to overstated capital ratios, distorting supervisory oversight of the bank's risk profile and capital adequacy. Compliance teams must prioritize RWA calculation integrity to avoid similar "severe" and "moderately severe" sanctions under the ECB's penalty guide.

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Banking & Credit
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsReporting & Disclosure
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🇪🇺 ESMA Consultation high

ESMA publishes list of supplementary deferrals for sovereign bonds

ESMA publishes list of supplementary deferrals for sovereign bonds 19 February 2026 Post Trading The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), together with National Competent Authorities (NCAs), has agreed supplementary deferrals that may be applied on top of the standard Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) deferral regime for sovereign bonds. ESMA and all NCAs, except the National Bank of Slovakia (NBS), have decided to allow the following supplementary deferrals: fo...

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ESMA has authorized **supplementary deferrals for sovereign bond post-trade transparency**, allowing market participants to omit transaction volumes from immediate publication for medium-sized trades on liquid bonds, with full disclosure required by end-of-day. This measure balances market transparency with liquidity protection in EU sovereign bond markets, effective May 4, 2026, with a compressed implementation timeline requiring immediate compliance planning.

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Capital Markets & TradingInvestment ManagementBanking & Credit
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Reporting & DisclosureMarket Abuse / SurveillanceOperational Resilience / Outsourcing
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🇪🇺 ESMA News low

Upcoming changes to the Euribor Panel

Upcoming changes to the Euribor Panel 18 February 2026 Benchmarks The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, is issuing a statement on the upcoming changes to the Euribor panel, in its capacity as supervisor of the European Money Market Institute (EMMI), administrator of Euribor. This statement concerns the announcement by EMMI that Barclays Bank PLC (BBPLC), based in the United Kingdom, will withdraw from the Euribor panel. The ...

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Banking & CreditCapital Markets & Trading
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsReporting & Disclosure
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🇪🇺 ECB Enforcement critical

ECB imposes periodic penalty payments on Crédit Agricole for failing to sufficiently identify climate risks

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The ECB imposed a €7.55 million periodic penalty payment on Crédit Agricole for failing to complete a climate-related and environmental (C&E) risk materiality assessment by the May 31, 2024 deadline, marking the second enforcement action in the ECB's escalating shift from guidance to active enforcement on climate risk supervision. This enforcement demonstrates that the ECB is moving beyond symbolic warnings to substantial financial penalties, signaling that banks must treat climate risk identification and assessment as mandatory compliance obligations rather than discretionary best practices.

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Banking & CreditCapital Markets & Trading
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsESGReporting & Disclosure
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🇪🇺 ESMA News medium

ESMA signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Reserve Bank of India

ESMA signs Memorandum of Understanding with the Reserve Bank of India 27 January 2026 CCP International cooperation The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), the EU’s financial markets regulator and supervisor, has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Reserve Bank of India (RBI) to facilitate cooperation and exchange of information for the recognition of central counterparties (CCPs) established in India and supervised by RBI. This agreement marks a significant step...

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Banking & CreditCapital Markets & Trading
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsAuthorisation & Licensing
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🇪🇺 ESMA News high

The European Supervisory Authorities and UK financial regulators sign Memorandum of Understanding on oversight of critical ICT third-party service providers under DORA

The European Supervisory Authorities and UK financial regulators sign Memorandum of Understanding on oversight of critical ICT third-party service providers under DORA 14 January 2026 Digital Finance and Innovation International cooperation The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) have today signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the Bank of England (BoE), the Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA), and the Financial Conduct Authority (FCA). This agreement...

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Banking & CreditInvestment ManagementWealth & Private Banking
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Operational Resilience / OutsourcingTechnology & Cyber
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🇪🇺 ESMA Consultation medium

ESAs publish joint Guidelines on ESG stress testing

ESAs publish joint Guidelines on ESG stress testing 08 January 2026 Guidelines and Technical standards Joint Committee The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - the ESAs) published today their Joint Guidelines on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) stress testing . These Guidelines provide national insurance and banking supervisors with clear guidance on how to integrate ESG risks into supervisory stress tests, both when using established frameworks and when conducti...

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The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs)—EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA—published final Joint Guidelines on 8 January 2026 to standardize how national competent authorities (NCAs) integrate ESG risks into supervisory stress testing frameworks for banking and insurance sectors, without mandating new ESG-specific tests. These guidelines promote consistency, long-term methodologies, and common standards across the EU, initially prioritizing climate and environmental risks (physical and transition) before expanding to social and governance factors. They matter for compliance professionals as they shape future supervisory expectations, enhancing resilience assessments and aligning with CRD (Article 100(4)) and Solvency II (Article 304c(3)) mandates, potentially influencing firm-level stress testing preparations.

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Banking & CreditInsurance & Pensions
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Prudential / Capital RequirementsESG
BankInsurance
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