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Our analysis of BaFin’s Digital Supervisory Briefing 2026 highlights the strategic shift toward greater proportionality and principle-based supervision (9th MaRisk amendment). The focus is on the increasing demands on the governance professionalism of management boards and the management of systemic risks through geopolitics, NPL increases, and DORA. At the same time, it highlights operational relief for SNCI institutions under the small banking regime and the LSI stress test. The article serves as a well-founded guide for institutions to understand regulatory leeway and ensure the expertise of their committees.
The Integrated Reporting System (IRS) is the target vision of a long-term transformation process in regulatory reporting. This article traces the long road to reform since the financial crisis, via IReF to a future IRS.