Banking.Vision
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.
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The Integrated Reporting Framework (IReF) is the European Central Bank’s (ECB) central project for harmonizing statistical regulatory reporting across Europe. Originally, the ECB intended to publish the detailed implementation plan at the end of 2025. However, the publication has now been postponed to mid‑2026. What are the reasons behind this?
Banking.Vision
With the Payment Services Directive 3 (PSD3) and the new Payment Services Regulation (PSR), European payment transactions are facing a comprehensive regulatory realignment. With the agreement reached in the political trilogue at the end of last year, the regulations are now in the final stages. For banks and payment service providers, this marks the beginning of a phase in which reliable assumptions can be made for the first time for operational preparations.
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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.