EBI Regulatory Report #231
EBI Report
on
Economic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:
International, EU and Euro Area Levels
(17 October 2025)
Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki
(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)
All previous entries have been put in 4 archives, which can be retrieved here.
Key developments from 13 – 17 October:
17 October
- ECB Regulation (EU) 2025/1958 of 9 September 2025 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/534 on reporting of supervisory financial information (ECB/2015/13) (ECB/2025/31) (OJ L, 2025/1958, 17.10.2025)
- SRB: launch of public consultation on communication guidance for banks:
- ESMA: New Q&As
- BIS Innovation Hub: Project Symbiosis – AI and big data technologies for supply chain sustainability disclosure
16 October
- Eurogroup President Donohoe’s report to the President of the Euro Summit: Europe’s economy remains resilient despite rising global trade tensions
- FSB: Thematic Peer Review on the FSB Global Regulatory Framework for Crypto-asset Activities – significant gaps and inconsistencies in implementation of crypto and stablecoin recommendations
- ESAs’ Joint Committee: Work Programme for 2026
- IOSCO: Thematic Review Assessing the Implementation of IOSCO Recommendations for Crypto and Digital Asset Markets
- ESMA: Second Consolidated Report on Sanctions
- EIOPA: update of the risk-free interest rate (RFR) Technical Documentation
15 October
- EBA: 2024 Report on supervisory convergence
- EBA and ESMA: Recommendations for targeted revisions to the investment firms’ prudential framework
- SRB: A decade of safeguarding financial stability in the EU
14 October
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1265 of 1 July 2025 supplementing the CRR with regard to RTSs specifying the method for identifying the main risk driver of a position and for determining whether a transaction represents a long or a short position as referred to in Articles 94(3), 273a(3) and 325a(2) (OJ L, 2025/1265, 14.10.2025)
- Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/1311 of 3 July 2025 supplementing the CRR with regard to RTSs specifying the conditions for assessing the materiality of extensions of, and changes to, the use of alternative internal models, and changes to the subset of the modellable risk factors (OJ L, 2025/1311, 14.10.2025)
- EBA: finding that white labelling is widely used in banking and payments
- Regulation (EU) 2025/2075 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 8 October 2025 amending Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (CSDR) as regards a shorter settlement cycle in the Union (OJ L, 2025/2075, 14.10.2025)
- EIOPA: new Guidelines to promote diversity on (re)insurers’ boards
- ESMA: 2025 European Common Enforcement Priorities and Results of Fact-finding on Materiality considerations in sustainability reporting
13 October
- ECB Decision (EU) 2025/2015 of 23 September 2025 on transitional provisions for the application of minimum reserves by the ECB following the introduction of the euro in Bulgaria (ECB/2025/33) (OJ L, 2025/2015, 13.10.2025)
- ECB: setting of transitional provisions for minimum reserve requirements following introduction of euro in Bulgaria
- FSB Chair warning: Incomplete reform implementation leaves financial system vulnerable to shocks
- EBA: update of list of third-country groups and branches operating in the EU and the European Economic Area
- ESMA: proposals for Key Reforms to Settlement Discipline, supporting the transition To T+1
- EIOPA: call for evidence on defined contribution (DC) pensions for the development of a practical toolkit