EBI Regulatory Report #247

  • Date February 24, 2026

EBI Report
on
Economic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:
International, EU and Euro Area Levels
(22 February 2026)

Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki
(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

 
Key developments during the week 16-20 February 2026:
 
20 February
  • ESMA: Supervisory Briefing on the AAR Representativeness Obligation
19 February
  • ECB/Eurosystem: Letter from the ECB President to Mr. Fabio de Masi and Mr. Dick Erixon, MEPs, on institutional matters (remuneration of the high-level ECB officials)
  • OECD: GDP growth continues to show a mixed picture across OECD countries in Q4 2025
  • Financial Stability Board (FSB): Strategic review of FSB crisis preparedness activities
  • FSB: Public responses to consultation on Scope of Insurers Subject to the Recovery and Resolution Planning Requirements in the FSB Key Attributes
  • ECB/SSM: ECB sanctions J.P. Morgan for misreporting capital requirements
  • ESMA: ESMA sanctions REGIS-TR for Serious Breaches of Organisational Obligations
  • ESMA: publication of List of Supplementary Deferrals for Sovereign Bonds:
    https://www.esma.europa.eu/press-news/esma-news/esma-publishes-list-supplementary-deferrals-sovereign-bonds (19/2/2026)
  • ESMA: seeking Input to Streamline and Simplify its Market Abuse Guidelines
18 February
  • ECB/Eurosystem: ECB and ONCE Foundation for Cooperation and Social Inclusion of People with Disabilities launch collaboration to ensure digital euro is accessible for everyone
  • ESMA: Statement supporting the smooth implementation of the Listing Act – simplifying prospectus compliance for issuers
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2026/349 of 17 February 2026 laying down technical information for the calculation of technical provisions and basic own funds for reporting with reference dates from 31 December 2025 until 30 March 2026 in accordance with the Solvency II Directive (OJ L, 2026/349, 18.2.2026)
  • EBA: ESG Dashboard update – stable climate risk indicators
  • EBA: Opinion to the European Commission on the draft amended European Sustainability Reporting Standards
  • ESMA: support to the Simplified European Sustainability Reporting Standards and suggestions for targeted adjustments
17 February
  • Basel Committee on Banking Supervision: Synthetic risk transfers
  • BIS Innovation Hub: Project Spectrum – using generative AI to enhance inflation nowcasting
16 February
  • EIOPA: publication of the first batch of Guidelines and draft technical standards related to the Insurance Recovery and Resolution Directive (IRRD)
  • EIOPA: Opinion on EFRAG’s technical advice on the draft revised European Sustainability Reporting Standards

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