EBI Regulatory Report #254

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

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

 
Key developments during the week 20-24 April
24 April
  • ECB: agreements with European standard setters to facilitate digital euro payments
  • EIOPA: draft technical standards on the functioning of resolution colleges and on reporting requirements for resolution plans under IRRD
23 April
  • Financial Stability Institute (FSI): Crypto-asset service providers as financial intermediaries: risks and policy approaches, Occasional papers No 27
  • ECB/SSM: List of supervised entities – Cut-off date 1 March 2026
  • EBA: response to the Commission’s proposed changes to its draft technical standards on operational risk
  • EBA: Report shows persistent gender imbalance and pay gaps in EU banking leadership
21 April
  • Committee on Payments and Market Infrastructures (CPMI): The future of financial messaging: navigating the ISO 20022 migration journey
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2026/110 of 16 January 2026 supplementing Council Directive (EU) 2025/50 (on faster and safer relief of excess withholding taxes) with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the methodology for the calculation of market capitalisation and the market capitalisation ratio (OJ L, 2026/110, 21.4.2026)
  • ESMA: publication of the 2025 European Single Electronic Format (ESEF) with updated Taxonomy
  • International Association of Insurance Supervisors (IAIS): Aggregate Report on the peer review process on ICP 13 (Reinsurance and other forms of risk transfer)
20 April
  • Regulation (EU) 2026/808 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 March 2026 amending the SRMR as regards early intervention measures, conditions for resolution and funding of resolution action (OJ L, 2026/808, 20.4.2026)
  • Directive (EU) 2026/804 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 March 2026 amending the DGSD as regards the scope of deposit protection, the use of deposit guarantee schemes funds, cross-border cooperation, and transparency (OJ L, 2026/804, 20.4.2026)
  • Directive (EU) 2026/806 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 30 March 2026 amending the BRRD as regards early intervention measures, conditions for resolution and funding of resolution action and Directive 2014/24/EU as regards valuation services in resolution  (OJ L, 2026/806, 20.4.2026)
  • SRB statement: Crisis Management and Deposit Insurance publication in the Official Journal of the EU
  • EIOPA and Joint Research Centre (JRC) of the European Commission: Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation in advancing evidence-based research on natural catastrophe risks
  • EIOPA: updated Guidelines to facilitate information-sharing within supervisory colleges

All previous reports are kept in four (4) archives. These can be found here.