Europe should cut barriers to cross-border banking, says supervisory chair, while Apra warns AI governance and controls are not keeping pace with adoption

Pressure intensifies on the European Commission to tighten Mica’s stablecoin regime

Banks have been put on notice for a significant reset of credit-risk recognition, provisioning and prudential reporting

The legal challenge tests whether the FCA can use a mass-redress process to resolve a marketwide conduct failure

Large crypto platforms should face capital, liquidity and risk management requirements if they perform bank-like intermediation, the Bank for International Settlements said

US agencies updated model risk management guidance, the FCA finalised short-selling reforms, EBA in hunt for new exec director

From tokenised settlement to model governance and operational resilience, EU, US and UK updates point to firmer oversight direction

Banking regulators this week flagged fresh reporting changes, tokenisation plans and cross-border resilience work

The Bank of England’s latest MREL disclosure reveals revised resolution framework, the FCA finalises changes to short selling rules, Austrac warns of ‘alarming’ reporting gap in wealth management, and South Korea pushes capital-rule changes to free up more lending.

The ECB presses again for a real single banking market, the FSB warns several financial vulnerabilities could snap at once, China adjusts the rules on banks’ overseas lending, and India queries which non-banks belong in the top regulatory tier

The FCA sketches its vision for open finance, Thailand’s SEC opens two bond-related consultations, and the EBA offers a small but telling concession to reporting reality

China’s securities regulator sets out pipeline for the year, Hong Kong licenses its first stablecoin issuers, Australia’s prudential supervisor tidies up a niche liquidity question, and the FDIC retreats from earlier NFS fees guidance

The EBA opens a new simplification push on EU bank reporting, the ECB and ESRB publish a technical report on buffer usability, while the Fed seeks comment on changes to FedNow’s cross-border model

The US returns its attention to stablecoins and AML reform, banking agencies harden line against ‘reputation risk’ supervision, and the SEC brings back a former insider to run enforcement

The FCA and Bank of England open a new push to simplify wholesale market reporting, the PSR sets out its final-year priorities before folding into the FCA, and the CFTC makes two senior legal hires