EBA
European Banking Authority
Account registers compared across the EU
How Spain, France, Italy, Germany and the Netherlands collect account data: event-driven registers, periodic files, a queried file and one live connection.
Testing a new return before the first submission
How to test a regulatory return before filing it for the first time: enrolment lead time, parallel runs, test submissions and the…
Surviving a framework release — the upgrade playbook
Managing a reporting framework or taxonomy release: read applicability per module, diff the data points, and rehearse before the first affected reference…
Reconciling returns — which differences are real
How to reconcile regulatory returns against each other and the ledger: which differences are definitional and expected, and which are defects worth…
Mapping source data to a reporting template
How to map source data to a supervisory return: work from the data point model rather than the grid, handle dimensions first,…
Building a regulatory reporting pipeline that survives
How a regulatory reporting pipeline is actually built: the five stages, why the mapping layer must be a versioned artefact, and where…
ECB payment statistics — the derogation nobody claims
Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 on payment statistics: who reports, the proportionality derogations for payment and e-money firms, and the ECB list defence.
Remote onboarding compared — six EU markets
Remote customer onboarding compared across Spain, Germany, France, Italy, Luxembourg and the Netherlands: four regulatory models and what each demands.
De-risking — the line between exit and exclusion
De-risking explained: why blanket category exits are hard to defend under EU AML law, what Article 21 actually requires, and how to…
Information-sharing partnerships — the AMLR gateway
Information-sharing partnerships under AMLR Article 75: what members may share, the supervisory notification before activities begin, and the DPIA gate.