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Press Release 18 December 2025

EBA, ECB, national central banks and national supervisory authorities sign MoU in support of non-bank PSPs’ access to payment systems

The European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), national central banks and national supervisory authorities across the European Economic Area have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and information sharing in support of non-bank payment service providers’ (PSPs) access to central bank-operated payment systems.

Press Release 18 December 2025

The EBA publishes an update of its equivalence monitoring activities

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its confidential Report on equivalence monitoring activities and submitted it to European Parliament, the Council, the European Commission and the other European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). To enhance transparency, the EBA also published a public summary outlining recent regulatory and supervisory developments in 26 non-EU jurisdictions deemed equivalent under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).

DORA 121 - ICT risk management (standard vs simplified depending on type of entity)

Question ID
DORA 121
Receiving ESA
ESMA
URL
https://www.esma.europa.eu/publications-data/questions-answers/2292
Final publishing date
Question

Is a small and non-interconnected investment firm (Art. 12 (1) IFR (Regulation (EU) 2019/2033)) that also holds a licence as a crowdfunding service provider according to Art. 12 ECSPR (Regulation (EU) 2020/1503) obligated to apply Art. 5-15 DORA or is it allowed to use the simplified ICT risk management framework of Art. 16 DORA?

Topic
ICT risk management
Subject matter
ICT risk management (standard vs simplified depending on type of entity)

DORA237 - Scope of application of DORA for intermediaries

Question ID
DORA237
Receiving ESA
EIOPA
URL
https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/qa-regulation/questions-and-answers-database/dora23…
Final publishing date
Question

Considering that insurance and reinsurance intermediaries and ancillary insurance intermediaries are not obliged by law to setup a dedicated legal entity to carry out insurance distribution and therefore some of them may have a principal professional activity other than insurance distribution, how should the calculation of the thresholds defined in DORA Article 2(3) point (e) for exclusion of those intermediaries which are micro, small or medium enterprises be interpreted?

Topic
Other DORA topics
Subject matter
Scope of application of DORA for intermediaries

DORA102 - DORA application to third-country branches

Question ID
DORA102
Receiving ESA
EIOPA
URL
https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/qa-regulation/questions-and-answers-database/dora10…
Final publishing date
Question

Is Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA) applicable to third-country branches in an EU country, if in the third country where their head office is established they would qualify as entities listed under under Article 2(1)(a), (n) or (o)?

Topic
Other DORA topics
Subject matter
DORA application to third-country branches