Deutsche Bank has been fined €8 million by Germany’s financial regulator for failing to handle customer complaints promptly and delaying securities account transfers during the migration of Postbank customers to its shared IT platform in 2023.
A sharp fall in financial asset prices could leave Australian institutions facing higher funding costs and diminished investment values. A disruption at a major technology provider could affect several institutions at once. The Australian Prudential Regulation Authority (APRA) is concerned about the possibility of such pressures occurring together.
The Canadian Securities Administrators (CSA), through the Ontario Securities Commission, has published a notice and request for comment on proposed amendments to National Instrument 81-102 Investment Funds. The amendments would provide exemptions from certain repurchase transaction requirements for investment funds. Only the title and metadata were available for this review, so compliance teams should read the full PDF before relying on any detail below.
FINRA filed SR-FINRA-2026-020 for immediate effectiveness, postponing all remaining fee increases adopted in the 2024 Fee Filing by two years. Members will pay 2026 rates from 2027 through 2028, with a median savings rate of 7.2% and approximately USD $718 Million in aggregate savings over 2027 to 2030. Compliance and finance teams should update budgets, fee pass-through disclosures, and forecasts now.
The FCA's Feedback Statement FS26/2 concludes that FCA regulation is not a major barrier to SME access to finance, though it identifies frictions in duplicated customer checks, Consumer Credit Act (CCA) requirements, and broker incentives. The FCA will focus on three workstreams: digital verification, proportionate CCA reform, and open finance. Compliance teams at lenders, brokers, and fintechs should prepare for changes affecting onboarding, regulated lending, and data sharing.
The Deutsche Bundesbank, acting for the German federal government, will increase two federal bonds (2047 and 2056 maturities) through a multi-ISIN auction on September 23, 2026, targeting a combined EUR $2 Billion market maintenance quota. The notice is operational rather than a new regulatory obligation, but it matters to compliance teams at Federal Bidding Group member institutions, which must meet the bid submission rules, cutoffs, and settlement timeline.
At its second Proportionality Conference, BaFin said that simplified supervisory rules for less significant institutions (LSIs) give banks more freedom, but that freedom depends on responsible use. BaFin ties its push for a small bank regime in Europe to LSIs avoiding unnecessary restructuring and showing sound risk judgment. Compliance teams should expect a more principles-based, trust-driven supervisory dialogue in which citing legal provisions alone will not be enough.
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