GRC Report Staff

The Deutsche Bundesbank announced a multi-ISIN auction on September 16, 2026, to increase two existing federal bonds (2047 and 2056 maturities), with a market maintenance quota of EUR $2.5 Billion. Compliance teams at Bundesbank Bidding Group members and institutions with Bund exposure should confirm bidding eligibility, operational readiness, and settlement controls ahead of the tight same-day bidding window.

In a speech in Dublin, EIOPA's Chair framed Ireland's pension consolidation, the new authorization regime, and the MyFuture auto-enrolment fund as a major transition that places heavy demands on trustee governance and data quality. The speech signals a shift toward forward-looking, risk-based supervision and urges schemes to begin authorization preparations now. Compliance teams at schemes, providers, and sponsors should treat it as a supervisory signal, not as new binding rules.

The Norway Financial Supervisory Authority (Finanstilsynet) has published a warning about blockchain-support.fr, a website that the French Autorité des marchés financiers (AMF) has listed on its blacklist of impersonation (usurpation) sites. Compliance teams should treat the domain as a likely fraud vector, block it, and use it to strengthen customer-protection and fraud-prevention controls.

In a keynote at the Nordic Financial Crime and Sanctions Forum, AMLA Executive Board Member Rikke-Louise Ørum Petersen set out how the authority will build a common European view of risk, improve the use of financial intelligence, and turn those insights into more consistent supervision. The speech is not binding, but it signals near-term milestones that compliance teams should plan for: private-sector information-sharing partnerships from July 2027 and AMLA direct supervision from 2028.

Spain's largest listed companies would be urged to separate the roles of board chairman and chief executive under proposed changes to the country's corporate governance code, part of a broader effort to strengthen oversight without adding to the volume of rules companies are expected to follow.

The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency has instructed bank examiners not to treat super intelligence as a separate category of risk, drawing a boundary around how the emerging technology should be supervised as financial institutions expand its use. The framework directs examiners to consider what an intelligent system is authorized to do, the consequences if it fails, and how much human oversight remains in place. The sophistication of the technology itself need not determine its risk classification.

The Central Bank of the UAE has put cybersecurity, fraud prevention, corporate governance and emerging technologies on its supervisory agenda for 2027, outlining its priorities during a meeting with the country's banking and insurance executives in Abu Dhabi on Wednesday. The meeting brought together senior central bank officials and chief executives for the UAE Financial Sector Supervisory Roundtable, where discussions ranged from the suitability of financial institution leadership to the growing use of artificial intelligence and digital assets. The gathering also offered a look at the Central Bank of the UAE's (CBUAE) strategy for 2027 through 2029, with operational resilience and closer coordination between supervisors and financial institutions receiving particular attention.