The Office of the Comptroller of the Currency found that all nine largest national banks it supervises maintained policies between 2020 and September 2025 that may have encouraged or influenced service restrictions based on beliefs or lawful business activities. It cited vague reputation risk standards and restrictions affecting sectors including fossil fuels, firearms and digital assets. The agency is assessing further regulatory and supervisory changes for the largest banks.

The National Bank of the Republic of Tajikistan and the IFC discussed reforms to expand SME finance and innovative financial services. Priorities included factoring and reverse factoring, a national electronic financing platform, instant payments, electronic money regulation and payment services legislation.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets has set thresholds and fines for investment firms that fail to report substantial MiFIR transaction reporting deficiencies. The starting fine is EUR 25,000 for a first violation and EUR 50,000 for a second within five years. Periodic checks will assess whether firms are voluntarily reporting incidents.

The Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets has updated its administrative fining policy, effective Oct. 15, 2026, to provide greater scope for tailored penalties. For more serious cases involving larger companies, turnover based fines will start at three to 10 times the base amount depending on company size, subject to possible proportionality reductions.

The Egypt Financial Regulatory Authority and Tunisia’s Microfinance Supervisory Authority discussed stronger oversight of enterprise finance, including risk management, compliance, customer protection and digital supervision. Egypt’s outstanding financing for medium, small and microenterprises exceeded EGP 101 billion in the second quarter of 2026, serving about 3.5 million customers. The authorities also reviewed affordability, collections, identity verification, pricing oversight and technology enabled financial products.

Central Bank of Bahrain Governor Khalid Humaidan chaired talks between GCC central bank governors and People’s Bank of China Governor Pan Gongsheng. The meeting covered investment ties, payment systems and broader financial cooperation, with digital payments identified as a key opportunity.

The Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority has proposed aligning reporting rules for insurance and occupational pension companies with IFRS 18, which replaces IAS 1 on Jan. 1, 2027. The proposal would clarify that IFRS 18 need not be applied when presenting the income statement and would make minor corrections without substantive regulatory changes.

The International Association of Insurance Supervisors has admitted the Central Bank of Hungary to its Multilateral Memorandum of Understanding. The agreement enables confidential information exchange and cooperation among insurance supervisors, with signatories now representing three-quarters of global gross written premiums.

The European Commission reported that the EU and Ukraine have opened accession negotiations covering 17 chapters across the internal market and competitiveness clusters. These include financial services, capital movement, competition, taxation and economic and monetary policy, with benchmarks set for provisional closure.

Morocco’s Supervisory Authority of Insurance and Social Welfare launched a digital platform for submitting and tracking policyholder and beneficiary claims, with access optimized for computers and mobile devices. Existing claims will continue under standard procedures without action from claimants.