EBA and ESMA launch a consultation to harmonise ‘fit-and-proper’ checks for senior bank and investment leaders, proposing clearer supervision, standardised suitability, and stronger AML safeguards – feedback by 25 May 2026

The proposed updates revise joint guidelines governing how institutions assess the suitability of management-body members and key function holders, reflecting legislative changes introduced under CRD VI and aiming to strengthen governance, competence and integrity...

ESMA issues a statement under MiCA setting out standardised, machine-readable formats for crypto transactions, identifiers, and white papers, strengthening transparency, traceability, and market integrity

The statement mandates that order-book and transaction records be maintained in machine-readable JSON format, that legal-entity clients and crypto-assets be identified using LEIs and DTIs respectively, and that crypto-asset white papers follow a standardised...