ESMA announces cyber risk and digital resilience as its 2026 supervisory priorities, focusing on DORA implementation and stronger EU coordination to boost financial system resilience

ESMA underscores that the activation of the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) from January 2025 has sharpened its focus on enhancing ICT risk-management and digital operational resilience across the EU securities sector, noting strong engagement by national competent authorities (NCAs) to date. It further indicates that for 2026 the NCAs will build on their 2025 work on ESG disclosures and other priority themes, while ESMA remains ready to trigger supervisory action on additional emerging risks identified at Union-level…