Compliance & Ethics

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.

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.

ASIC Form 545 is the statement a liquidator lodges to confirm that notices were sent to persons on the final list or supplementary list of contributories under Regulation 5.6.62. It must be lodged within one month of the notices being sent. Late lodgement triggers fees, and a form is not treated as lodged until ASIC accepts it. This is a procedural form, not a new rule, but it matters for compliance teams involved in insolvency and wind-up processes.

ASIC's Form 106 and its accompanying guide set out the limited circumstances in which a document already lodged on the public register can be withdrawn, namely duplication or an error where exceptional circumstances exist. Lodgement does not guarantee withdrawal, and many document types cannot be withdrawn at all. Compliance teams should treat lodgement accuracy as a front-end control, because corrections are discretionary and the withdrawn record stays visible.

ASIC's Form 506 (version dated 27 January 2021) requires liquidators, receivers, and controllers to notify ASIC of an address change within 14 days. Late lodgement triggers fees. Administrators, deed administrators, scheme administrators, and restructuring practitioners have no lodgement requirement. Insolvency practitioners and the firms that engage them should confirm their internal processes meet this deadline.

BaFin has warned that unknown callers are spoofing its telephone number to pressure consumers into transferring money. BaFin states it never contacts private individuals unsolicited by phone to request or demand transfers, and it does not use third parties to do so. Compliance teams should treat this as an impersonation-fraud and consumer-protection signal that calls for customer communication and updates to fraud controls.

A Deutsche Bundesbank discussion paper (No. 27/2026) finds that optimal monetary policy should still look through sectoral shocks, such as energy price spikes, even if inflation expectations may de-anchor. However, the nominal interest rate response needed to achieve the same output and inflation outcomes is more aggressive. The paper creates no compliance obligations, but it is relevant to institutions' interest rate risk, stress testing, and scenario planning.