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risk-based and other related returns to the PA in accordance with the requirements
specified in this Directive.</description><pubDate>2026-04-29T00:00:00Z</pubDate><category>PA Deposit-takers &gt; Mutual Bank Directives</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-deposit-takers/Mutual-Banks-Directive/2026/directive-1-of-2026-mutual-banks</guid></item><item><title>Directive 2 of 2026 - Regulation 46 of the Regulations relating to Banks</title><link>/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-deposit-takers/banks-directives/2026/D2-of-2026-regulations-relating-to-banks</link><description>Reporting requirements in terms of regulation 46 of the Regulations relating to Banks</description><pubDate>2026-04-28T11:15:00Z</pubDate><category>PA Deposit-takers &gt; Banks Directives</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-deposit-takers/banks-directives/2026/D2-of-2026-regulations-relating-to-banks</guid></item><item><title>Composite Business Cycle Indicators – April 2026</title><link>/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/composite-business-cycle-indicators/2026/CompositeBusinessCycleIndicatorsApril2026</link><description>Composite Business Cycle Indicators </description><pubDate>2026-04-28T09:00:00Z</pubDate><category>Composite Business Cycle Indicators | What's New</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/composite-business-cycle-indicators/2026/CompositeBusinessCycleIndicatorsApril2026</guid></item><item><title>Joint Communication 3 of 2026 - Publication of Joint Standard 1 of 2026: Minimum requirements for the recovery plans of market infrastructures and related guidance</title><link>/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-public-awareness/Communication/2026/Joint-Communication-3-of-2026</link><description>The Joint Standard sets out the minimum requirements for market infrastructures in developing their recovery plans. The minimum requirements are designed to aid market infrastructures in developing recovery plans that are aimed at ensuring that a threat to the market infrastructure does not impair its prudent management of the business and to enable the market infrastructure to recover from such a threat while continuing to provide its critical services without requiring the use of resolution powers</description><pubDate>2026-04-28T00:00:00Z</pubDate><category>PA Public Awareness &gt; Communication | Prudential Authority</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-public-awareness/Communication/2026/Joint-Communication-3-of-2026</guid></item><item><title>Guidance Notice 1 of 2026 - Guidance on Bail-in in relation to Flac instruments</title><link>/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/PA-resolution-authority/2026/Guidance-Notice-1-of-2026</link><description>This Guidance Notice aims to provide clarity on the understanding and application of the requirements set out in the Prudential Standard RA03: Flac Instrument Requirements for Designated Institutions (Prudential Standard), specifically with regards to the bail-in resolution power and how it relates to the Flac instrument requirements.</description><pubDate>2026-04-28T00:00:00Z</pubDate><category>PA Resolution Authority  &gt; PA Prudential Standards | Prudential Authority</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/PA-resolution-authority/2026/Guidance-Notice-1-of-2026</guid></item><item><title>Prudential Authority Communication to the Financial Sector: Preparing for Frontier AI and AI Accelerated Cyber Risk</title><link>/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-public-awareness/Financial-Sector-Awareness/2026/preparing-for-frontier-ai-and-ai-accelerated-cyber-risk</link><description>The purpose of this communication is to raise awareness of a material shift in the cyber‑risk landscape arising from rapid advances in artificial intelligence (AI). </description><pubDate>2026-04-24T12:11:00Z</pubDate><category>PA Public Awareness &gt; Financial sector awareness</category><guid>/content/sarb-project/en/home/publications/publication-detail-pages/prudential-authority/pa-public-awareness/Financial-Sector-Awareness/2026/preparing-for-frontier-ai-and-ai-accelerated-cyber-risk</guid></item></channel></rss>