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EU overhauls Benchmarks Regulation

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The amendments will ease the compliance burden on benchmark administrators inside the EU, and non-EU who provide benchmarks for use within the EU.

The long-awaited overhaul of Regulation (EU) 2016/1011 (EU BMR) was published on the May 19, 2025. Regulation (EU) 2025/914 (the EU BMR Amending Regulation) amends and updates EU BMR to conduct a significant overhaul of the regime.

Executive summary

The key focus of amendments is changes in-scope leading to a significant

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