Middle East & Africa Reg Desk

Friday, 2026-11-06 · covering the last 24h

Gulf

Nothing further this window from Saudi Arabia's CMA or Tadawul, the UAE's DFSA/ADGM/Capital Market Authority, Qatar's QFMA/QSE or Kuwait's CMA/Boursa Kuwait. SAMA, CBUAE and QCB stayed quiet too.

Israel

A quiet window for the ISA and the Bank of Israel's Banking Supervision Department.

Africa

SARB pushes back the Jibar cessation date by five months. A 3 November media release extends the retirement of the Johannesburg Interbank Average Rate from 31 December 2026 to 31 May 2027, after Deputy Governor Rashad Cassim told the Market Practitioners Group conference that the legislative fix needed for "tough legacy" contracts referencing Jibar is not yet ready. ZARONIA remains the designated successor rate; a forward-looking Term ZARONIA is still being built to underpin a synthetic-Jibar fallback for those legacy contracts — this is a benchmark-transition delay, not a reversal. SARB media release

Beyond that, South Africa's FSCA and JSE had nothing else of structural weight, and Egypt, Nigeria, Kenya and Morocco's regulators and central banks stayed quiet on the rulemaking front.

Informational only — summaries of public regulatory and central bank sources; not advice.