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§ 10 · REGULATORY RECORD

Regulatory Record

Every document this project has sent to a public authority and published here, in one place: the date, the authority and the matter, the document as served with its SHA-256 digest and size, and what the record shows happened next. 11 entries, 10 served documents, 9 authorities.

Receipt, circulation or publication of a submission means it was received, circulated or published. None of it is endorsement, adoption or evaluation by the authority concerned, and no authority has expressed a view on the instrument.

Statuses are as recorded on 25 October 2026 and each carries its own date. A sent document is never re-issued: a correction reaches its reader through this site, as a dated note beside the document and an entry in the public record. To verify a document, download it and compare sha256sum with the digest shown.

18 October 2026
Federal Reserve Board · United States
Docket No. OP-1880 — community bank guide
Comment letter

Comment on the proposed community bank guide

PDF · sha256 1357edc03de6…4635f8c7 · 312 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Filed by e-mail on 18 October 2026. No acknowledgement found; publication by the Board not confirmed.

18 October 2026
Federal Reserve Board, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, National Credit Union Administration · United States
Docket No. OP-1881 / OCC-2026-0793 / ZRIN 3064-ZA58 / NCUA-2026-1684 — interagency third-party risk management guidance
Comment letter (one document, four agencies)

Comment on the proposed interagency guidance on third-party risk management

PDF · sha256 b460ba256327…3f19054d · 309 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Filed 18 October 2026: Board and FDIC by e-mail; OCC and NCUA through regulations.gov, which issued submission receipts with tracking numbers mvd-ieu5-zjgs and mvd-ilbj-if80. No acknowledgement beyond those receipts; publication by the agencies not confirmed.

18 October 2026
U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission · United States
File No. S7-2026-30 — Transfer Agent Rules (Release No. 34-106246)
Comment letter

Comment on the proposed transfer agent rules

PDF · sha256 0dd138da82b8…c5351636 · 351 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Filed by e-mail to the Commission's comment address on 18 October 2026. No acknowledgement found; publication in the comment file not confirmed.

17 October 2026
UK Competition and Markets Authority · United Kingdom
Microsoft business software SMS investigation — consultation on the proposed decision and roadmap
Consultation response

Consultation response on the proposed decision in the Microsoft business software SMS investigation

PDF · sha256 fcb5cf81f907…e117f5b8 · 357 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Sent 17 October 2026; safe receipt confirmed by the case team on 19 October 2026, under review. The consultation closes on 13 November 2026 and the statutory decision is due by 13 February 2027.

7 September 2026
European Commission — Directorate-General for Competition · European Union
DMA.100236 — market investigation into cloud computing services (Digital Markets Act, Article 19)
Information provision

Information provision on structural lock-in in cloud services

PDF · sha256 b7f04cd6d3a6…fe6cdd4d · 419 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Sent 7 September 2026. On 30 September 2026 the Commission confirmed that the document had been passed to and reviewed by the DMA.100236 team; technical and methodological questions followed on 7 October and a written response was sent on 10 October 2026 (not published here). Awaiting the Commission since.

31 August 2026
UK Competition and Markets Authority · United Kingdom
Microsoft business software strategic market status investigation
Information provision (unsolicited)

Information provision on structural lock-in in business software

PDF · sha256 58c18fa88a09…65e90a1a · 431 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Sent 31 August 2026; the case team confirmed on 1 September 2026 that it had been circulated. A put-back process notice (11 September) and a confidentiality-ring notice (6 October) were answered; neither is a view on the content.

30 August 2026
Japan Fair Trade Commission · Japan
Mobile Software Competition Act — designated providers' compliance reports
Information provision

Information provision on structural lock-in in the mobile core (Apple, Google)

PDF · sha256 e29fd80da9b6…5329961c · 361 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Submitted 30 August 2026 through the JFTC web form, receipt number q621u23054. No reply recorded.

30 August 2026
European Commission — Joint Research Centre · European Union
Digital Sovereignty Science for Policy Forum, Brussels, 16 November 2026
Research brief (two pages)

Measuring Provider Dependence as One Dimension of Digital Sovereignty

PDF · sha256 b404ebf4f41a…9e1aa7ce · 248 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Prepared for the Forum enquiry of 22 August 2026, which was accepted; a formal invitation followed on 3 September 2026 and was not taken up. The brief is a research document, not a regulatory submission.

22 August 2026
European Commission · European Union
Targeted consultation "Safeguarding the EU's data sovereignty" (open until 8 September 2026)
Evidence note accompanying a consultation response

Evidence Note: Measuring Structural Provider Dependency

PDF · sha256 2e1b533a56f3…13c9e56c · 518 KB

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Submitted 22 August 2026 with the consultation response. No acknowledgement beyond the submission itself is recorded.

21 July 2026
UK Competition and Markets Authority · United Kingdom
Consultation on a proposed steering conduct requirement for Apple's mobile platform
Consultation response

Response to the CMA's consultation on a proposed steering conduct requirement for Apple's mobile platform

PDF · sha256 e4acb05b46a6…43d3046b · 659 KB · the response as published by the CMA (GOV.UK, PDF) · our page

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Sent 20 July 2026; receipt confirmed 21 July 2026; published by the CMA among the 37 non-confidential responses (CMA update log: "14 August 2026 — Responses published"). The CMA's copy omits the author's contact details from the letterhead and signature block; the text is otherwise identical.

8 April 2026
UK Competition and Markets Authority — Digital Markets Unit · United Kingdom
Call for evidence in the Apple and Google mobile platforms strategic market status investigations
Third-party submission (unsolicited)

Black Hole Index analysis of structural lock-in on the two mobile platforms

No separate document; the submission is reproduced on this page.

Status, as recorded 25 October 2026: Receipt acknowledged by the Digital Markets Unit on 13 April 2026. Not published by the CMA; carries no CMA view.