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EBA publishes report on progress made on its roadmap to repair IRB models

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a progress report on the roadmap set out in 2016 to repair internal models used to calculate own funds requirements for credit risk under the Internal Ratings Based (IRB) approach. The roadmap aims to address the concerns about undue variability of own funds requirements and to restore trust in IRB models by ensuring comparability of the estimates of risk parameters, while retaining their risk sensitivity. This report marks the finalisation of...

09/07/2019

EBA assesses impact of FinTech on payment institutions' and e-money institutions' business models

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a thematic Report on the impact of FinTech on payment institutions’ (PIs) and electronic money institutions’ (EMIs) business models. This Report points out the EBA’s key observations on PIs’ and EMIs’ strategies and business model changes, in particular focusing on the current trends and drivers, the different approaches to FinTech, including their interaction with BigTech firms, and the level of implementation of innovative technologies. The ...

08/07/2019

EBA publishes report on implementation of the its Guidelines on Product Oversight and Governance (POG) arrangements

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its first report on the way industry has implemented the EBA requirements aimed at protecting consumers across the European Union. The report focuses on the Guidelines on Product Oversight and Governance Arrangements (POG), which the EBA issued in 2015 to address large-scale retail conduct failure and mis-selling that was observed in the banking sector at the time. The report identifies a number of good and bad practices and outlines the next ...

05/07/2019

Profitability challenges the sector, asset quality still improving but requires constant monitoring

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Risk Dashboard, which summarises the main risks and vulnerabilities in the EU/EEA banking sector. The Risk Dashboard includes for the first time IFRS 9 related data on asset quality and banks’ fair valued positions, as well as information about their sovereign exposures. Together with the Risk Dashboard, the EBA published the results of its Risk Assessment Questionnaire (RAQ), which includes banks’ and market analysts’ expectations for fut...

04/07/2019

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EBA publishes phase 2 of its technical package on reporting framework 2.9

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a new release of the reporting framework 2.9, which includes the validation rules, the DPM data dictionary and XBRL taxonomies. The update reflects the amendments to the Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting related to FINREP and those to the ITS on benchmarking of internal approaches, both published on 16 of July 2019.

21/08/2019 - News
EBA publishes clarifications to the fifth set of issues raised by its Working Group on APIs under PSD2

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today clarifications to a fifth set of issues that had been raised by participants of its Working Group (WG) on APIs under PSD2. The clarifications respond to issues raised on the measurement of response times of the dedicated interface, the machine-readability of the EBA register, reliance on eIDAS certificates and various issues related to the contingency measures, including the identification of third party providers through ‘guest books’, the data that can be accessed and documentation.

14/08/2019 - News
The EBA updates data used for the identification of global systemically important institutions (G-SIIs)

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today 12 indicators and updated the underlying data from the 35 largest institutions in the EU, whose leverage ratio exposure measure exceeds EUR 200 bn. This end-2018 data contributes to the internationally agreed basis on which a smaller subset of banks will be identified as global systemically important institutions (G-SIIs), following the final assessments from the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) and the Financial Stability Board (FSB). The EBA, acting as a central data hub in the disclosure process, will update this data on a yearly basis and will provide a user-friendly platform to aggregate it across the EU.

09/08/2019 - Press releases
EBA publishes the first of three opinions on the implementation of the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an opinion on the implementation of the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD) in the EU. It proposes a number of changes aimed at strengthening depositor protection, enhancing financial stability and improving operational effectiveness. Two other opinions are forthcoming later in 2019.

08/08/2019 - Press releases
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