Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its third Report on the functioning of anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) colleges. The Report finds that competent authorities had taken important steps to improve the functioning of AML/CFT colleges. Nevertheless, many colleges had not reached full maturity. The Report highlights good practices that will be useful for competent authorities to further improve the effectiveness of AML/CFT colleges and of supervisory outcomes.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report on its mystery shopping exercise into personal loans and payment accounts. The exercise confirmed that mystery shopping is a tool that adds immense value to the supervision of national competent authorities and is complementary to other more conventional tools or approaches. It delivers first-hand information about, and insight into, the conduct of financial Institutions towards consumers visiting a branch or using a digital channel.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today updated its roadmap for the implementation of internal ratings based (IRB) model requirements to limit compliance costs for institutions. The EBA also published its final supervisory handbook for the validation of internal ratings based (IRB) rating systems to clarify the role of the validation function as part of corporate governance.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Decision to run an ad-hoc data collection of institutions’ IRRBB data. This data collection will provide competent authorities and the EBA with timely and necessary data and tools to monitor risks arising from interest rate changes and the implementation of the IRRBB scrutiny plan. The ad-hoc collection follows a proportionate approach, as it will apply only to those institutions that are already providing IRRBB data in the context of the QIS exercise and include the same templates that these institutions will have to report once the final ITS on IRRBB reporting starts applying.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a follow-up Report presenting the feedback received during the consultation on machine learning (ML) used in the context of internal ratings-based (IRB) models. This follow-up Report summarises the main conclusions from the consultation and provides an overview of the current use cases of ML techniques for IRB models.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today a binding mediation decision between two deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs), the Spanish Deposit Guarantee Fund for Credit Institutions and the Belgian Deposit Guarantee Fund for Financial Services. The decision stipulates that the Belgian DGS should transfer to the Spanish DGS the last contribution it has received from a credit institution that had changed its DGS affiliation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to identify extraordinary circumstances of market disruption, permitting to waive certain requirements for the calculation of own funds requirements for market risk on the basis of internal models. The consultation runs until 3 November 2023.

The Joint Board of Appeal (“The Board”) of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) unanimously decided that the appeal brought by Euroins Insurance Group AD (“Euroins”) against the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) is inadmissible. The appeal was brought in relation to an EIOPA Report assessing the valuation of Euroins’ technical provisions.

With a view to fostering convergence in resolution practices, the European Banking Authority (EBA) today published for the first time a Report which monitors the progress made by resolution authorities in embedding the key topics identified in the EBA’s 2022 European Resolution Examination Programme (EREP) into their respective priorities and resolution colleges in 2022. The Report observes that, overall, resolution authorities incorporated the work priorities set by the EBA, with MREL monitoring being a key focus. The EREP priorities set for 2024 mainly confirmed the areas of focus set for 2023 although with updated specific elements and extension of the operationalisation of the bail-in tool to cover the operationalisation of the resolution strategy more generally.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated guidance on how to compile and report to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) the Financial Soundness Indicators (FSI) based on EBA data. FSIs provide insight into the financial health and soundness of countries’ financial institutions as well as corporate and household sectors, thus supporting the economic and financial stability analysis.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on amendments to its Guidelines on the specification and disclosure of systemic importance indicators. The proposed changes aim primarily at updating the annex which replicates the data template issued by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on a yearly basis. The consultation runs until 1 September 2023.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published today its final ITS on supervisory reporting with respect to IRRBB. The amended final draft ITS equip supervisors with the appropriate data to monitor risks arising from interest rates’ changes.   In addition, they aim at providing quality data to supervisors to monitor institutions’ IRBB risk and the implementation of the policy package published by the EBA in October 2022. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published the results of its 2023 EU-wide stress test, which involved 70 banks from 16 EU and EEA countries, covering 75% of the EU banking sector assets. This stress test allows supervisors to assess the resilience of EU banks over a three-year horizon under both a baseline and an adverse scenario. The adverse scenario is characterised by severe negative shocks to economic growth, higher unemployment combined with higher interest rates and credit spreads. In terms of GDP decline, the 2023 adverse scenario is the most severe used in the EU wide stress up to now. The individual bank results promote market discipline and are used as part of the EU supervisory decision-making process.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published findings of an ad-hoc analysis of unrealised losses on debt securities held at amortised cost in EU banks. This targeted analysis is part of the ongoing regular risk monitoring of the EU banking sector conducted by the EBA in collaboration with Competent Authorities.

​​​​​​​The European Banking Authority (EBA), jointly with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), today published a Report assessing the implementation of the Shareholder Rights Directive 2 (SRD2). This assessment, carried out in response to a European Commission’s request, identifies areas for further progress and provides detailed suggestions for policy action, in relation to the Directive’s effectiveness, difficulties in practical application and the appropriateness of the scope of application.