EBA identifies payment fraud, indebtedness and de-risking as key issues affecting consumers in the EU

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the 9th edition of its biennial Consumer Trends Report for 2024/25. The Report has identified payment fraud, indebtedness, and de-risking as the most important issues affecting EU consumers. The Report is based on information provided by the national authorities of the 27 EU Member States, selected national and EU consumer associations, EU industry associations, national ombudsmen, as well as quantitative data from a variety of sources, including for the first time the EBA’s new Retail Risk Indicators, which the EBA publishes separately since 2022 with a view to identify potential consumer harm.

The EBA launches call for papers for its 2025 Policy Research Workshop

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a call for papers in view of its 14th Policy Research Workshop taking place on 18-19 November 2025 and titled “Bridging capital and growth - the role of financial structures and intermediaries”. The deadline for submitting papers is 6 June 2025.

The EBA updates technical standards on the joint decision process for internal model authorisation

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) amending the existing Implementing Regulation on the joint decision process for internal model authorisation under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The revised ITS incorporate changes to the EU legal framework. This final draft amending ITS are part of the first phase of the EBA roadmap for implementing the EU Banking Package.

The EBA consults on draft technical standards setting out the threshold for prudential risk management requirements of central securities depositories providing banking-type ancillary services

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the threshold of activity at which Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) providing ‘banking-type ancillary services’, need to meet certain prudential risk management requirements set out in the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR). The aim of this work is to allow CSDs to do more settlement of foreign currency in commercial bank money without increasing the risk in CSDs or the overall financial system. This consultation runs until 16 June 2025. A public hearing will be held on 13 May.

EBA issues revised list of ITS validation rules

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today issued a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting. The update highlights rules that have been deactivated either due to inaccuracies or because they triggered IT issues. Competent authorities across the EU are informed that data submitted in accordance with these ITS should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules.

The EBA consults on new rules related to the anti- money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism package

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on four draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that will be part of the EBA’s response to the European Commission’s Call for Advice. These technical standards will be central to the EU’s new AML/CFT regime and will shape how institutions and supervisors will comply with their AML/CFT obligations under the new AML/CFT package. The consultation runs until 6 June 2025.

The EBA responds to the European Commission’s partial rejection of its technical standards on authorisation for issuers of asset-referenced tokens

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today issued an Opinion in response to the European Commission’s proposed changes to its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the information to be provided to competent authorities when authorising the offer to the public of asset-referenced tokens or the admission to trade them under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR).

The EBA consults to amend data collection for the 2026 benchmarking exercise

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation to amend the Implementing Regulation on the benchmarking of credit risk, market risk and IFRS9 models for the 2026 exercise. The most significant changes, in the market risk framework, are the new templates for the collection of the alternative internal model approach (AIMA) risk measures under the fundamental review of the trading book (FRTB) and the extension of the scope of the exercise to banks that apply solely the Alternative Standardised Approach (ASA) methodology. For the credit risk framework only minor changes are being proposed. This consultation runs until 26 May 2025.

The EBA finds progress in availability and accessibility of data used to identify and qualify environmental, social and governance risks but data landscape remains incomplete

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Report assessing the availability and accessibility of data related to environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks as well as the feasibility of introducing a standardised methodology for identifying and qualifying credit exposures to such risks. The Report finds that while there have been significant improvements over the recent years on availability and accessibility of data, the ESG data landscape remains incomplete at this stage. Key policy initiatives such as the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) and the supporting European Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRS), as well as further transparency in the methodologies of ESG scores and External Credit Assessment Institutions’ (ECAI) credit risk ratings, are expected to further improve this landscape and mitigate challenges.

The ESAs provide a roadmap towards the designation of CTPPs under DORA

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) are advancing in the implementation of the pan-European oversight framework of critical ICT third-party service providers (CTPPs) with the objective to designate the CTPPs and to start the oversight engagement this year.

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