Press releases

Andrea Enria, Chairperson of the EBA, in his opening remarks at the EBA’s 5th Anniversary Conference, touched on the EBA’s achievements in the last five years and the challenges that still lie ahead for the Authority.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion specifying the general principles and timelines for the implementation of the regulatory review of the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach. The aim of the Opinion is to provide guidance and clarity to both Competent Authorities and institutions on the planned review and its implementation. The Opinion is supported by a Report, which summarises the feedback received from the public consultation on the EBA discussion paper on the future of the IRB approach.

In the context of the forthcoming implementation of the IFRS 9 Financial instruments standard (IFRS 9) in the EU, the European Banking Authority (EBA) is launching an impact assessment of the standard on a sample of approximately 50 institutions across the EU.

As the European Banking Authority (EBA) gets ready to mark its first five years of activities with its conference in London this Friday, Chairperson Andrea Enria explains the conference will be about dialogue with banking stakeholders on achievements and remaining challenges in strengthening the EU banking sector.

The Chairpersons of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – sent a joint letter on cross-selling of financial products to Jonathan Hill, the European Commissioner for Financial Stability, Financial Services and Capital Markets Union.

The Joint Board of Appeal of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs – European Banking Authority, European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority, and European Securities and Markets Authority) published today its decision in an appeal brought by four appellants, Andrus Kluge, Boris Belyaev, Radio Elektroniks OÜ and Timur Dyakov, against a decision of the European Banking Authority (EBA). The Board of Appeal decided it does not have any jurisdiction with respect to the party’s appeal to challenge a decision by the EBA not to commence an investigation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Guidelines on implicit support for securitisation transactions. The objective of the Guidelines is to provide clarity on what constitutes arm’s length conditions and when a transaction is not structured to provide support for securitisations. The consultation runs until 20 April 2016.

On 19 February 2016 from 14:00 to 16:00, the European Banking Authority (EBA) will hold a public hearing on the consultation launched on its draft technical standards on the separation of payment card schemes and processing entities under the Interchange Fee Regulation (IFR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today revised final draft technical standards and Guidelines on the further specification of the indicators of global systemic importance and their disclosure. The need for this revision was prompted by the new data template and some minor changes introduced by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) in January 2015 for the identification of global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The full data template with the detailed specification of the indicator values will now only be incorporated in the EBA Guidelines and will be updated on an annual basis.

The EBA has received a notification from the Bank of Greece, in its capacity as the Resolution Authority, in relation to the application of resolution measures to the Cooperative Bank of Peloponnese Coop Ltd, following the withdrawal of its license.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the content of business reorganisation plans and progress reports, as well as guidelines defining how to assess plans. The work has been developed within the framework established by the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD), which sets procedures for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions, investment firms and related entities across the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on detailed records of financial contracts. These RTS have been developed within the framework established by the EU bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and further specify the minimum set of the information on financial contracts that should be contained in detailed records and the circumstances under which the requirement to maintain such detailed records should be imposed. These standards are part of the EBA's work to implement the BRRD and address the problem of too-big-to-fail banks.

The EBA has received a notification from Banco de Portugal on the completion of the resolution of Banco Espírito Santo through the re-transfer of five senior bonds from Novo Banco to Banco Espírito Santo.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the outcome of its 2015 EU-wide transparency exercise and provided detailed bank-by-bank data on capital positions, risk exposure amounts and asset quality on 105 banks from 21 countries of the European Economic Area (EEA) as part of its ongoing commitment to enhancing transparency in the EU Banking sector. The data, which shows improvements in the resilience of the EU banking sector, is published at the highest level of consolidation, covering around 70% of total EU banking assets for the reference dates of 31 December 2014 and 30 June 2015. By disclosing these fully comparable figures in user friendly formats, the EBA aims to promote greater understanding of capital positions and exposures of the EU banking sector and foster market discipline in the Single Market.

The EBA acknowledges notification from the Portuguese Government and Banco do Portugal with respect to their decision on the the sale and resolution of Banco Internacional do Funchal, S.A (BANIF).