Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on detailed records of financial contracts of institutions or relevant entities. These RTS have 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 Single Market. These standards aim to guarantee appropriate convergence in record keeping across the EU, whilst also ensuring that differences in institutions or relevant entities are taken into account. This consultation runs until 6 June 2015.

The EBA acknowledges notification from the Austrian Financial Market Authority (Finanzmarktaufsicht, FMA) with respect to its decision on Heta Asset Resolution AG.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) announced today that significant potential concentration problems in Sweden justify the application of a partial waiver on covered bonds. The opinion is addressed to the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority (Finansinspektionen) and follows their notification that they intend to implement a partial waiver on the eligibility of covered bonds in relation to risk weight preferential treatment. The verdict comes after a review of the Swedish covered bonds market and concerns the application of Article 129 (1) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a discussion paper on the regulatory measures needed to ensure a robust and clear framework for Internal Ratings Based (IRB) models. The discussion paper seeks stakeholders’ feedback on both how to implement the necessary measures in a consistent way and how to bring forward future changes to the current approach. In addition, an overview of the regulatory measures that are under way is provided. The consultation runs until 5 May 2015.

<p>The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a three-month public consultation on its Guidelines on sound remuneration policies. These draft Guidelines set out the governance process for implementing sound remuneration policies across the EU, as well as the specific criteria for mapping all remuneration components into either fixed or variable pay. Guidance is also provided on the application of deferral arrangements and the pay-out instruments ensuring that variable remuneration is aligned with an institution’s long-term risks and that any ex-post risk adjustments can be applied as appropriate.</p>

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its seventh report of the Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise, run in parallel with the one conducted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at a global level, allows the gathering of aggregate results on capital and liquidity ratios- including liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) and net stable funding ratio (NSFR)- and leverage ratio (LR) for banks in the European Union (EU).

In its meeting on 24 February 2015, the Board of Supervisors of the European Banking Authority (EBA) decided not to carry out an EU-wide stress test in 2015 and to start preparing for the next exercise in 2016. Instead of a stress test, in 2015, the EBA will be running a transparency exercise in line with the one conducted in 2013, which will provide detailed data on EU banks’ balance sheets and portfolios. This decision has been communicated to the European Parliament, the Council and the Commission.

In an opinion issued on 26 February 2015, the European Banking Authority (EBA) recommended that EU legislators clarify the applicability of existing EU law to lending-based crowdfunding, so as to ensure that all participants can have confidence in this new market segment. The EBA opinion, which is addressed to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council, looked into lending-based crowdfunding across the EU, identified a series of risks and evaluated how they can be addressed in the EU legislative framework.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a new XBRL taxonomy to be used by competent authorities for remittance of data under the EBA Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting. The new taxonomy will have as reference date 30 June 2015 onwards and will be used for the first reports on additional liquidity monitoring metrics and supervisory benchmarking. The new taxonomy presents the data items, business concepts, relations, visualisations and validation rules described by the EBA Data Point Model (DPM) which are contained in the ITS on supervisory reporting and in the EBA Guidelines on definitions and templates on funding plans.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on prudential requirements for central securities depositories (CSDs). These RTS have been developed within the framework established by the Regulation on settlement and Central Securities Depositories (CSD-R), which aims to increase the safety and efficiency of securities settlement and settlement infrastructures. The consultation runs until 27 April 2015.

In an opinion issued today, the European Banking Authority (EBA) recommended that EU legislators clarify the applicability of existing EU law to lending-based crowdfunding, so as to ensure that all participants can have confidence in this new market segment. The EBA opinion, which is addressed to the European Commission, the European Parliament and the EU Council, looked into lending-based crowdfunding across the EU, identified a series of risks and evaluated how they can be addressed in the EU legislative framework.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on notifications and notice of suspension. These RTS have been developed within the framework established by the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) and aim at harmonising the process and content of notifications and notice of suspension arising from a determination that a firm is failing or likely to fail and the subsequent resolution actions. The consultation runs until 20 March 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on procedures, forms and templates for resolution planning. These ITS have 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. This consultation runs until 14 April 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Opinion on the review of the appropriateness of the definition of ‘eligible capital’, in response to a call for advice received from the European Commission in December 2013. On the basis of information gathered during the first year of application of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), the EBA provides its preliminary views which are relevant for the large exposures framework, as well as for investment firms and qualifying holdings.

The inclusion of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD) into the EBA’s Interactive Single Rulebook tool will allow on-line users to review all the EBA’s Technical Standards, Guidelines and Q&As related to the BRRD by browsing the Directive article by article. What is more, with the inclusion of the BRRD in the EBA Q&A tool, users will now also be able to submit questions they may have in relation to the application of the BRRD.