Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on draft Guidelines on product oversight and governance arrangements for retail banking products. The guidelines, which apply to both manufacturers and distributors of retail banking products, aim at ensuring that the interests, objectives and characteristics of consumers are taken into account when such products are designed and brought to market. The consultation will run until 10 February 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on valuation in recovery and resolution. These draft RTS aim to provide a common structure to decisions made by resolution authorities and independent valuers and to promote a consistent application of methodologies for such valuations across the EU. The consultation runs until 6 February 2015.

ESAs published today a Joint Letter to the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) on the ESAs’ budget 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on Guidelines on national provisional lists of the most representative services linked to a payment account and subject to a fee. The EU Payment Accounts Directive requires the EBA to develop standardised terminology and information documents related to payment accounts for consumers across the EU. As a first step, the EBA has developed Guidelines to help Competent Authorities identify the most representative services linked to a payment account and subject to a fee in their jurisdictions. The consultation will run until 9 January 2015. The technical standards that will subsequently be developed will allow EU consumers to make better informed decisions when choosing their payment accounts.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under Article 55(3) of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). These RTS support the effective application of the write-down and conversion powers in relation to liabilities governed by the law of a third country. The consultation is part of the EBA’s work to promote the effective application of recovery and resolution powers to banks and banking groups with a cross-border presence and to foster convergence of practices between relevant authorities and institutions across the EU. The consultation runs until 5 February 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on materiality threshold of past due credit obligations. The EBA proposes a series of new conditions against which National Supervisory Authorities (NSAs) should set a materiality threshold for past due credit obligations. The consultation runs until 31 January 2015.

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA and EIOPA - ESAs) published today an addendum to the joint consultation on the mapping of the credit assessments to risk weights of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs). The addendum provides further details on the application of the rules proposed in the draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) in relation to particular ECAIs and is to be considered as an extension of the consultation process. The consultation period will be reopened until 30 November 2014 in order to collect additional comments.

The EBA released a clarification statement following Andrea Enria's address at the FRSN conference in Berlin on "The Comprehensive Assessment, the ECB’s New Role and Limits of a Common Supervision in the EU".

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an opinion addressed to the European Commission on the appropriateness of the rules governing the levels of application of prudential requirements for credit and investment institutions (Pillar 1 and 2), in particular the exemption regime.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has adopted a formal recommendation addressed to the Bulgarian National Bank (BNB) and the Bulgarian Deposit Insurance Fund (BDIF) notifying that they are breaching Article 1(3)(i) and Article 10 of Directive 94/19/EC (the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive - DGSD). The EBA also informs the two national authorities of the actions that they need to follow in order to comply with their obligations under EU legislation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on the implementation of its Guidelines on the security of internet payments. These Guidelines are the first output of the joint work undertaken by the EBA and the European Central Bank (ECB) on the security of payment services. The consultation will run until 14 November 2014.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published today its bi-annual report on risks and vulnerabilities in the European Union's (EU) financial system. The report identifies a number of risks to financial stability in the EU, including prolonged weak economic growth in an environment characterised by high indebtedness, intensified search for yield in a protracted low interest rate environment, and uncertainties in global emerging market economies. The report also highlights risks related to conduct of business and Information Technologies (IT).

The EBA has today published the responses received from the Bulgarian authorities in relation to the cases of Corporate Commercial Bank AD (KTB) and Commercial Bank Victoria EAD (VCB). As the requirements of the recommendation adopted by the EBA have not been implemented, the EBA has formally notified the European Commission in accordance with Article 17(4) of Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published the results of the 2014 EU-wide stress test. As a fundamental step in the on-going repair process of the EU banking sector, the EU-wide stress test allows assessing the resilience of banks to adverse economic developments, as well as understanding any remaining vulnerabilities. By disclosing up to 12,000 data points per bank, the EBA is providing unprecedented transparency into EU banks’ balance sheets, an essential condition to maintain strong market discipline and increase investors’ confidence in the EU banking sector.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the results of the 2014 EU-wide stress test of 123 banks. The aim of the stress test is to assess the resilience of EU banks to adverse economic developments, so as to understand remaining vulnerabilities, complete the repair of the EU banking sector and increase confidence. On average, EU banks’ common equity ratio (CET1) drops by 260 basis points, from 11.1% at the start of the exercise, after the asset quality reviews’ (AQRs) adjustment, to 8.5% after the stress. By disclosing these results, the EBA is providing unparalleled transparency into EU banks’ balance sheets, with up to 12,000 data points per bank, an essential step towards enhancing market discipline in the EU.