Press releases

The supervisory reporting templates, including those on liquidity, contained in the Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting drafted by the European Banking Authority (EBA), adopted by the European Commission (EC) on 16 April 2014 and due to be published soon in the EU Official Journal, are a correct legal transposition of the relevant provisions laid down in the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).

The EBA launches today a consultation on three Guidelines related to the information that institutions in the EU banking sector should disclose under Part Eight of the Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (Capital Requirements Regulation - CRR). These Guidelines have been merged into one single document and cover how institutions should apply materiality, proprietary and confidentiality in relation to the disclosure requirements, as well as how they should assess the frequency of their disclosures. This work will enhance consistency in disclosure practices across the EU and are part of the work of the EBA aimed at ensuring transparency in the EU banking sector. The consultation runs until 13 September 2014.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a report providing a detailed analysis on remuneration practices across a sample of EU banks. The report, based on data collected on a consolidated basis from 2010 to 2012, sets benchmarks for different aspects of remuneration policies, and provides additional insight into the previously published data on “high earners” (staff earning EUR one million or more per year). Overall, the report shows an increasing trend in the remuneration paid to “risk takers”, as well as a material shift from variable to fixed remuneration.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) assessing the criteria that competent authorities need to consider before granting institutions permission to use advanced measurement approaches (AMA) for calculating their capital requirements for operational risk. These RTS will be part of the Single Rulebook aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation in the banking sector in the European Union. The consultation runs until 12 September 2014.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a second report on the consistency of risk weighted assets (RWAs) in the residential mortgage portfolio. The report, which is part of a wider ongoing EBA work on comparability of RWAs, illustrates the findings of a so called “drill-down analysis”, an investigation on the extent to which the most commonly used risk drivers influence the variability in risk weights. Overall, the analysis confirmed that risk parameters, such as loan to value, are drivers of RWAs. However, there are differences in how the banks reflect such drivers in RWAs.

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a third version of the classification system that links their respective reporting frameworks. This common system, which will support EU banks in their reporting exercise to both the EBA and the ECB, supersedes the second version published in March 2012 and aims at providing a better understanding of the links between the two different reporting frameworks of the ECB and the EBA, while creating synergies between datasets that were originally designed for different purposes.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its annual report on consumer trends, giving an overview of the analysis carried out in the area of consumer protection and financial innovation. The report identifies the consumer issues that may arise, or have arisen, from these trends, and describes the approaches the EBA will be taking in 2014 to address them.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) is organising the second Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day on 4 June 2014 in London. The event will bring together consumers, regulators and industry participants to discuss consumer protection-related issues in the financial services area in the European Union.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today the interactive Single Rulebook, an on-line tool designed to facilitate navigation through the single set of harmonised prudential rules in the EU banking sector. The Single Rulebook aims at ensuring consistent application of the regulatory banking framework across the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched the interactive Single Rulebook, an on-line tool designed to facilitate navigation through the single set of harmonised prudential rules in the EU banking sector. The Single Rulebook aims at ensuring consistent application of the regulatory banking framework across the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has introduced some important changes to the Single Rulebook Q&A tool. The major changes focus on the stricter prioritisation of incoming questions, more stringent criteria for submitting questions, grouping of questions which raise related issues, and a new publication policy for questions and answers.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the methodology for identifying Global Systemically Important Institutions (G-SIIs), final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on special disclosure rules applicable to G-SIIs, and final guidelines on special disclosure rules for large institutions. The identification of G-SIIs in the EU is aligned with the framework established by the Financial Stability Board (FSB) and developed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS). These standards and guidelines will be part of the EU Single Rulebook in banking and aim at enhancing regulatory harmonisation and disclosure across the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a list of capital instruments across the EU that national supervisory authorities have classified as Common Equity Tier 1. This list, which was compiled in accordance with Article 26 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), is based on the information received from the 28 national competent authorities across the EU and includes all the CET1 instruments issued by institutions and evaluated as compliant by the national supervisory authorities. The list will be maintained and updated on a regular basis.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) is organising the second Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day on 4 June 2014 in London. The event will bring together consumers, regulators and industry participants to discuss consumer protection-related issues in the financial services area in the European Union.

The EBA issues the 2013 edition of its Annual Report, taking stock of its first three years of activities and focusing on tasks and achievements for 2013. The past year has been characterised by difficult market conditions for the EU banking sector and by a complex process of institutional and regulatory repair. The Annual Report illustrates the progress achieved by the EBA towards a more stable banking and financial sector in the European Union.