Press releases

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) organised a public hearing open to all interested parties on ‘towards further convergence on own funds in Europe’ on 11 June 2007 in London. The objective of the event was to hear about the range of concerns the current definition of own funds in the EU, and especially Tier 1 hybrid capital instruments, causes for market participants and their views on what a more consistent definition would look like.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is publishing today the approved amendments to the Guidelines on Financial Reporting (FINREP) which were submitted for public consultation on 20 April 2007. (CP06rev) During the consultation period, CEBS has received a number of comments from industry participants which have improved the quality and the accuracy of the proposals. (CP06rev_responses). CEBS welcomes the constructive contributions made by respondents and is open to continuing the dialogue with the industry to improve the Guidelines along those lines. CEBS will monitor future developments in the standards to check whether they have an impact on the current version of the Guidelines.

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its “Compendium of supplementary guidelines on implementation issues of operational risk” (the Compendium) and a feedback document following a three-month consultation period on CP21 and a related public hearing.</p>

<p>CEBS has today submitted its comments on the European Commission's consultation document on the adoption of International Standards on Auditing (ISAs) in the EU.</p>

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) are publishing today a consultation paper (CP 3L3 08 02) regarding the Joint Call for Technical Advice related to the review under Articles 65(3)(a), (b) and (d) of MiFID and Article 48(2) of the Capital Adequacy Directive (CAD III) issued by the European Commission in December 2007.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) are organising a second public hearing on commodities on 4 September 2008 at the CEBS premises in London.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its response to the European Commission's Call for Technical Advice (No. 10) on the reduction of options and national discretions in the Capital Requirements Directive.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today opens a public consultation based on a revised and expanded version of its first consultation paper on the application of the Supervisory Review Process*. The current consultation period will run for four months, until 21 October 2005

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) are publishing today a report on the possible impact of the differences in the definition of capital instruments provided for by the European banking, insurance and securities regulation, for the supervision of a conglomerate. This assessment has been produced by the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC) in response to the Commission’s call for advice on sectoral rules on eligible capital and analysis of the consequences for supervision of financial conglomerates. The report follows the first report on the cross-sectoral comparison of the sectoral rules for the eligibility of capital instruments in the regulatory capital published in January 2007.

CEBS has received a call for advice from the European Commission on prudential treatment of commodities business. In order to respond and consult with a sufficiently broad spectrum of firms of all sizes, CEBS has published a questionnaire on current industry practices and thinking in relation to the measurement and management of commodity risk.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is publishing the final technical guidelines on application of the supervisory review process in relation to concentration risk under Pillar 2.

The EBA published today a draft Data Point Model (DPM) based on its draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting requirements for institutions (Consultation papers CP 50 published on 20 December 2011 and CP 51 published on 13 February 2012). Interest parties are invited to provide comments on the DPM by 11 June 2012.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its high level principles for risk management. These principles should be considered both by institutions (as part of the ICAAP) and supervisors (as part of the SREP) within the supervisory review framework under Pillar 2.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) together with the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) are publishing today recommendations to address the consequences of the differences in sectoral rules on the calculation of own funds of financial conglomerates. These recommendations have been produced by the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC) at the request of the European Financial Conglomerates Committee. The recommendations are the third and last part of the advice on the cross-sectoral comparison of the sectoral rules for the eligibility of capital instruments in the regulatory capital. <br />The recommendations in this advice focus on the four main differences that were gathered during the analysis: the treatment of hybrids, revaluation reserves/latent gains, deduction of holdings and the differences in consolidation approaches and methods foreseen by the Financial Conglomerates Directive.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has today published its revised guidelines on the recognition of External Credit Assessment Institutions.