Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion in response to the EU Commission’s amendments relating to the draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the supervisory outlier tests (SOT) specifying technical aspects of the revised framework on interest rate risks for banking book (IRRBB) positions. The EBA confirms its close scrutiny on the implementation of the IRRBB regulatory products and more generally on the impact of the evolving interest rates on the management of IRRBB by EU institutions and on other related prudential aspects.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) have been working jointly with Eurofiling to produce a revised version of the taxonomy architecture in order to implement the improvements introduced by data point model (DPM) Refit to data point modelling, such as the historisation of certain concepts. The revisions also simplify the structure by removing unnecessary artefacts, such as normative codes for taxonomy frameworks.

​​​​​​​The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) today issued their Spring 2023 Joint Committee Report on risks and vulnerabilities in the EU financial system. While noting that EU financial markets remained broadly stable despite the challenging macro environment and recent market pressure in the banking sector, the three Authorities are calling on national supervisors, financial institutions and market participants to remain vigilant in the face of mounting risks.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the determination by originator institutions of the exposure value of synthetic excess spread (SES). These draft RTS clarify the calculation of the components that should be included in this exposure value taking into account the relevant losses expected to be covered by SES.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on Guidelines on the benchmarking of diversity practices including diversity policies and gender pay gap under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and the Investment Firms Directive (IFD). The EBA has been collecting data on diversity since 2015 based on information requests. The issuance of these Guidelines will lead to a higher level of transparency regarding the EBA’s work on the topic of diversity and gender equality and will help improve the quality of the collected data as well as the awareness of all stakeholders on these topics. The consultation runs until 24 July 2023.

​The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the 8th edition of its Consumer Trends Report for 2022/23, which summarises trends observed for the products and services under the EBA’s consumer protection mandate. The Report has also identified two issues facing consumers in the EU: fraud in retail payments and over-indebtedness and arrears. These issues will shape the EBA’s consumer protection priorities over the next two years.  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated list of institutions, which have a reporting obligation for the purpose of the 2023 EU supervisory benchmarking exercise. The EBA will be conducting the 2023 benchmarking exercise on a sample of 117 institutions from 16 countries across the EU and the European Economic Area. The EBA runs this exercise leveraging on established data collection procedures and formats of regular supervisory reporting and assists Competent Authorities in assessing the quality of internal approaches used to calculate risk weighted exposure amounts.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on the criteria related to simplicity, standardisation and transparency and additional specific criteria for on-balance-sheet securitisations (so-called STS criteria). These Guidelines will ensure a harmonised interpretation of these STS criteria, in alignment with the EBA Guidelines for traditional securitisations. The consultation runs until 7 July 2023.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) adopted the European Union Agencies network charter on diversity and inclusion thus reinforcing its commitment to take concrete actions to promote equal treatment of and opportunities for its staff.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on the assessment of adequate knowledge and experience of the management or administrative organ of credit servicers, as a whole, under the Non-Performing Loans Directive. The Guidelines aim at ensuring that the organs are suitable to conduct the business of the credit servicer in a competent and responsible manner. The consultation runs until 19 July 2023.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on the draft Guidelines on resubmission of historical data under the EBA reporting framework. The objective of the draft guidelines is to provide a common approach to the resubmission by the financial institutions of historical data to the competent and resolution authorities in case there are errors, inaccuracies or other changes in the data reported in accordance with the supervisory and resolution reporting framework developed by the EBA. The consultation runs until 31 July 2023.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) have today published a Consultation Paper with amendments to the Delegated Regulation of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a call for papers in view of its 12th Policy Research Workshop taking place on 7-8 November 2023 and titled “Interest rate and Liquidity Risk Management, Regulation and the Macro-economic environment”. The deadline for submitting papers is 7 July 2023.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its quarterly Risk Dashboard (RDB) together with the first edition of the RDB on minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). Volatility in EU/EEA banks’ equity and debt has been strongly affected by Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) and Credit Suisse related events, although direct exposures of EU/EEA banks towards these banks were limited according to indications from supervisory reporting as of Q4 2022. Banks’ capital and liquidity ratios remain strong and profitability continues to increase.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today new Guidelines to ensure that customers have access to the financial services they need to fully participate in society and that they are not denied this access on unsubstantiated Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) grounds or without valid reason. These Guidelines will contribute to foster a common understanding by institutions and AML/CFT supervisors of effective money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risk management practices in situations where access by customers to financial products and services should be safeguarded, in particular for the most vulnerable ones.