Press releases

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its consultation paper (CP35) on its draft guidelines on the management of operational risk in market-related activities. The consultation is open to all interested parties, including supervised institutions and other market participants.</p>

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. Today, this advice has been sent to the European Commission.

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its Advice on the review of the large exposures regime</p>

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its guidelines on operational risk mitigation techniques following a three-month public consultation period and a public hearing. These guidelines, which build on the provisions of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and CEBS’s Guidelines on the Implementation, Validation and Assessment of AMA and IRB Approaches (Implementation Guidelines – GL10) provide supervisory expectations and clarification on the recognition of risk transfer instruments within the AMA.</p>

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) together with the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions (CEIOPS) are publishing today the joint response of CEBS and the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC ), to the two parallel requests from June 2007, for technical advice from the European Commission (EC) on its recommendations on whether the supervisory arrangements of the US and Swiss supervisory authorities would achieve the objectives of consolidated and supplementary supervision.</p>

In December 2007 the European Commission issued a 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 CRD. CESR and CEBS are requested to deliver its technical advice by end-July 2008. In order to prepare this advice, CESR and CEBS are inviting all interested parties to submit their views regarding the Call for Advice from the Commission and especially in relation to the questions contained in its annex.

The European Central Bank (ECB) and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) have today published a new classification system aimed at reducing over time the reporting burden placed on entities that are required to deliver data to the Eurosystem as well as to supervisory authorities.

<p>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.</p>

<p>CEBS has made a review of the progress made on the basis of the measures taken with respect to the issues raised in its June 2008 Report on issues relating to the valuation of complex and illiquid financial instruments and concludes that there are still more improvements to be made.</p>

The Commission has asked the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC) - the joint working committee of the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) - to provide technical advice with regard to the sectoral rules on eligible capital and the analysis of the consequences for supervision of financial conglomerates.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) are publishing today a comparison of the capital instruments that are eligible for prudential purposes in the application of the European banking, insurance and securities regulation. This cross-sectoral comparison has been produced by the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC) at the request of the European Financial Conglomerates Committee. This report was sent to the Commission on 3 January 2007.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.

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) are publishing today a comparison of the capital instruments that are eligible for prudential purposes in the application of the European banking, insurance and securities regulation.</p>

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is today publishing a new release of the Guidelines on Financial Reporting (FINREP). These guidelines are intended to be used by credit institutions when preparing prudential reports to be sent to any European Union Supervisory Authority according to the IAS/IFRS endorsed by the European Commission.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is publishing today the final set of guidelines on outsourcing of credit institutions' business activities. The aim of the CEBS guidelines is to promote an approriate level of convergence in supervisory approaches to outsourcing. The proposed guidelines are based on current supervisory and market practices and also take into account international and European developments in the field outsourcing.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is today publishing a new release of the Guidelines on Common Reporting (COREP). These guidelines are intended to be used by credit institutions and investment firms when preparing prudential reports to be sent to any European Union Supervisory Authority according to the new capital framework established in the new capital regulation.