Press releases

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has published today its findings on issues relating to the valuation of complex and illiquid financial instruments. The report puts forward a set of issues that should be addressed by institutions and accounting and auditing standard setters in order to improve the reliability of the values ascribed to these instruments.<br />CEBS has prepared this in response to a request set out in the October 2007 roadmap of the ECOFIN on the financial market situation. CEBS recommends that institutions and standard setters address the issues included in the report. It is intended to re-assess developments in this area and to liaise on any follow-up measures with other fora, notably CESR and CEIOPS.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors today publishes its analysis of the supervisory implications of the national plans for the stabilization of markets that have been announced by the European Members States until the end of December 2008.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes a summary of the results of its stock-take of banks’ and supervisors’ reactions to the rogue trading loss at Société Générale in January 2008.<br />CEBS has conducted a stock-take with the EEA banking supervisory authorities of how this event affected other banks, their operational risk practices, governance and internal control environment, and the internal models used for calculating capital requirements for operational risk (Advanced Measurement Approaches, AMA).

CEBS is today publishing a paper on the range of practices with respect to various implementation issues relating to the Capital Requirements Directive (Basel II implementation issues) which have specific cross-border relevance.

CEBS today publishes a paper presenting the outcome of an in-depth analysis of delegation of supervisory tasks based on practical experience.

<p>Following the publication in January 2006 of the "Guidelines for Cooperation between Consolidating Supervisor and Host Supervisors", CEBS has been working to improve home-host cooperation and to enhance the functioning of the Colleges of supervisors.</p>

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS), the Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) have today published a joint statement, with their input regarding the latest developments in accounting.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its response to the ECOFIN’s request from 3 June 2008 for a review of ‘the coverage of risks borne by custodians (…) so as to ensure a level playing field while avoiding inconsistencies in the treatment of custodians and double regulation’.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) has published a paper on the "Range of practices on supervisory colleges and home-host cooperation", as well as a template for a "Multilateral Cooperation and Coordination Agreement" ("Template for written agreements"). CEBS believes that these documents will enhance the efficiency and effectiveness of the European supervisory regime under the CRD. In particular, the operational focus of the Template for written agreements is expected to narrow the gap between the high level principles issued by CEBS on supervisory cooperation and day-to-day supervisory practices.

The 3L3 Committees, CESR, CEBS and CEIOPS, published today their joint response to the European Commission’s consultation on improving the supervision of EU financial markets. The joint response also includes in an annex, the three Committees’ sectoral views on the proposals made by the high-level group (“the Group”) on the structure of financial supervision in the EU, chaired by Jacques de Larosière, which were endorsed by the Commission’s Communication of 4 March 2009.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its liquidity identity card (hereafter “liquidity ID”) aiming at providing supervisors of European cross-border banking groups with a single prudential language to enable meaningful exchange of information, in particular within colleges of supervisors.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its implementation guidelines on Article 106(2) (c) and (d) of Directive 2006/48/EC (Capital Requirements Directive) as amended by Directive 2009/111/EC.

The European Supervisory Authorities publish today a joint Discussion Paper (JC/DP/2012/01) on Draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) foreseen by the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR)

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has today published its Guidelines on AMA extensions and changes (EBA/GL/2012/1). The aim is to harmonise processes regarding the supervisory approval of such changes and to assist institutions using the Advanced Measurement Approach (AMA) to further develop their AMA models.

CEBS today publishes an amendment to the Guidelines on Common Reporting (COREP) on the standardisation of remittance dates and reporting frequencies for COREP reporting in the European Union. The Guidelines on COREP were developed by CEBS during 2004-2005 in order to harmonize reporting of the capital ratio in accordance with the Capital Requirements Directive.