Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) today published a Joint Report on recent developments in crypto-assets, analysing decentralised finance (DeFi) and crypto lending, borrowing and staking. This publication is the EBA and ESMA’s contribution to the European Commission’s report to the European Parliament and Council under Article 142 of the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCAR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on its draft Guidelines on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) scenario analysis. The draft Guidelines set out expectations for institutions when adopting forward-looking approaches and incorporating the use of scenario analysis as part of their management framework to test institutions’ financial and business model resilience to the negative impacts of ESG factors. They complement the EBA Guidelines on the management of ESG risks, published on 9 January this year. The consultation runs until 16 April 2025.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Guidelines on the management of Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks. The Guidelines set out requirements for institutions for the identification, measurement, management and monitoring of ESG risks, including through plans aimed at ensuring their resilience in the short, medium and long term.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Consultation Paper on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to specify the technical elements necessary for institutions to calculate and aggregate crypto-asset exposures in relation to the prudential treatment of such exposures. These RTS will address implementation aspects and ensure harmonisation of the capital requirements on crypto-assets exposures by institutions across the EU.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) today kicked off a joint recruitment process for Heads of Unit (AD9) in the Joint Oversight team that was set up to carry out the oversight of the Information and Communication Technology Critical Third-Party Providers (CTPPs) under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a response to the letter received from a law firm on 18 June 2024, regarding the intention of Banque Fédérative du Crédit Mutuel (BFCM), based in France, to keep some legacy instruments in its balance sheet without any regulatory value.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting, highlighting those, which have been deactivated either for incorrectness or for triggering IT problems. Competent Authorities throughout the EU are informed that data submitted in accordance with these ITS should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published the final technical package for version 4.0 of its reporting framework, which will apply as of the first half of 2025. The package marks the transition to the new Data Point Model (DPM) semantic glossary and introduces the enhanced capabilities of the DPM 2.0 model.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Handbook on independent valuers for resolution purposes. The Handbook enhances convergence by providing best practices, high-quality methodologies and processes for the selection and appointment of independent valuers for resolution purposes, as well as examples on the application of these methodologies under some scenarios.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Dashboard on high earners for 2023. The analysis shows a slight increase in the number of individuals working for EU banks and decrease for investment firms who have received a remuneration of more than EUR 1 million.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Q3 2024 Risk Dashboard (RDB), which discloses aggregated statistical information for the largest EU/EEA institutions.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Guidelines on reporting requirements under the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR) to ensure that Competent Authorities receive sufficient comparable information to supervise compliance of issuers with MiCAR requirements and provide the EBA with the information necessary to conduct the significance assessment under MiCAR.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the conditions for determining whether an instrument attracting residual risk acts as a hedge. These RTS are part of the Phase 1 deliverables of the EBA roadmap on the implementation of the EU banking package in the area of market risk.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) published today a summary report with the key findings from the 2024 Dry Run exercise on reporting the registers of information under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). The conclusions and lessons learnt as well as individual data quality feedback provided to financial entities during the exercise will aid preparations for the official reporting starting in 2025.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a no action letter stating that competent authorities (CAs) should not prioritise any supervisory or enforcement action in relation to the processing of applications for initial margin (IM) model authorisation received as a result of the entry into force of EMIR 3. The no action letter, developed in cooperation with the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) and the European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), applies until key deliverables mandated under EMIR 3 become applicable.