Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft  Guidelines addressed to resolution authorities for the publication of their approach to implementing the bail-in tool. The Guidelines aim to ensure that a minimum level of harmonised information is made public with regard to the mechanics underpinning the execution of the bail-in tool. The consultation runs until 7 September 2022. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today phase 2 of version 3.2 of its reporting framework. The technical package supports the implementation of the updated reporting framework by providing standard specifications and includes the validation rules, the Data Point Model (DPM) and the XBRL taxonomies for version 3.2.

​​​​​​​The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published a statement providing clarifications on the draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) issued under the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR), which include the financial product disclosures under the Taxonomy Regulation.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) published a joint Report, which provides a comprehensive analysis on the completeness, adequacy and uniformity of the applicable laws and practices on the withdrawal of license for serious breaches of the rules on anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT).  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) will be launching its annual 2022 EU-wide Transparency exercise in September and expects to release the information on banks’ exposures and asset quality at the beginning of December, along with the EBA Risk Assessment Report. The exercise will cover the figures from the second half of 2021 and the first half of 2022.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated mapping between quantitative disclosure data points and the relevant supervisory reporting data points. The mapping is part of the EBA’s overall objective to make the reporting and disclosure process more efficient and less costly for banks and aims at facilitating institutions’ compliance with disclosure requirements and improving the consistency and quality of the information disclosed. The updated mapping applies to the reporting framework 3.0 and the Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on institutions’ Pillar 3 public disclosures.  

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the criteria to identify shadow banking entities for the purposes of reporting large exposures. The final draft RTS clarify that entities carrying out banking activities or services and which have been authorised and supervised in accordance with the EU prudential framework, shall not be considered as shadow banking entities.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has adopted a decision on supervisory reporting for EU parent undertaking (IPU) threshold monitoring for those entities belonging to third country groups, including third-country branches.  Competent authorities shall report to the EBA information on the total value assets held by these entities within the scope of their jurisdiction in the format specified in the Annexes to the Decision.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published the conclusion of its peer review of how prudential and consumer protection authorities supervise the management of non-performing exposures (NPE) by institutions and have implemented the EBA Guidelines on the management of NPE. The analysis suggests that the competent authorities across the EU have applied a risk-based approach to the supervision of NPE management. The EBA has not identified any significant concerns regarding the supervision practices but makes some general recommendations for further improvements.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on the draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) specifying the requirements for the information that sellers of non-performing loans (NPL) shall provide to prospective buyers, seeking to improve the functioning of NPL secondary markets. The objective of the draft ITS is to provide a common standard for the NPL transactions across the EU enabling cross-country comparison and thus reducing information asymmetries between the sellers and buyers of NPL.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the information that crowdfunding service providers shall provide to investors on the calculation of credit scores and prices of crowdfunding offers. The final draft RTS also specify a minimum set of common standards with regards to information to be considered in credit risk assessment and loan valuation and the underlying policies and governance arrangements.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its annual Report on convergence of supervisory practices for 2021. Competent Authorities made progress in the implementation of the EBA Guidelines on supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP). The Report also reflects consistent implementation into their supervisory practices of the key supervisory priorities for 2021. However, the Report sets expectations for additional efforts from Competent Authorities on topics such as ICT risks, namely cyber risk and business model challenges and the respective digital transformation. In addition, the Report highlights the need for more harmonised practices in the determination of capital add-ons.

Following the request from the EU Commission, the European Banking Authority (EBA) has developed a template for the annual reporting of information on deposits subject to the Russia and the Belarus Economic Sanctions Regulations. The EBA is making the template available for voluntary use by the relevant national competent authorities and by the EU Commission, with the aim to promote a convergent approach and to reduce any associated reporting costs, especially for cross-border banks.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) issued today a joint supervisory statement regarding the ‘What is this product?’ section of the key information document (KID) for packaged retail and insurance-based investment products (PRIIPs). The expectations put forward in the supervisory statement aim at improving the quality of descriptions provided by PRIIPs manufacturers and thereby contribute to better protection of retail investors. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an update to its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) which specify the data collection for the supervisory benchmarking exercise of 2023 in relation to the internal approaches used in market and credit risk and IFRS9 accounting. The updated ITS include all benchmarking portfolios and metrics that will be used for the 2023 exercise. The benchmarking exercise is an essential supervisory tool to monitor and enhance the quality of internal models, which are relevant for the assessment of the institution’s capital adequacy.