Press releases

​​​​​​​The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its annual Report on minimum requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL). The Report shows progress in closing MREL shortfalls, as of December 2020, which was mostly driven by largest institutions while smaller institutions lagged somewhat behind.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – published today its 2021 Annual Report, providing a detailed account of its joint work completed over the past year.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) issued today their first joint risk assessment report for 2022. The report highlights the increasing vulnerabilities across the financial sector as well as the rise of environmental and cyber risks.  

​​​​​​​The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the requirements for originators, sponsors and original lenders related to risk retention as laid down in the Securitisation Regulation and as amended by the Capital Markets Recovery Package (CMRP). These RTS aim to provide clarity on the risk retention requirements ensuring a better alignment of interests and reducing the risk of moral hazard, thus contributing further to the development of a sound, safe and robust securitisation market in the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion on the amendments proposed by the European Commission to the EBA final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS). In the Opinion the EBA expresses its disagreement with two substantive changes proposed by the Commission and agrees with the other amendments, which are considered non-substantive. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Report on the amendment of its Regulatory technical standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication and secure communication (SCA&CSC) under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The changes introduce a new mandatory exemption to SCA that will require account providers not to apply SCA when customers use an account information service provider (AISP) to access their payment account information, provided certain conditions are met. The amendment aims to reduce frictions for customers using such services and to mitigate the impact that the frequent application of SCA and the inconsistent application of the current exemption have on AISPs’ services.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a survey for banks on their experiences with the application of the so-called infrastructure supporting factor in accordance with the Capital Requirement Regulation (CRR 2). Besides assessing the application of the supporting factor, the survey aims at providing valuable information on the materiality of infrastructure project loans across EU banks, irrespective of whether credit institutions specialise in infrastructure lending or not. The survey runs until 27 May 2022. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Risk Dashboard for the fourth quarter (Q4) of 2021. A special feature highlights the potential impact of the Russian invasion of Ukraine on the EU/EEA banking sector. Based on the EBA’s initial assessment, direct exposures to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine are limited, but second-round effects may be more material from a financial stability perspective.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) have today updated their joint supervisory statement on the application of the Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR). This includes a new timeline, expectations about the explicit quantification of the product disclosures under Article 5 and 6 of the Taxonomy Regulation, and the use of estimates.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated list of institutions, which have a reporting obligation for the purpose of the 2022 EU supervisory benchmarking exercise. The EBA will be conducting the 2022 benchmarking exercise on a sample of 115 banks 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 EBA published today the findings from its assessment of competent authorities’ approaches to the anti-money laundering and countering the financing of terrorism (AML/CFT) supervision of banks. Since the EBA started those reviews in 2019 and strengthened its AML/CFT guidance, national supervisors have started to adopt meaningful reforms to improve their AML/CFT supervision, but the EBA found that significant challenges remain in important areas such as the identification and assessment of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) risks.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a call for research papers in view of its 11th Policy Research Workshop taking place on 26-27 October 2022 on the topic "Technological Innovation, Climate Finance and Banking Regulation". The paper submission deadline is 24 June 2022.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on probabilities of default (PDs) and losses given default (LGDs) for default risk model for institutions using the new Internal Model Approach (IMA) under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB). These final draft RTS specify the requirements for estimating PDs and LGDs using an institution's internal methodology or external sources. These draft RTS are part of the deliverables included in the roadmap for the new market and counterparty credit risk approaches.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final revised Guidelines on common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) and supervisory stress testing.  The revisions aim at implementing the amendments to the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD V) and Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR II) and promoting convergence towards best supervisory practices.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published an Opinion following the notification by the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) of its intention to activate a new systemic risk buffer (SyRB). The measure is introduced in light of the macroprudential risks in the Belgian economy related to the substantial level of systemic risk in banks’ mortgage portfolios and the related financial system vulnerabilities. The EBA does not object to the introduction of the measure.