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The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) published today the list of identified financial conglomerates for 2022. The 2022 list includes 63 financial conglomerates with the head of group located in the European Union or European Economic Area.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the identification of a group of connected clients (GCC) under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These draft RTS, in conjunction with the EBA Guidelines on connected clients, provide the complete framework for the identification of two or more natural or legal persons who are so closely linked by idiosyncratic risk factors, that it is prudent to treat as a single risk.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) updated today the list of diversified indices, originally published in 2013 and previously updated in 2019. The list is part of the implementing technical standards (ITS) drafted to calculate the capital requirements for position risk in equities according to the standardised rules. The list has been updated according to the procedure and methodology laid down in the ITS and submitted to the European Commission for endorsement.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated list of capital instruments that Competent Authorities across the European Union (EU) and for the first time the European Economic Area (EEA) have classified as Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1). Since the publication of the previous update in December 2021, the CET1 instruments compliant with the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and issued by institutions from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway have been added to the list. The list will be maintained and updated on a regular basis.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) specifying the requirements for the information that credit institutions selling NPL shall provide to prospective buyers. The objective of the draft ITS is to provide a common data standard for the NPL sales or transfers across the EU enabling cross-country comparison and thus reducing information asymmetries between the sellers and buyers of NPL, thus improving the functioning of NPL secondary markets.