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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) that specify the conditions under which competent authorities assess the significance of positions included in the scope of market risk internal models, as well as the methodology that competent authorities shall apply to assess an institution’s compliance with the requirements to use an Internal Model Approach (IMA) for market risk. These draft RTS are a key component of the EBA's work to ensure consistency in models outputs and comparability of risk-weighted exposures and will contribute to harmonise the supervisory assessment methodology across all EU Member States. The consultation runs until 13 March 2016.

MiFID II mandated European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA), in cooperation with the European Banking Authority (EBA) and European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA), to develop Guidelines for the assessment and the supervision of cross-selling practices. In order to take into account the cross-sectoral implications of this mandate, the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published the draft Guidelines under the auspices of the Joint Committee, and did so by widening the scope such that they consistently cover cross-selling practices in all three sectors. Following the joint consultation, several concerns were raised as to the ESAs’ ability to address cross-selling in a way that is compatible with related provisions in other Level 1 legislation, such as the Mortgage Credit Directive and the Payment Accounts Directive. Therefore, the Joint Committee decided not to issue final joint Guidelines, and for ESMA instead to issue its ESMA-only Guidelines covering only the investment sector. In addition, the three ESAs sent a letter to the European Commission asking the co-legislator to address the differences in the existing legislation and to ensure that the ESAs can regulate cross-selling practices in a consistent way across the three sectors, for the benefit of consumers, financial institutions, and supervisory authorities.

The European Banking Authority (EBA), following requests from stakeholders, published today an update on the application date of its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on benchmarking portfolios.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on cooperation agreements between deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs). These Guidelines include a multilateral cooperation framework agreement and minimum prescriptions to promote the rapid and consistent conclusion of cooperation agreements between DGSs, as provided under the new Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD).