European Banking Authority letter to EU co-legislators on the 2021 AML/CFT legislative package, highlighting expert recommendations for supervisory cooperation, direct supervision criteria for the new Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA), and consistency across financial crime frameworks.
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.
BSG own-initiative paper on non-bank lending
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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.
EBA list of institutions for the purpose of supervisory benchmarking (2022 Update) [xlsx]
Report on competent authorities' approaches to AML CFT supervision of banks
EBA Chairperson Jose Manuel Campa’s March 2022 public meeting register detailing discussions with BNP Paribas, EBRD, and Western Union on digital finance, regulatory alignment in Albania and Ukraine, AML enforcement, financial crime, and compliance challenges.
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.
Final Report on draft RTS on PD and LGD under the internal default risk model
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.