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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on draft Guidelines on arrears and foreclosure under the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD). As foreclosure can have significant consequences for consumers, creditors should implement measures to attempt to resolve with the borrower any payment difficulties before initiating foreclosure proceedings. These draft Guidelines will ensure that such measures are developed and adopted consistently across the European Union. The public consultation will run until 12 February 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on draft Guidelines on creditworthiness assessments under the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD). These draft Guidelines provide details on how creditors across the EU should assess and verify consumers’ creditworthiness before concluding credit agreements for immovable residential properties. The consultation will run until 12 February 2015.

In accordance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR), the EBA is tasked with monitoring the market for structured deposits across the European Union. In its paper, the EBA proposes a set of criteria and factors and includes explanatory notes to provide the rationale for each deviation from the criteria published by ESMA. The EBA considered that some of those criteria were not applicable to structured deposits, while others needed to be adapted and in some cases, new criteria had to be introduced, so as to take into account characteristics that are specific to structured deposits.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the periodical update to its risk dashboard summarising the main risks and vulnerabilities in the banking sector in the European Union (EU) on the basis of the evolution of Key Risk Indicators (KRI) from 53 banks across the EU in the first and second quarter of 2014. This edition of the risk dashboard is the first to have own funds’ positions and requirements data that is based on the supervisory reporting standards from COREP, the Common Reporting framework for financial institutions across the EU, and includes an annex on aggregate risk parameters that brings enhanced transparency on EU banks' and allows comparison across countries and geographical areas.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final technical advice to the Commission laying out criteria and factors for exercising intervention powers on structured deposits. This final technical advice, which has been developed in accordance with the Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) requiring the EBA to monitor the market for structured deposits, takes into consideration, where appropriate, comments received during a public consultation earlier this year.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a discussion paper on the draft requirements for passport notifications for mortgage credit intermediaries across the EU. The requirements will ensure that information about credit intermediaries that carry out business in one or more Member States is exchanged consistently between the competent authorities of the home Member State and of the host Member State. The paper issued today contains the EBA’s preliminary considerations on the issue. It aims at promoting discussion and gathering preliminary stakeholders’ views at an early stage of the process, so as to inform the upcoming work on the topic. The consultation runs until 12 March 2015.