ESAs joint committee interactive factsheet guides consumers on making sustainable financial choices—covering investments, loans, insurance, and pensions with ESG features, benefits, risks, and tips to avoid greenwashing under EU sustainability frameworks.
The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published an interactive factsheet that answers consumers’ most frequently asked questions about sustainable finance. The factsheet provides tips to consumers considering buying financial products with sustainability features, including loans, investments, insurances and pensions.
EBA statement at COP28 reaffirms commitment to integrating sustainability into EU banking regulation, covering climate risk management, ESG disclosures, stress testing, prudential framework enhancements, and efforts to combat greenwashing while supporting the transition to a climate-neutral economy.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its environmental statement in the context of the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28). Environment, Social and Governance (ESG) remain one of the EBA’s priorities. The EBA highlighted its effort to integrate sustainability aspects in many areas of its work, including risk management, disclosures, supervisory practices, climate stress testing and the Pillar 1 framework.
EBA opinion on Denmark’s proposal to activate a 7% systemic risk buffer (SyRB) under Directive 2013/36/EU targeting real estate and construction exposures, assessing risks, proportionality, and impact on financial stability by June 2024.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published an Opinion following the notification by the Ministry of Business, Industry, and Financial Affairs of Denmark to apply Article 133 of the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) to activate a new systemic risk buffer (SyRB). The proposed measure introduces a systemic risk buffer rate of 7% for a subset of exposure categories located in Denmark to increase banks’ ability to absorb unexpected losses from exposures to real estate companies. The intended date of application of the measure is 30 June 2024.
European Banking Authority consults on draft guidelines under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 to prevent money laundering and terrorist financing via funds and crypto-assets transfers, including Travel Rule requirements for financial institutions and crypto-asset service providers.
EBA consults on draft Regulatory Technical Standards under CRR to define materiality assessment criteria for changes to FRTB Internal Models Approach (IMA) and modellable risk factors, aiming to ensure consistent application of market risk capital requirements.
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the conditions for assessing the materiality of extensions and changes to the use of internal models as well as to the subset of the modellable risk factors applicable under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) rules. These RTS are part of the Phase 4 deliverables of the EBA roadmap for the new market and counterparty credit risk approaches. The consultation runs until 29 February 2023.