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Andrea Enria, Chairperson of the EBA, gave a lecture on "The Single Rulebook in banking: is it ‘single’ enough?" at the University of Padova.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued an Opinion to the European Commission dissenting to its proposed amendment to remove the maturity ladder from the EBA final draft Implementing Technical Standard (ITS) on additional liquidity monitoring metrics. However, the EBA supports the proposed amendment by the European Commission with regard to the application date of the ITS from 1 July 2015 to 1 January 2016.

These Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specify the treatment of equity exposures under the internal ratings-based (IRB) approach. According to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) competent authorities are allowed to temporarily exempt from IRB treatment certain equity exposures held by institutions as at 31 December 2007. These RTS specify the conditions under which competent authorities can grant such an exemption.