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The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) clarifying and enhancing the conditions for assessing material model changes (MMC) and extensions following a review of the related Delegated Regulation. This review aimed to align the existing RTS with the amendments brought in by the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR 3), and to introduce amendments to enhance the supervisory effectiveness of the approval process for model changes. The consultation runs until 10 March 2025.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) welcomes the entry into force of the new European Banking Package, which implements the final Basel III framework into EU regulation. To ensure a smooth operational implementation of the Banking Package, the EBA encourages institutions and competent authorities to engage in an active dialogue.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today updated its roadmap for the implementation of internal ratings based (IRB) model requirements to limit compliance costs for institutions. The EBA also published its final supervisory handbook for the validation of internal ratings based (IRB) rating systems to clarify the role of the validation function as part of corporate governance.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a follow-up Report presenting the feedback received during the consultation on machine learning (ML) used in the context of internal ratings-based (IRB) models. This follow-up Report summarises the main conclusions from the consultation and provides an overview of the current use cases of ML techniques for IRB models.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its supervisory handbook for the validation of internal ratings based systems. This handbook clarifies the role of the validation function as part of corporate governance, in particular in terms of scope of work and interaction with the credit risk control unit. The consultation runs until 28 October 2022.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published four principles to support supervisory efforts in assessing the representativeness of COVID-19-impacted data for banks using internal ratings based (IRB) models. These principles will be part of a supervisory handbook, which the EBA will publish later in 2022 with the objective to ensure a harmonised approach in the use of COVID-19 data, especially where the use of moratoria and other public measures may have led to changes in default rates.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a discussion paper on machine learning used in the context of internal ratings-based (IRB) models to calculate regulatory capital for credit risk. The aim of the discussion paper is to set supervisory expectations on how new sophisticated machine learning models can coexist with and adhere to the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) when used in the context of IRB models. The discussion paper seeks stakeholders’ feedback on many practical aspects related to the use of machine learning in the context of IRB with the aim of providing clarity on supervisory expectations on their use. The consultation runs until 11 February 2022.