2008

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its response to the European Commission's Call for Technical Advice No. 10 on the reduction of options and national discretions in the Capital Requirements Directive.

The Committee of European Securities Regulators (CESR) and the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) are publishing today their advice in response to the Joint Call for Technical Advice issued by the European Commission in December 2007 concerning the regulatory treatment of firms that provide investment services in relation to commodity and exotic derivatives. 

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is publishing today the second part of its advice on liquidity risk management, including 30 recommendations on liquidity risk management and supervision.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) together with the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Supervisors (CEIOPS) are publishing today recommendations to address the consequences of the differences in sectoral rules on the calculation of own funds of financial conglomerates.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its Advice on the review of the large exposures regime, in response to the European Commission's Second Call for Advice (CfA No. 7).

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) publishes today its proposals for a common EU definition of Tier 1 hybrids. CEBS proposals respond to a letter by the European Commission of April 2007.
 

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) together with the Committee of European Insurance and Occupational Pensions (CEIOPS) are publishing today the joint response of CEBS and the Interim Working Committee on Financial Conglomerates (IWCFC ), to the two parallel requests from June 2007, for technical advice from the European Commission (EC) on its recommendations on whether the supervisory arrangements of the US and Swiss supervisory authorities would achieve the objectives of consolidated and supplementary supervision.

In December 2007 the European Commission issued a joint Call for Technical Advice related to the review under Articles 65(3)(a), (b) and (d) of MiFID and Article 48(2) of the CRD. CESR and CEBS are requested to deliver its technical advice by end-July 2008.