Focus on... 2014 EU-wide stress test The European Banking Authority (EBA) has announced the key components of the forthcoming 2014 EU-wide stress test that will be conducted on a wide sample of EU banks. The objective of the EU-wide stress tests is to help supervisors assess the resilience of financial institutions in the European Union to adverse market developments. This exercise aims at ensuring consistency and comparability of the outcomes across all banks based on a common methodology, scenarios and accompanied by a consistent disclosure exercise. 31/01/2014
Latest news EBA consults on draft technical standards on data waiver The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the conditions according to which competent authorities (CAs) may grant institutions permission to use relevant data covering shorter time series (data waiver permission), when estimating risk parameters. These RTS will be part of the Single Rulebook aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation in the banking sector in the European Union. The consultation runs until 7 June 2014. 07/03/2014 - News EBA publishes results of the Basel III monitoring exercise as of 30 June 2013 The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today its fifth report of the Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise, run in parallel with the one conducted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at a global level, allowed to gather aggregate results on capital, Risk Weighted Assets (RWAs), liquidity and leverage ratios for banks in the European Union (EU). 06/03/2014 - Press releases EBA reports on impact of possible leverage ratio definitions The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a report on the leverage ratio which provides a policy analysis and a quantitative assessment of the impact that would derive from aligning the current Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) definitions of the leverage ratio's exposure measure to the revised standard published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on 12 January 2014 (‘Basel III’). The EBA has produced the report on its own initiative to provide recommendations to the European Commission in view of its forthcoming delegated act on the definitions of leverage ratio. 05/03/2014 - News EBA consults on draft technical standards on the margin periods for risk used for the treatment of clearing members' exposures to clients The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) aimed at specifying the minimum margin periods of risk (MPOR) that institutions acting as clearing members may use for the calculation of their capital requirements for exposures to clients. These RTS will be part of the Single Rulebook aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation in the banking sector in the European Union. The consultation runs until 9 May 2014. 28/02/2014 - News All news »	Consultations Consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) onthe conditions according to which competent authorities may grant permission for data waiver Deadline: 07/06/2014 Consultation on draft technical standards on the margin periods for risk used for the treatment of clearing members’ exposures to clients Deadline: 09/05/2014 Discussion on the impact on the volatility of own funds of the revised IAS 19 and the deduction of defined pension assets from own funds Deadline: 14/04/2014 Consultation on draft Implementing Technical Standards on the mapping of ECAIs’ credit assessments Deadline: 05/05/2014 All consultations »