The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Annual Report which describes in detail the activities and achievements of the Authority in 2021 and provides an overview of the key priorities for the coming year.
2021 was a year of challenges and important changes for the EBA. The Authority continued to work under the exceptional circumstances brought by the...
•The Discussion Paper explores whether and how environmental risks are to be incorporated in the Pillar 1 prudential framework for credit institutions and investment firms;
•The paper touches on key elements such as time horizon, inclusion of forward-looking elements in the prudential framework, and the overall calibration of own funds requirements;
•The EBA is seeking broad...
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a call for research papers in view of its 11th Policy Research Workshop taking place on 26-27 October 2022 on the topic "Technological Innovation, Climate Finance and Banking Regulation". The paper submission deadline is 24 June 2022.
The workshop aims at bringing together economists and researchers from supervisory...
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – EBA, EIOPA and ESMA, held their first joint high-level conference on financial education and literacy on 1 and 2 February 2022. The conference gathered high-level government representatives as well as experts from public authorities, academia, NGOs, consumer associations and the industry to raise awareness of this important topic. It also...
▪ The technical standards aim to ensure that stakeholders are well-informed about institutions’ ESG exposures, risks, and strategies and can make informed decisions and exercise market discipline.
▪ The standards put forward comparable disclosures and KPIs, including a green asset ratio (GAR) and a banking book taxonomy alignment ratio (BTAR), as a tool to show how institutions are...