Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the assessment methodology under which competent authorities verify institutions’ compliance with the requirements applicable to their internal models under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) rules. These RTS are part of the phase 4 deliverables of the EBA roadmap for the new market and counterparty credit risk approaches. The consultation runs until 26 June 2023.

​The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) amending the ITS on specific reporting requirements on market risks (FRTB reporting), aiming at providing supervisors with the necessary tools to monitor these risks. The consultation runs until 21 June 2023. 

The Single Resolution Board, the European Banking Authority and ECB Banking Supervision welcome the comprehensive set of actions taken yesterday by the Swiss authorities in order to ensure financial stability.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Handbook on supervisory benchmarking of internal models. The Handbook is an online tool that provides guidance and links to relevant documents and information for the supervisory benchmarking to facilitate their accessibility. In particular, the Handbook includes overviews for all applicable Q&As relevant to credit risk, market risk and IFRS9 benchmarking. More detailed information is also provided for the key credit risk elements of the data submission. The Handbook will be regularly updated.

The European Supervisory Authorities[1] (ESAs), together with the European Central Bank (ECB), today published a Joint Statement on climate-related disclosure for structured finance products. The Statement encourages the development of disclosure standards for securitised assets through harmonised climate-related data requirements.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today issued a revised list of validation rules for its reporting standards (Implementing Technical Standards, Regulatory Technical Standards and Guidelines), highlighting those which have been deactivated either for incorrectness or for triggering IT problems. Competent Authorities throughout the EU are informed that data submitted in accordance with these reporting standards should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises conducted in 2022. These exercises aim at monitoring the consistency of risk weighted assets (RWAs) across all EU institutions authorised to use internal approaches for the calculation of capital requirements. Regarding market risk, for the majority of participating banks, the results confirm a relatively low dispersion in the initial market valuation (IMVs) of most of the instruments, and a decrease in the dispersion in the value at risk (VaR) submissions compared to the previous exercise. For credit risk, the variability of RWAs remained rather stable, despite the pandemic and the different banks’ pace in complying with the policies set out in the EBA internal rating-based (IRB) roadmap. A particular focus has been put on analysing the impact of the pandemic and the compensating public measures on the IRB models.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Report on diversity practices and the gender pay gap at the level of the management body. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a no-action letter stating that competent authorities should not prioritise any supervisory or enforcement action in relation to the new banking book – trading book boundary provisions.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final revised Guidelines on deposit guarantee schemes (DGS) contributions. The revised Guidelines further strengthen the link between the riskiness of a credit institution and how much it needs to contribute to the DGS funds that will be used to reimburse depositors in case their bank fails.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) setting out the conditions for the assessment of the homogeneity of the underlying exposures in a pool of a Simple Transparent and Standardised (STS) on-balance-sheet securitisation. Homogeneity is one of the key simplicity requirements enabling originators and investors to properly assess the underlying risks while facilitating investors due diligence.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated some of its existing Q&As on own funds and eligible liabilities to ensure consistency with the revised final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on own funds and eligible liabilities submitted to the European Commission in May 2021. While the latter have not been finally adopted yet, the EBA deemed it important to already provide clarity to institutions and market participants on some undisputed aspects related to the RTS that are particularly relevant for their practical implementation of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and the RTS.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched an industry survey to receive input from credit institutions on their green loans and mortgages as well as market practices related to these loans. The purpose of the survey is to collect both quantitative and qualitative information the EBA can use to advise the European Commission. The work is part of the Commission’s Strategy for financing transition to a sustainable economy. The deadline for the call for input is 19 April 2023.

​The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines addressed to resolution authorities for the publication of their approach to the bail-in tool implementation. Transparency and predictability are key both to the credibility of the resolution framework and to the safeguard of investors’ protection. These Guidelines aim at ensuring that a minimum level of harmonised information on how authorities would effectively execute the write down and conversion of capital instruments and the use of the bail-in tool (“exchange mechanic”) is made public. 

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on its draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory disclosures. The amended draft ITS incorporate the changes to the EU legal framework, in particular those related to supervisory reporting and investment firms.