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Profitability of EU banks remains resilient although the sector is confronted with materialising credit risks
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Q1 2024 quarterly Risk Dashboard (RDB), which discloses aggregated statistical information for the largest EU/EEA institutions together with the Risk Assessment Questionnaire (RAQ) a bi-annual qualitative survey with banks’ expectations for future trends and developments. EU/EEA’s banks continue to benefit from wide interest margins improving further their profitability and capital position. However, credit risks have started materialising with an increase in non-performing loans during the first quarter. The majority of banks surveyed expect further asset quality deterioration in CRE, SMEs loans and consumer credit in the next 6-12 months.
The EBA publishes final standards for assessing the materiality of extensions and changes to new market risk internal models
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the conditions for assessing the materiality of model extensions and changes, as well as changes to the subset of modellable risk factors, applicable under the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book (FRTB) rules. With the submission of these final draft RTS to the European Commission, the EBA completes its roadmap on market and counterparty credit risk approaches published on 27 June 2019.