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The EBA publishes an update of its equivalence monitoring activities
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has updated its confidential Report on equivalence monitoring activities and submitted it to European Parliament, the Council, the European Commission and the other European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs). To enhance transparency, the EBA also published a public summary outlining recent regulatory and supervisory developments in 26 non-EU jurisdictions deemed equivalent under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR).
EBA, ECB, national central banks and national supervisory authorities sign MoU in support of non-bank PSPs’ access to payment systems
The European Banking Authority (EBA), the European Central Bank (ECB), national central banks and national supervisory authorities across the European Economic Area have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and information sharing in support of non-bank payment service providers’ (PSPs) access to central bank-operated payment systems.
Final Q&As
Question ID: DORA001
Is there a detailed list of critical or important functions from a DORA perspective?
Question ID: DORA102
Is Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 (DORA) applicable to third-country branches in an EU country, if in the third country where their head office is established they would qualify as entities listed under under Article 2(1)(a), (n) or (o)?
Question ID: DORA237
Considering that insurance and reinsurance intermediaries and ancillary insurance intermediaries are not obliged by law to setup a dedicated legal entity to carry out insurance distribution and therefore some of them may have a principal professional activity other than insurance distribution, how should the calculation of the thresholds defined in DORA Article 2(3) point (e) for exclusion of those intermediaries which are micro, small or medium enterprises be interpreted?
Question ID: DORA 121
Is a small and non-interconnected investment firm (Art. 12 (1) IFR (Regulation (EU) 2019/2033)) that also holds a licence as a crowdfunding service provider according to Art. 12 ECSPR (Regulation (EU) 2020/1503) obligated to apply Art. 5-15 DORA or is it allowed to use the simplified ICT risk management framework of Art. 16 DORA?