Press releases

During the Board of Appeal Annual Meeting on 13 June 2024, the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) renewed the President and elected the Vice-President of the Board of Appeal, for a term of 2.5 years.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting, 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 ITS should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today the package of technical standards and guidelines under MiCAR on prudential matters, namely own funds, liquidity requirements, and recovery  plans. These products are part of the EBA’s ongoing efforts to foster a well-regulated market for asset-referenced and e-money tokens in the EU.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) today published its 2023 Annual Report, providing an account of the joint work completed over the past year.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published an Opinion following notification by the Norwegian Ministry of Finance of its intention to amend the risk weights for exposures secured by mortgages on commercial immovable property. The measure aims to limit risks associated with commercial immovable property. Based on the information provided, the EBA does not object to the risk weight adjustment.

​The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation on three sets of draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) aiming to standardise the collection and the record of operational risk losses and to provide clarity on the exemptions for the calculation of the annual operational risk loss and on the adjustments to the loss data set that banks must perform in case of merged or acquired entities or activities. The consultation runs until 6 September 2024.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has been actively working on shaping the regulatory landscape for crypto assets by publishing three regulatory products on governance, conflicts of interest and remuneration under MiCAR. These products are part of the EBA’s ongoing efforts to foster a transparent, secure, and well-regulated crypto-assets market.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its plan for the implementation of the data point model (DPM) 2.0 related to its reporting release 4.0 framework, with the objective of moving towards a more integrated regulatory reporting.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA - the ESAs) today announced that they have concluded a multilateral Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to strengthen cooperation and information exchange with the European Union Agency for Cybersecurity (ENISA).

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published their final Reports on Greenwashing in the financial sector.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published today a discussion paper on the potential review of the investment firms’ prudential framework. The discussion paper aims at gathering early stakeholder feedback to inform the response to the European Commission’s call for advice (CfA). The consultation runs until 3 September 2024. To assess the impact of the possible changes discussed in the paper, the EBA also launched a data collection exercise on a voluntary basis.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) today published templates, technical documents and tools for the dry run exercise on the reporting of registers of information in the context of Digital Operation Resilience Act (DORA) announced in April 2024.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published end-2023 data related to two key concepts and indicators in the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD), namely available financial means (AFMs) and covered deposits. The EBA publishes these data for the deposit guarantee scheme (DGS) in each Member State on a yearly basis to enhance the transparency and public accountability of DGSs across the EEA to the benefit of depositors, markets, policymakers, DGSs and Members States.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the final Guidelines on the criteria related to simplicity, standardisation and transparency and additional specific criteria for on-balance-sheet securitisations (so-called STS criteria). These Guidelines will ensure a harmonised interpretation of these STS criteria, in alignment with the EBA Guidelines for asset-backed commercial paper (ABCP) and non-asset-backed commercial paper (non-ABCP) securitisation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Report on the issuance of what is commonly referred to as ‘virtual IBANs’ (vIBANs). In the absence of a common definition, the Report observes that the industry issues vIBANs in different ways and for different purposes and national authorities diverge in interpreting and applying regulatory requirements. The Report also identifies resulting issues in terms of money laundering and terrorist financing, consumer and depositor protection, authorisation and passporting, and regulatory arbitrage, and provides recommendations on how to address them.