Press releases

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published clear guidance for banks on how to manage enhanced reporting requirements for operational risk, following the postponement of the first reference date under the amended Implementing Technical Standards (ITS). This move comes after the European Commission adopted Regulation (EU) 2025/2475, which delays the application of new operational risk reporting obligations to the end of June 2026.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) establishing the threshold up to which- non-banking CSDs (“designating CSDs”) may use banking CSDs or credit institutions for cash settlement without entities needing additional authorisation.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – ESAs) today published two factsheets designed to help consumers protect themselves from crypto and other online frauds and scams and explain how fraudsters increasingly use artificial intelligence (AI) to deceive consumers. To make the information easily accessible, the factsheets will be translated into all official EU languages and reproduced by national authorities.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) today published the 2025 edition of their joint report on payment fraud. The report covers the semi-annual data for 2022 to 2024 and confirms that the legal requirement for strong customer authentication (SCA) introduced in 2020 has contributed to reducing fraud levels. However, it also highlights the need for continued vigilance and for security measures to be adapted to combat new emerging types of fraud.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on structural foreign exchange (FX) under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These standards deliver greater clarity, consistency, and supervisory convergence in the application of structural FX provisions across the EU. The final RTS retain the overall approach of the existing EBA Guidelines, while introducing targeted enhancements to ensure a more harmonised and transparent framework.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules under its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting. This update highlights rules that have been deactivated due to inaccuracies or IT-related issues. Competent Authorities across the EU are reminded that data submitted according to these ITS should not be formally validated against the deactivated rules.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final draft amending Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the types of factors to be considered by national authorities in assessing the appropriateness of real estate risk weights. This review is driven by the revised Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR 3), which confers a new mandate onto the EBA regarding the Standardised Approach of credit risk.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) and Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) concerning material acquisitions, material transfers of assets or liabilities, and mergers and divisions involving credit institutions or (mixed) financial holding companies under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The standards are designed to support banking consolidation and deepen EU market integration by clarifying supervisory expectations, reducing regulatory uncertainty and ensuring consistent prudential assessment across the EU. The consultation runs until 5 March 2026.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a follow-up to the 2023 Peer Review Report assessing progress in the authorisation of payment institutions and electronic money institutions under the revised Payment Services Directive (PSD2). While notable improvements and increased convergence have been observed, significant differences persist in key areas such as governance, internal control mechanisms, and local substance. These divergent implementations continue to pose risks of regulatory arbitrage and an uneven playing field across Member States.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today released its Autumn 2025 risk assessment Report (RAR), confirming that EU/EEA banks remain strong in capital, liquidity, profitability and asset quality. However, the EBA calls for continued vigilance as geopolitical uncertainty, market volatility and increasing operational risks persist. The Report is published alongside the 2025 EU-wide transparency exercise, providing detailed and comparable data for 119 banks across 25 countries of the European Union (EU) and the European Economic Area (EEA), and is supplemented by the Autumn 2025 Risk Assessment Questionnaire (RAQ).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on draft amendments to the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on certain prudential requirements for central securities depositories (CSDs) and designated credit institutions offering ‘banking-type ancillary services’. The proposed amendments reflect changes introduced by the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Refit, notably allowing banking CSDs to provide banking-type ancillary services to other CSDs. This consultation runs until 3 March 2026. A public hearing will be held on 12 January.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Peer Review assessing how effectively supervisors implement and supervise diversity policies, specifically gender diversity, within the management bodies of financial institutions. The Review found that most of the competent authorities assessed have largely or fully met the benchmarks set and adequately supervised and implemented gender diversity policies. The Peer Review looked at six competent authorities, focusing on how they applied the respective requirements laid down in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD) and EBA Guidelines across six key benchmarks.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its semi-annual dashboard on the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities (MREL), which updates the information on the state of resolution planning and on the resources that banks are using to meet the requirements.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published the final technical package for version 4.2 of its reporting framework, marking a major step in the implementation of the DPM 2.0 semantic glossary and the modernisation of supervisory reporting across the EU. The final package will be applicable from December 2025.

The European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA, and ESMA – the ESAs) publish today the list of designated critical ICT third-party providers (CTPPs) under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This designation marks a crucial step in the implementation of the DORA oversight framework.