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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on the monitoring of the threshold and other procedural aspects on the establishment of intermediate EU parent undertakings (IPU) as laid down in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The Guidelines specify how third country groups should calculate and monitor the total value of their assets in the Union in order to ensure timely application of the IPU requirement.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today a Discussion Paper aiming at gathering some preliminary input on how to standardise the proportionality assessment methodology for credit institutions and investment firms. The discussion paper invites all market participants affected by the proportional treatment in the application of EBA regulatory products to provide their input. The consultation runs until 22 October 2021.

The Discussion paper on proportionality assessment methodology aims at gathering some preliminary input on how to standardise the proportionality assessment methodology for credit institutions and investment firms. The proportionality assessment methodology entails two separate steps: (a) the definition of four different classifications and (b) the definition of the metrics applicable to the different categorisations in view of assessing whether there is need for proportional treatment of the different categories of institutions.