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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today final Guidelines that extend the existing Joint Committee Guidelines on complaints handling (JC Guidelines) to credit servicers under the new Credit Servicers Directive. When handling complaints from borrowers, credit services are required to apply the same effective and transparent procedures that have been applied for more than a decade to other firms in the banking, insurances and securities sectors.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published an Opinion in response to the observations made by European Parliament in its 2022 Discharge Report. Out of 29 observations, which cover the areas of budget and financial management, performance, efficiency and gains, staff policy, prevention and management of conflicts of interest and transparency, procurement, internal control, and other comments, the EBA considers that the large majority (21) has already been addressed or does not require follow-up action. For a smaller number of observations (8) follow-up action is deemed to be an ongoing or continuous effort.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Peer Review on its Guidelines on the application of the definition of default.  The Review found that the effectiveness of supervision in this area is good, in particular as regards the monitoring of internal ratings-based approach (IRBA) credit institutions. Supervision of the definition of default of credit institutions using the standardised approach (SA) is also good but more varied, reflecting the more dispersed nature of credit institutions and the relative predominance of IRBA credit institutions in terms of size and assets in different jurisdictions. The Report identifies a small number of follow-up measures/recommendations for certain competent authorities as well as best practices that would be of benefit for other competent authorities to adopt.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on the draft Handbook on independent valuers for resolution purposes. The draft Handbook aims at enhancing convergence by providing best practices, high-quality methodologies and processes for the selection and appointment of independent valuers for resolution purposes, as well as examples on the application of these methodologies under some scenarios. The consultation runs until 19 September 2024.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Report on structured deposits in the European Union (EU), under the Markets for Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) to monitor this particular market segment. The Report finds that in more than half of the 27 national markets in the EU, structured deposits do not exist, and that the EU market remains very small at an aggregate level, with only €16.7 billion of structured deposits sold between 1 January and 30 September 2023 – the reference period of the Report -, and 95% of which was concentrated in only 4 EU Member States.

The three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – the ESAs) published today the second batch of policy products under the Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA). This batch consists of four final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS), one set of Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) and 2 guidelines , all of which aim at enhancing the digital operational resilience of the EU’s financial sector.