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The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation on its Guidelines on supervisory independence of competent authorities under the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). Risks to supervisory independence pose challenges to the soundness of supervision and good governance and new requirements in the CRD introduce measures to manage them. These Guidelines further clarify the arrangements that competent authorities should have in place to prevent and manage conflicts of interest. The consultation runs until 23 January 2026.

As an active member of the Network for Greening the Financial System (NGFS), the European Banking Authority (EBA) is proud to announce the release of the NGFS Declaration on the Economic Cost of Climate Inaction on the occasion of the 2025 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP30) in Belém, Brazil. The declaration underscores the mounting macroeconomic and financial risks of delayed climate action and reaffirms the NGFS’s commitment to supporting a well-managed transition to a low-carbon economy.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a data collection, through the competent authorities, to obtain the list of EU counterparties that will be required to apply to the EBA for validation of ISDA SIMM, as well as their contact persons. The EBA underscores the counterparties' obligation to apply for the authorisation of the use of initial margin models and warns of the legal consequences in case of non-authorised use under the European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR).

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a follow-up Peer Review Report on the exclusion from the credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk of transactions with non-financial counterparties established in a third country. This follow-up Review found that competent authorities continue to largely assess CVA risk sufficiently, using different approaches which are fit for purpose in satisfying the regulatory requirements and the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP) Guidelines. Furthermore, since the 2023 Report, all competent authorities have made some progress in strengthening their CVA risk assessments and addressing the follow-up measures suggested as part of that Report.