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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Guidelines for common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP). These guidelines will be applied in the supervision of all institutions across the Union and represent a major step forward in forging a consistent supervisory culture across the single market. The guidelines provide a common framework for the work of supervisors in their assessment of risks to banks’ business models’, their solvency and liquidity. These guidelines will be a key component of the EU Single Rulebook aimed at improving the functioning of the internal market, including a sound, effective and consistent level of regulation and supervision in the banking sector. The consultation runs until 7 October 2014.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a peer review on the implementation of its guidelines on the management of concentration risk under the supervisory review process (SREP). The report shows that National Competent Authorities (NCAs) largely comply with the assessed guidelines (GL31) and credit concentration risk forms an integral part of NCAs’ risk assessment system.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its final Guidelines on capital measures for FX lending to unhedged borrowers under the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). These Guidelines bring forward supervisory convergence across the EU and address the ESRB Recommendation, following their 2011 Report on lending in Foreign Currencies, mandating the EBA to draft Guidelines on this specific aspect.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a consultation on draft Guidelines on capital measures for foreign currency lending (FX lending) aimed at providing guidance to national competent authorities on how to deal with the specific risk of FX lending to unhedged borrowers as part of the Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). The consultation runs until 23 August 2013.

The EBA published today a discussion paper on the methodology for the assessment of liquidity and funding risk under supervisory review. The document, which contains a preliminary version of the common methodology for assessing liquidity and funding risk, aims at helping competent authorities and colleges of supervisors assess liquidity and funding risk and reach joint decisions on liquidity. This methodology will be part of the final SREP guidelines, which will be published for consultation in mid 2014.