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The European Banking Authority (EBA), following requests from stakeholders, published today an update on the application date of its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on additional liquidity monitoring metrics.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today an Opinion to the European Commission supporting its proposed amendments to the EBA final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) submitted to on 27 March 2014, which specifies the derogations concerning currencies featuring constraints on the availability of liquid assets. In particular, the EBA agrees with removing from its RTS the minimum 15% haircut to the value of the collateral posted by an institution with a central bank in order to obtain a credit line. It also supports the Commission’s other proposed amendments, which provide added detail and further legal certainty on the necessary conditions for the application of the derogations.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its updated Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting of liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) for EU credit institutions. The ITS include templates and instructions to update the LCR reporting framework following the Commission's adoption of the Delegated Act on the liquidity coverage requirement on 10 October 2014. As part of the EU Single Rulebook in the banking sector, these standards aim at harmonising reporting of the LCR across the EU by providing credit institutions with uniform templates and instructions.

These technical standards (ITS and RTS) draw a list of currencies featuring constraints on the availability of liquid assets and specify the derogations that could be applied to such currencies to address the inherent difficulties that institutions would face in meeting their liquidity coverage requirement even in spite of a sound liquidity management.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today an Opinion to the European Commission supporting its proposed amendments to the EBA final draft ITS on currencies featuring constraints on the availability of liquid assets. The EBA agrees with removing from its ITS the Danish Krone (DKK) as a currency for which there are insufficient liquid assets and supports the amendments to the recitals that justify why the Norwegian Krone (NOK) still qualifies as a currency with such constraints.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today two consultations on two draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) amending the Commission’s Implementing Regulation on supervisory reporting with regard to the Liquidity Coverage Ratio (LCR) and the Leverage Ratio (LR). The proposed amendments follow the Commission’ Delegated Acts specifying the LCR and the LR respectively. The consultation on the amendments to the LCR reporting will run until 10 February 2015 and the one on the amendments to the LR reporting will run until 27 January 2015.