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The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) is organising the third Joint ESAs Consumer Protection Day on 3 June 2015 in Frankfurt am Main. The event will bring together, from all over Europe, thought leaders of consumer/investor organisations, national regulators, EU institutions, academics and key market participants to discuss consumer protection-related issues in the financial services area.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a call for research papers in view of its fourth policy research workshop taking place on 18-19 November 2015 in London on the topic ‘Financial regulation and the real economy: a micro-prudential perspective’.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Final Guidelines on standardised fee terminology for EU payment accounts in the EU. These guidelines are the first step towards developing standardised terminology across the EU. They are developed in accordance with the EU Payment Accounts Directive, which requires standardisation of terminology for services that are found to be common in at least a majority of Member States. These Guidelines have been finalised following a two-month consultation period that ended in January 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an update to its periodic risk dashboard summarising the main risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector on the basis of the evolution of Key Risk Indicators (KRI) from 55 banks for the third quarter of 2014. This edition of the risk dashboard is the first to have balance sheet information based on the supervisory reporting standards from FINREP, the Financial Reporting framework for financial institutions across the EU.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) amending the Commission's Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 on supervisory reporting. These final draft ITS include minor changes to templates and instructions which the EBA deemed necessary to publish in order to reflect some of the answers published in its Single Rulebook Q&A, as well as to correct legal references and other clerical errors. The amendments are expected to be applicable for reporting as of June 2015.