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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Guidelines on the treatment of connected clients for large exposures. These draft Guidelines review and update the ‘Guidelines on the implementation of the revised large exposures regime’ issued by the Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) on 11 December 2009. Their focus is exclusively on the issue of connected clients as defined in the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) and they reflect the developments in the area of shadow banking and large exposures both at EU and international level. The consultation runs until 26 October 2016.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting. They set out reporting requirements related to own funds, financial information, losses stemming from lending collateralised by immovable property, large exposures, leverage ratio and liquidity ratios. These draft ITS will be part of the Single Rulebook aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation in the banking sector in the EU and facilitating a proper functioning of cross-border supervision.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines regarding limits on institutions’ exposures to ‘shadow banking entities’ that carry out bank-like activities outside a regulated framework. In particular, these Guidelines introduce an approach that will allow EU institutions to set internal limits for their exposures to ‘shadow banking entities’, hence addressing in a proportionate way the risks that these exposures pose to the EU banking sector. The Guidelines were informed by a Report, also published today, on the exposures of a sample of EU institutions to ‘shadow banking entities’ and the impact of setting limits.

The EBA launched a public consultation on its guidelines proposing criteria to set limits on EU institutions’ exposures to shadow banking entities. The document lays out a qualitative approach for institutions to develop their internal policies for monitoring and setting appropriate limits, both at individual and aggregate levels. These guidelines will also help inform the Commission’s work in relation to its report on the appropriateness and impact of imposing limits on exposures to shadow banking entities under Article 395(2) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The consultation runs until 19 June 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Opinion on the review of the appropriateness of the definition of ‘eligible capital’, in response to a call for advice received from the European Commission in December 2013. On the basis of information gathered during the first year of application of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), the EBA provides its preliminary views which are relevant for the large exposures framework, as well as for investment firms and qualifying holdings.

These Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) aim at defining the conditions and methodologies used to determine the overall exposure to a client or group of connected clients resulting from a transaction with underlying assets and the risks inherent in the structure of the transaction itself.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Opinion on a draft structural measure of banking separation impacting the limits to intra-group large exposures that France intends to implement at national level. The EBA Opinion assessed the measures laid down in the French legal framework and found that such measure is consistent with the general principles governing the EU internal market.