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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on draft Guidelines on product oversight and governance arrangements for retail banking products. The guidelines, which apply to both manufacturers and distributors of retail banking products, aim at ensuring that the interests, objectives and characteristics of consumers are taken into account when such products are designed and brought to market. The consultation will run until 10 February 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on valuation in recovery and resolution. These draft RTS aim to provide a common structure to decisions made by resolution authorities and independent valuers and to promote a consistent application of methodologies for such valuations across the EU. The consultation runs until 6 February 2015.

ESAs published today a Joint Letter to the Economic and Financial Affairs Council (ECOFIN) on the ESAs’ budget 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a consultation paper on Guidelines on national provisional lists of the most representative services linked to a payment account and subject to a fee. The EU Payment Accounts Directive requires the EBA to develop standardised terminology and information documents related to payment accounts for consumers across the EU. As a first step, the EBA has developed Guidelines to help Competent Authorities identify the most representative services linked to a payment account and subject to a fee in their jurisdictions. The consultation will run until 9 January 2015. The technical standards that will subsequently be developed will allow EU consumers to make better informed decisions when choosing their payment accounts.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) under Article 55(3) of the Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD). These RTS support the effective application of the write-down and conversion powers in relation to liabilities governed by the law of a third country. The consultation is part of the EBA’s work to promote the effective application of recovery and resolution powers to banks and banking groups with a cross-border presence and to foster convergence of practices between relevant authorities and institutions across the EU. The consultation runs until 5 February 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launches today a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on materiality threshold of past due credit obligations. The EBA proposes a series of new conditions against which National Supervisory Authorities (NSAs) should set a materiality threshold for past due credit obligations. The consultation runs until 31 January 2015.

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, ESMA and EIOPA - ESAs) published today an addendum to the joint consultation on the mapping of the credit assessments to risk weights of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs). The addendum provides further details on the application of the rules proposed in the draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) in relation to particular ECAIs and is to be considered as an extension of the consultation process. The consultation period will be reopened until 30 November 2014 in order to collect additional comments.

The EBA released a clarification statement following Andrea Enria's address at the FRSN conference in Berlin on "The Comprehensive Assessment, the ECB’s New Role and Limits of a Common Supervision in the EU".