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The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an Opinion following the notification by the National Bank of Belgium (NBB) of its intention to extend a measure introduced in 2018 regarding the use of Article 458 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The measure is primarily driven by persistent macroprudential risks in the Belgian economy related to a substantial level of systemic risk in banks’ mortgage portfolios and of macrofinancial vulnerabilities. Based on the evidence submitted, the EBA does not object to the extension of the proposed measure, which will be applied from 1 May 2020 to 30 April 2021.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Report assessing institutions’ Pillar 3 disclosures, which aims atidentifying best practices and potential areas for improvement. While the EBA observes overall progress in institutions’ prudential disclosures, some practices may still impair the proper communication of their risk profile in a comparable way, compromising the ultimate objective of market discipline.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report on the review of the Regulatory Technical Standard (RTS) specifying the minimum monetary amount of the professional indemnity insurance (PII) or comparable guarantee for mortgage credit intermediaries. The EBA assessed the information obtained from national authorities, from a sample of intermediaries and through desk-based research and concluded that no amendments to the RTS are currently required.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated list of institutions, which have a reporting obligation for the purpose of the 2020 EU supervisory benchmarking exercise. The EBA runs this exercise leveraging on established data collection procedures and formats of regular supervisory reporting and assists Competent Authorities in assessing the quality of internal approaches used to calculate risk weighted exposure amounts.