Credit risk focuses on the development of BTS, Guidelines and Reports regarding the calculation of capital requirements under the Standardised Approach and IRB Approach for credit risk and dilution risk in respect of all the business activities of an institution, excluding the trading book business. The objective is to provide a consistent implementation across the EU of the provisions related to topics such as credit risk adjustments, definition of default, permission to use Standardised/IRB […]
The EBA identifies and addresses harm that arises for EU consumers as a result of their interactions with financial institutions. It does so for all retail banking products in the EBA’s scope of action, which are mortgage credit, consumer credit, payment accounts, payment services, electronic money, and deposits, including structured deposits. linksEBA's Consumer cornerESMA's Investor cornerEIOPA's Consumer Protection and Financial Innovation webpageJoint Consultation on amendments to the […]
Enhanced cooperation between supervisory authorities both at EU and global level is key to strengthening the supervision of cross-border banking groups. Colleges of supervisors are the vehicles for the coordination of supervisory activities. Under EU law, colleges of supervisors have to be established for EEA banks with subsidiaries or significant branches in other EEA countries. They may include supervisors in non-EEA countries, where relevant. The colleges allow supervisory authorities to […]
The EBA is required to ensure the integrity, transparency and orderly functioning of financial markets. As part of this mandate , the EBA works to prevent the use of the financial system for the purposes of money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF).The EBA discharges its functions in this field by:leading the development of AML/CFT policy and supporting its effective implementation by competent authorities and financial institutions across the EU to foster an effective risk-based […]
Sustainable finance aims at integrating Environmental, Social or Governance (ESG) criteria into financial services, and at supporting sustainable economic growth. It also aims at increasing financial actors' awareness and transparency about the need to mitigate ESG risks via an appropriate management, considering in particular the longer-term nature of such risks and the uncertainty on their valuation and pricing.In March 2018, the European Commission published its Action plan on Financing […]
The EBA coordinates financial education and literacy initiatives of national authorities, by identifying good practices and organizing workshops to promote them across national authorities, developing factsheets that provide tips for EU consumers in easy-to-understand language, and publishing warnings to make consumers aware of risks arising from specific products.
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The core aim of the large exposures regime is to act as a backstop to prevent an institution from incurring disproportionately large losses as a result of the failure of an individual client or group of connected clients due to the occurrence of unforeseen events. The objective of ensuring that risks arising from large exposures to individual clients or groups of connected clients are kept to an acceptable level is part of the overarching principles of prudential supervision, which are to […]
The access to the market of regulated financial services is a critical 'gate keeping function' to ensure that only entities that are able to assure the safety and soundness of the business and the integrity of the market may provide such activities. For this reason, access to the market is subject to licensing by the competent authority. It includes authorisation, passporting notification, assessment of qualifying holdings and monitoring of regulatory perimeter also in light of ongoing […]
Issuers of asset-referenced tokens (ARTs) and electronic money tokens (EMTs) are required to hold the relevant authorisation to carry out activities in the EU. The relevant requirements are set out in the Markets in Crypto-assets Regulation (MiCAR) and are complemented by technical standards and guidelines developed by the EBA.
DocumentsStatement on timely preparatory steps towards the application of MiCAR to asset-referenced and e-money tokens | TemplateLinksMarkets in Crypto […]
The EBA has a strong interest in promoting sound and high quality accounting and disclosure standards for the banking and financial industry, as well as transparent and comparable financial statements that strengthen market discipline. The EBA also advocates for sound audit practices that contribute to high quality corporate reporting and to useful and understandable auditor reporting. The developments in the area of international accounting and auditing standard setting are, therefore, […]
The Deposit Guarantee Scheme Directive (DGSD) aims to facilitate access to the internal market through the freedom of establishment and the freedom to provide financial services while increasing the stability of the banking system and the protection of depositors. To fulfil its role of monitoring the implementation of the DGSD, national authorities must notify the EBA of any relevant information as well as of any actions taken. The EBA publishes the non-confidential elements of these […]
ECAIs play a significant role in the standardised approach and securitisation framework of prudential regulation through the mapping of each of their credit assessments to the corresponding risk weights. The EBA, together with ESMA and EIOPA, has been assigned the task of providing an objective mapping across all ECAIs in order to promote a consistent implementation of CRR across the EU. Importantly, the EBA will also contribute to the implementation of CRR2/CRDV and CRA 3 Regulation in […]
The EBA’s work on FinTech and Financial Innovation has evolved over recent years in line with the proliferation of technology in the banking sector. Consistent with the EBA's statutory objectives and duty to monitor financial innovation, the EBA developed the 2018 FinTech Roadmap, established the FinTech Knowledge Hub and set out the EBA’s FinTech priorities until 2020. The EBA’s current and future FinTech priorities include a range of actions to support the scaling of innovative technology […]
This page presents the policy work undertaken by the EBA to promote transparency and enhanced public disclosures by financial institutions in order to reinforce market discipline.Following the recent updates to the regulatory frameworks for credit institutions and investment firms, and the publication in 2018 of the European Commission’s action plan on sustainable finance, the EBA is implementing a new policy strategy on institutions’ Pillar 3 disclosures that seeks to increase efficiency of […]
The main goal of equivalence is to manage effectively and facilitate cross-border activity of financial market players in a sound prudential environment, as third countries adhere and adopt the same high standards of prudential rules that are in force within the EU. To this extent, the recognition of equivalence can provide mutual benefits for both the EU and third country financial markets and institutions. The EBA carries out two types of equivalence assessments: equivalence of the […]