WORD OF THE DAY® – Clean-Up Call
The European Banking Authority published its 2025 European Resolution Examination Programme report. The report sets three priorities for resolution authorities and banks for 2025 and looks at the progress achieved in 2023,...more
The European Banking Authority has published its final amendments to the Regulatory Technical Standards on the market risk framework, also known as the Fundamental Review of the Trading Book. The EU Capital Requirements...more
Elevated interest rates have led to an increase in European NPL volumes, but levels remain far below the peaks during the financial crisis period. NPL investors and servicers are rethinking their business models to adjust to...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 PRUDENTIAL REGULATION - a) General - (i) EU - EBA: Opinion on measures in accordance with Article 458 CRR following a notification by the De Nederlandsche Bank - Status: Final - The EBA has...more
The European Banking Authority has published a report on the fact-finding exercise on creditworthiness assessment practices of non-bank lenders. The exercise is a follow-up to the Consumer Trends Report published in April...more
The European Banking Authority has published its final draft Implementing Technical Standards amending the Implementing Regulation on the benchmarking of credit risk, market risk, and IFRS9 models for the 2025 exercise....more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 Prudential Regulation - (a) General - (i) International - BCBS: Consultation on report regarding various technical amendments and FAQs - Status: Consultation - Deadline for the submission of...more
The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) regulation is part of the European Union’s (EU) strategy to enhance the overall stability of the EU financial system by ensuring that financial entities are resilient to digital...more
On 4 July 2024, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published new guidelines on information requirements in relation to transfers of funds and certain cryptoasset transfers under Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (the recast,...more
The European Commission has adopted the Commission Implementing Regulation amending the Implementing Technical Standards laid down in Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2016/1799 as regards the mapping tables specifying...more
On 27 June, our cross border team held a dynamic discussion on CRD 6: Third Country Branches covering an overview of the key changes introduced by the directive. We discussed the impact of the new authorisation requirements...more
The European Banking Authority has published an updated report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1, Tier 2 and total loss absorbing capacity as well as the minimum requirement for own funds and eligible liabilities...more
The European Banking Authority has finalized its draft implementing technical standards on public disclosures by institutions that implement the changes in the Pillar 3 disclosure framework introduced by the third Capital...more
The European Banking Authority has finalized its draft regulatory technical standards on the conditions for assessing the materiality of model extensions and changes to the use of alternative internal models and changes to...more
I. IMPLEMENTING BASEL III THROUGH THE CRR III REGULATION - The Basel III standards comprise a package of reforms that were largely agreed by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision ("BCBS") in December 2017 and set out...more
Under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation, the European Banking Authority has published a package of technical standards and guidelines on prudential matters, namely own funds, liquidity requirements, and recovery plans....more
An elevated level of non-performing loans (NPLs) on European banks’ balance sheets drove a slate of legislation and regulation in recent years, including directives aimed at developing and enhancing a secondary market for...more
1. Bank regulation - 1/1 Prudential regulation - (a) General - (i) EU - EBA: Consultation on amendments to draft RTS on prudent valuation under Article 105(14) of the CRR - Status: Consultation - Deadline for the...more
The EU is harmonising the rules on the prudential supervision of EU branches of non-EU banks under CRD VI. The new EU-wide third country branch regime will introduce minimum requirements including capital and liquidity...more
On 28 November 2022, the European Council adopted the Digital Operational Resilience Act (“DORA”), concluding the final step in the EU legislative approval process and on 16 January 2023 DORA entered into force. DORA will be...more
“Super Wednesday” 28 June 2023 marked the beginning of the next phase in the evolution of EU payments regulation with the European Commission’s publication of its anticipated proposals to improve the functioning of PSD2. This...more
1. Bank regulation - 1.1 Prudential regulation - The ESRB has published a speech by Christine Lagarde, President of the ECB and Chair of the ESRB, on its first general warning about financial stability risks that it published...more
The new regulatory technical standards in relation to risk retention under the EU Securitisation Regulation have now come into force. This is a significant development as risk retention is a key aspect of the EU...more
The EBA has published the European Supervisory Examination Programme (ESEP) for 2024, which identifies key topics for heightened supervisory attention across the EU. The EBA selected three key topics for supervisory attention...more
On October 12, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced the publication of a report on the role of environmental and social risks in the prudential framework of credit institutions and investment firms. ...more