European Banking Authority launches 2024 EU-wide transparency exercise
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has launched its 2024 EU-wide transparency exercise. Ahead of the 2025 stress tests, this transparency…
EBA priorities for resolution authorities and progress reports
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published its European Resolution Examination Programme (EREP) Report. It sets three priorities for resolution…
EU Banking Package: EBA publishes final draft technical standards on market risk
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published final amendments to its Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the fundamental review of…
EBA responds to postponing the application of the EU market risk framework
Following the EU Commission’s Delegated Act postponing the application of the revised market risk framework in the EU, the European…
Payment fraud: ECB and EBA release a joint report
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Central Bank (ECB) published today a joint Report on payment fraud data.…
Results of the EBA Peer Review of its guidelines on the definition of default
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Peer Review on its Guidelines on the application of the definition of default. …
EBA issues ‘travel rule’ guidance to tackle money laundering and terrorist financing
The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today new Guidelines on the so-called ‘travel rule’, i.e. the information that should accompany…
EBA calls for caution amid rising geopolitical risks for the EU/EEA banking sector
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published the spring edition of its risk assessment report (RAR). The report covers the…
The EBA welcomes the entry into force of the AMLA framework
The new legislative framework marks a significant step forward in the EU’s fight against financial crime, with a harmonised and…
EBA: Profitability of EU banks remains resilient despite materialising credit risks
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its Q1 2024 quarterly Risk Dashboard (RDB). It discloses aggregated statistical information for…
EBA publishes regulatory package under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation
The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today the package of technical standards and guidelines under MiCAR on prudential matters, namely…
EU Banking Package: EBA consults on new framework for operational risk loss
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation on three sets of draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) aiming to…
Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation: governance, conflicts of interest, and remuneration
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has been actively working on shaping the regulatory landscape for crypto assets by publishing three…
EBA and ESMA invite comments on investment firms prudential framework review
The European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published today a discussion paper on the…
EBA: Funds to protect deposits in case of bank failure are increasing
Deposits protected by EU deposit guarantee schemes (DGS) increased by 1.7% to 8.5 trillion Euros between 2022 and 2023, whereas…
The EBA publishes its final STS-Guidelines for on-balance-sheet securitisation
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the final Guidelines on the criteria related to simplicity, standardisation and transparency and…
EBA finds divergences in “virtual IBANs” issuance and regulation across the EU
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published a Report on the issuance of what is commonly referred to as ‘virtual…
Capital requirements and unfinished property: EBA consults on credit risk standards
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a public consultation on technical standards to specify how to create a legal…
EBA publishes final draft standards under the Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published three sets of final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) and one set of…
The European Banking Authority presents its main achievement in 2023
The EBA continued its work by finalising the implementation of the Basel III framework in the EU, implementing the ESG…
AML/CFT database EuReCa: EBA starts collecting information on natural persons
Starting from May 2024, supervisors across the European Union (EU) will be able to report names of natural persons to…
The European Banking Authority identifies new types of payment fraud
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published an Opinion assessing payment fraud data that has recently become available. EBA identifies…
The EBA observes an increase of high-earning bankers in the EU in 2022
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published its Report on high earners for 2022. The analysis reveals an increase of the…
EBA assesses EU banks’ internal approach for capital requirement calculations
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its 2023 Reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises. These…
Investment firm groups: EBA publishes final capital test guidelines
These Guidelines set harmonised criteria to address the observed diversity in the application of the group capital test across the…
The EBA launches call for papers for its 2024 Policy Research Workshop
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a call for papers in view of its 13th Policy Research Workshop taking…
Crypto-Assets Regulation: EBA consults on redemption plans guidance
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched a consultation on the Guidelines for the plans to orderly redeem asset-referenced or e-money…
National lists or registers of credit servicers: EBA publishes its final Guidelines
The Guidelines require basic information about credit servicers, such as their name and address and home Member State, as well…
Exposures to ESG risks: EBA seeks inputs on classification methodologies
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today launched an industry survey to receive input from credit institutions on their methodologies to…
Interest rate risk in the banking book: EBA publishes its scrutiny heatmap
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its heatmap following scrutiny of the interest rate risk in the banking book…
Internal-ratings-based systems: EBA updates roadmap and supervisory handbook
The European Banking Authority (EBA) today updated its roadmap for the implementation of internal ratings based (IRB) model requirements to…