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Elizabeth McCaul: Emerging risks for the European banking sector in the post-pandemic era

21 June 2021

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ECB extends leverage ratio relief for banks until March 2022

18 June 2021

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Frank Elderson: Patchy data is a good start: from Kuznets and Clark to supervisors and climate

16 June 2021

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Elizabeth McCaul: Interview with Cyprus News Agency

16 June 2021

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ECB launches consultation on its revised Guide to fit and proper assessments

15 June 2021

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CON/2020/16 Opinion on amendments to the Union prudential framework in response to the COVID-19 pandemic

19 May 2020

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CON/2020/15 Opinion on amendments to Latvian national security, emergency situation and mobilisation laws

10 May 2020

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ECB/2020/22 Regulation (EU) 2020/605 of the ECB of 9 April 2020 amending Regulation (EU) 2015/534 on reporting of supervisory financial information

6 May 2020

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CON/2020/12 Opinion on the identification and reporting by financial institutions of the allocation of sums deposited in savings account

16 April 2020

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ECB/2020/19 Recommendation of the ECB of 27 March 2020 on dividend distributions during the COVID-19 pandemic and repealing Recommendation (ECB/2020/1)

29 March 2020

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Climate risks and financial stability: the snowballing cost of procrastination

2 June 2021

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Bail out people, not banks

15 February 2021

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Fossil fuel lending is a financial stability issue

1 September 2020

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The EU recovery plan can still be made into a catalyst for sustainability

31 July 2020

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Which financial services are needed for financial inclusion?

7 July 2020

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EBA publishes its Report on management and supervision of ESG risks for credit institutions and investment firms

23 June 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Report on Environmental, Social and Governance (ESG) risks management and supervision. The Report, which is a key component of the EBA’s broader ESG work, provides a comprehensive proposal on how ESG factors and ESG risks should be included in the regulatory and supervisory framework for credit institutions and investment firms. [...]

EBA publishes report on the data provided by PSPs on their readiness to apply strong customer authentication for e-commerce card-based payment transactions

11 June 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report on the data provided by PSPs on their readiness to apply SCA for the subset of payment transactions that are e-commerce card-based payment transactions. The Report highlights the status of issuing and acquiring PSPs in enrolling online merchants, payment cards and payment service users (PSUs) into SCA-compliant solutions, and in requesting SCA for online payment transactions after 31 December 2020, when the SCA migration period ended. [...]

ESAs publish amended technical standards on the mapping of ECAIs

10 June 2021

The Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (EBA, EIOPA and ESMA - ESAs) published today two amended Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on the mapping of credit assessments of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs). [...]

EBA issues revised list of ITS validation rules

10 June 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today a revised list of validation rules in its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting, highlighting those, which have been deactivated either for incorrectness or for triggering IT problems. Competent Authorities throughout the EU are informed that data submitted in accordance with these ITS should not be formally validated against the set of deactivated rules. [...]

EBA publishes final revised Guidelines on major incident reporting under PSD2

10 June 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final revised Guidelines on major incident reporting under the Payment Service Directive (PSD2). The revised Guidelines optimise and simplify the reporting process and templates, focus on incidents with significant impact on payment service providers (PSPs), and improve the meaningfulness of the information to be reported. The revised Guidelines are also estimated to reduce the reporting burden for PSPs. [...]

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