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Improving microfinance regulations in Bosnia & Herzegovina

07/08/202024/08/2020 Dzavid Sejfovic Dzavid Sejfovic, Lider, Microfinance

Dženana Vračo had been loyal client of LIDER since 2008. She started her own business, a small grocery store in

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Coronavirus: EIF and European Commission launch new Covid-19 measures supporting micro- and social enterprises under the EUR 400m EaSI Guarantee instrument

06/08/202024/08/2020 FinConf News Alain Godard, EIF, European Commission

Enhanced terms under the EaSI Guarantee Instrument to support micro- and social enterprises in response to COVID-19 Call for Expression

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European Microfinance Platform

17/07/202006/08/2020 FinConf News European Microfinance Platform, Microfinance

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Digitalizacija, još uvijek neostvareni san u BiH

23/06/202024/08/2020 Dzavid Sejfovic Digital Transformation, Digitalisation, Dzavid Sejfovic

Po jednoj od najčešće prihvaćenih definicija, digitalna transformacija je kulturološka, organizacijska i operativna promjena organizacije, industrije ili sistema kroz pametnu

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Frank Elderson: Overcoming the tragedy of the horizon: requiring banks to translate 2050 targets into milestones

20 October 2021

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Frank Elderson: The role of supervisors and central banks in the climate crisis

19 October 2021

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Andrea Enria: Hearing at the European Parliament’s Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee

14 October 2021

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ECB publishes supervisory banking statistics for the second quarter of 2021

6 October 2021

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Edouard Fernandez-Bollo: ECB Banking Supervision’s post-pandemic priorities – the way forward

5 October 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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Debunking eight tales about European public debt and fiscal rules

29 September 2021

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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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ESAs invite stakeholders' input on PRIIPs review

21 October 2021

The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have opened today a call for evidence regarding the PRIIPs (Packaged retail and insurance-based investment products) Regulation. [...]

EBA publishes clarifications to the seventh set of issues raised by its industry working group on Application Programming Interfaces under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2)

20 October 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today clarifications to a seventh set of issues that had been raised by participants of its working group on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The clarifications respond to issues raised on downtime of dedicated interfaces, payment status/rejection reasons, ASPSPs restricting access in case of embedded redirection, scope of the bank offered consent, inability to initiate bulk payments via APIs and whether the Electronic Banking Internet Communication Standard (EBICS) is within the scope of PSD2. [...]

EBA publishes final draft regulatory technical standards on disclosure of investment policy by investment firms

19 October 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today new regulatory technical standards (RTS) on disclosure of investment policy by investment firms. The final draft RTS put forward comparable disclosures that should help stakeholders understand investment firms’ influence over the companies in which they hold voting rights and the impact of investment firms’ policies on aspects such as the governance or management of those companies. [...]

EBA updates version 5.1 of its filing rules for supervisory reporting

19 October 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an updated version of its 5.1 filing rules document for supervisory reporting. In particular, the update modifies rule 1.6 to simplify the use of the filing indicator by removing the option “empty filing” indicator. This updated rule must be followed for all the submissions and resubmissions as of 1 January 2023. In addition, the update modifies rule 3.6 to improve Consolidated/Individual information circulation and to allow for multiple consolidation levels for an entity. CON/IND is being moved from module name to reporting subjects. This change will apply as of 31 December 2022. [...]

European Supervisory Authorities publish sectoral reports on the supervisory independence of competent authorities

18 October 2021

The three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) – the EBA, EIOPA and ESMA – published today their individual reports on the supervisory independence of competent authorities (CAs) in their sectors. Based on the CAs’ self-assessment, the three reports highlight that the independence of NCAs is multi-faceted and dependent on a number of legal, institutional, operational and cultural factors. [...]