European Payments Initiative

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the results of its 2021 EU-wide stress test, which involved 50 banks from 15 EU and EEA countries, covering 70% of the EU banking sector assets. This exercise allows to assess, in a consistent way, the resilience of EU banks over a three-year horizon under both a baseline and an adverse scenario, which is characterised by severe shocks taking into account the impact of the pandemic. The individual bank results promote market discipline and are an input into the supervisory decision-making process. The adverse scenario has an impact of 485 bps on banks’… [...]

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

30 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today clarifications to a sixth set of issues that had been raised by participants of its Working Group (WG) on Application Programming Interfaces (APIs) under the Payment Services Directive (PSD2). The clarifications respond to issues raised on authentication with electronic signatures, biometrics and authentication on mobile apps, preventing social engineering fraud, ability of payment initiation service providers to refuse a payer’s request to initiate a payment transaction, and complexity in the authentication process. [...]

EBA publishes its final Guidelines on the monitoring of the threshold for establishing an intermediate EU parent undertaking

28 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on the monitoring of the threshold and other procedural aspects on the establishment of intermediate EU parent undertakings (IPU) as laid down in the Capital Requirements Directive (CRD). The Guidelines specify how third country groups should calculate and monitor the total value of their assets in the Union in order to ensure timely application of the IPU requirement. [...]

EBA consults on technical standards to identify shadow banking entities

26 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) setting out criteria for the identification of shadow banking entities for the purposes of reporting large exposures. The consultation runs until 26 October 2021. [...]

EBA launches discussion on proportionality assessment methodology

22 July 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today a Discussion Paper aiming at gathering some preliminary input on how to standardise the proportionality assessment methodology for credit institutions and investment firms. The discussion paper invites all market participants affected by the proportional treatment in the application of EBA regulatory products to provide their input. The consultation runs until 22 October 2021. [...]