Oonagh McDonald – FinConf News

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the conditions according to which consolidation shall be carried out in line with Article 18 of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). The aim of these draft RTS is to ensure that the appropriate method of prudential consolidation is applied for the calculation of the CRR requirements on a consolidated basis. Compared to the Consultation Paper, the final draft RTS have been revised also to reflect the amendments introduced as part of the Risk Reduction Measures Package adopted by the European legislators. [...]

EBA updates list of Other Systemically Important Institutions

15 April 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) updated today the list of Other Systemically Important Institutions (O-SIIs) in the EU, which, together with Global Systemically Important Institutions (G-SIIs), are identified as systemically important by the relevant authorities according to harmonised criteria laid down in the EBA Guidelines. This list is based on end-2019 data and also reflects the O-SII score and the capital buffers that the relevant authorities have set for the identified O-SIIs. The list of O-SIIs is available also in a user-friendly visualisation tool, including the information on O-SII buffers assigned to identify institutions across the EU and the achieved overall score. [...]

EBA updates lists of regional governments and local authorities (RGLAs) and of regional governments and local authorities (PSEs) for the calculation of capital requirements

8 April 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today the updated list of regional governments and local authorities (RGLAs) that may be treated as central governments (CGs), as well as the list of public sector entities (PSEs) that may be treated as RGLAs or CGs for the calculation of capital requirements, in accordance with the EU Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). [...]

EBA releases an erratum of the taxonomy package on reporting framework 3.0 phase 2

8 April 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today an erratum of the technical package on the reporting framework 3.0 phase 2. The corrections are mainly on the taxonomy files in M 02.00.a of MREL TILAC where the EBA has addressed the issue of reportable grey cells. [...]

EBA consults on the list of advanced economies to determine equity risk under the new market risk regime

7 April 2021

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the list of countries with an advanced economy for calculating the equity risk under the alternative standardised approach (FRTB-SA). These RTS are part of the phase 3 deliverables of the EBA roadmap for the new market and counterparty credit risk approaches. The consultation runs until 2 July 2021. [...]