International Regulatory Updates
MARCH 03, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on its draft Recommendation on the coverage of entities in banking group recovery plans, which is aimed at defining common criteria to identify entities (subsidiaries and branches) that need to be covered in group recovery plans, and ...
MARCH 02, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its fourth thematic comparative Report on recovery planning. The focus of this comparative analysis is recovery options, which are crucial for assessing institutions' actual capacity to regain viability following a period of severe financial distr ...
MARCH 02, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the nature, severity and duration of an economic downturn according to which institutions shall estimate the downturn loss given default (LGD) and conversion factor ...
MARCH 01, 2017
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its eleventh Report of the CRDIV-CRR/Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system. This exercise, run in parallel with the one conducted by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) at a global level, presents aggregate dat ...
MARCH 01, 2017
The European Central Bank (ECB) today launched a sensitivity analysis of the banking books of directly supervised banks with a focus on interest rate changes as part of its annual Supervisory Review and Evaluation Process (SREP). This stress test exercise is designed to provide the ECB with sufficie ...
FEBRUARY 28, 2017
What’s Inside This Issue:
IMF, EC give Maltese economy clean bill of health
MFSA Chairman features in Captive Review Power 50
Fitch affirms Malta's rating, gives positive outlook
MFSA launches Consultation process with the financial services industry with regards to a number of draft ...
FEBRUARY 23, 2017
The European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) have been made aware of operational challenges in meeting the deadline of 1 March 2017 for exchanging variation margin. Based on the material presented to the ESAs, the implementation appears to mainly pose a challenge for smaller counterparties. The 1 Mar ...
FEBRUARY 22, 2017
2016 Article IV Consultation—Press Release; Staff Report; And Statement by the Executive Director for Malta
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FEBRUARY 17, 2017
The European Central Bank (ECB) today launches a public consultation on draft amendments to the ECB regulation on reporting of supervisory financial information. The amendments update the regulation mainly to reflect changes in the International Financial Reporting Standards (IFRS). Other modificati ...
FEBRUARY 16, 2017
Increased cross-border activities require the reinforcement of the cooperation between National Competent Authorities
Close and timely collaboration is crucial to achieve consistent supervisory practices and to build a common European supervisory culture
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