International Regulatory Updates
JUNE 22, 2016
The likelihood of prolonged low yield environment has further increased.
“Double-hit” scenario remains the key concern.
Low yields and a “double-hit” scenario are in focus of EIOPA’s Stress Test 2016 for the European insurance sector.
Vulnerabilities identified in the IORPs Stress ...
JUNE 22, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its fifth annual Consumer Trends Report, which provides an overview of the trends observed in 2016, the issues that will or could have an impact on consumers and other market participants and the areas where the EBA may take any action, if needed. ...
JUNE 21, 2016
Governance and risk appetite frameworks of euro area banks need to be strengthened, ECB report finds
The European Central Bank (ECB) today published a report summarising the findings of a thematic review in which the ECB evaluated the governance and risk appetite frameworks of the banks it directly supervises. The report identifies good practices and concludes that many euro area banks still need t ...
JUNE 16, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today its 2015 Annual Report, which provides a detailed account of all the work the Authority achieved in the past year and anticipates the key areas of focus in the coming years.
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JUNE 14, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying how institutions should take into account and treat several factors when assigning risk weights to specialised lending exposures. The purpose of these RTS is to harmonise the assignme ...
JUNE 03, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Decision on data for supervisory benchmarking. This Decision comes after the publication of the amended technical standards on benchmarking of internal approaches and requires Competent Authorities to submit data for the 2016 benchmarking exer ...
JUNE 01, 2016
On 31 May 2016, the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Investment Bank Group (European Investment Bank and European Investment Fund) hosted a seminar to discuss opportunities and challenges on the role and potential use of credit guarantees and synthetic securitisation in the banking ...
JUNE 01, 2016
What’s Inside:
MFSA Annual Report 2015
Anti-Money Laundering training
MFSA to consolidate Maltese Fund Framework
Regulatory Compliance Visits
EIOPA, EBA Stress tests , Deposit Guarantee Schemes announced ...
MAY 25, 2016
The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) has issued today a Communication clarifying the reporting of reference data under the Market Abuse Regulation (MAR).
Following the agreed later implementation of the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) and Regulatio ...
MAY 25, 2016
The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Guidelines on stress tests for deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs). The Guidelines provide a systematic methodology for planning, running and reporting on stress tests conducted by DGSs to assess their resilience to various types of scenari ...
