International Regulatory Updates

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The aim is to assess vulnerabilities. It is not a pass-or-fail exercise. Participation increased to 75% (from 50% in 2014) of each national market. Focus on two major market risks: prolonged low yield environment and a “doublehit” scenario. Severe stress scenarios chosen to better id ...

Solvency II came into force on 1 January 2016 following a long period of preparation. Its phasing in stage is also drawing to an end with the publication of EIOPA's implementing technical standards and guidelines. This is indeed the dawn of the Solvency II era. Link to Press Release - Click here. ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Decision confirming the use of unsolicited credit assessments assigned by certain External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs) for calculating institutions' capital requirements. The Decision is part of the Single Rulebook in banking and will ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) issued today an Opinion to the European Commission expressing agreement with its proposed amendments to the EBA Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on benchmarking of internal approaches. These amendments, which were agreed with the EBA building on the experie ...

Click here to access the Annual Report 2015. Click here to access the Malta Financial Services Authority Annual Report and Financial Statement 31 December 2015. ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today corrective updates to two versions of its XBRL taxonomies for supervisory reporting, correcting technical errors in the implementation of some validation rules.  Following the publication by the European Commission of the relevant amendmen ...