International Regulatory Updates

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final Report on the feasibility study of an integrated reporting system (IRS).  This Report is the outcome of over two years of effort and active engagement of both national and European authorities, as well as interaction with financial inst ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its annual risk assessment of the European banking system. The report is accompanied by the publication of the 2021 EU-wide transparency exercise, which provides detailed information, in a comparable and accessible format, for 120 banks across 25 ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report summarising the findings arising from the monitoring activities on the International Financial Reporting Standard (IFRS 9) implementation by EU institutions. The aim of this Report is to assist supervisors evaluate the quality and adequac ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) today published its first-ever large-scale assessment of how European banks are adjusting their practices to manage climate and environmental (C&E) risks, in line with the expectations set out in the November 2020 ECB Guide on C&E risks. It concludes that b ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) is today launching a public consultation on its draft Guide on the notification of securitisation transactions. This follows the ECB’s announcement of its decision in May 2021 to ensure that directly supervised banks comply with the requirements for risk retenti ...

The European Securities and Markets Authority, the EU’s securities markets regulator, explains the rules that apply in situations where someone, based in or outside the EU, spreads information proposing an investment decision about EU financial instruments (e.g. stocks or bonds), aimed at a broad ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Report on the platformisation of the EU banking and payments sector. The EBA identifies a rapid growth in the use of digital platforms to ‘bridge’ customers and financial institutions, a trend expected to accelerate in line with the wider tr ...

The European Central Bank has published on its website a report on the sanctioning activities across the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM). This report has been prepared by the SSM Network of Enforcement and Sanctions Experts to present comprehensive statistics on the sanctioning activities in rela ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has imposed administrative penalties of €420,000 on Allied Irish Banks plc and €195,000 on its subsidiary EBS dac after the banks miscalculated their risk-weighted assets for intragroup equity exposures. During nine and seven quarters respectively, Allied Irish ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its Report on high earners for 2019. The analysis shows that in 2019, 4 963 individuals working for EU banks received a remuneration of more than EUR 1 million, which is mostly the same as in 2018. The average ratio between the variable and fixed ...