International Regulatory Updates

ECB Banking Supervision conducted a comprehensive assessment for nine banks from March to November 2015. This followed an exercise in 2014, in which the ECB assessed 130 banks in preparation for assuming direct banking supervision of the largest banking groups within the Single Supervisory Mechanism ...

Link to Webpage: http://www.esma.europa.eu/news/ESMA-updates-EMIR-standards-data-reporting ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on Guidelines on the treatment of credit value adjustment (CVA) risk under the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP), as well as a data collection exercise for the Quantitative Impact Study (QIS) to calibrate the th ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a report benchmarking the institutions' remuneration practices concerning the use of the possibility to increase the maximum ratio between variable and fixed remuneration up to 200%. The Capital Requirements Directive (CRDIV) limits the aforementi ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a follow up report on the actions taken following the publication of its Opinion on the use of allowances, in October 2014, where Competent Authorities were asked to use all necessary supervisory measures to ensure that by 31 December 2014 those i ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) today published the draft ECB Regulation on the exercise of options and discretions available in Union law and the draft ECB Guide on options and discretions available in Union law. These documents lay down how the exercise of options and discretions in banking legisl ...

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on its draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on the procedures, forms and templates that competent authorities in the EU should use when consulting each other on qualifying holdings. The objective of these ITS is to str ...

The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has published today the Final Report on its public consultation on the draft Implementing Technical Standard (ITS) setting up procedures for the application of the transitional measure for the calculation of the Solvency II equity ri ...

The European Central Bank (ECB) has today published the list of 39 euro area banks that will participate in the 2016 EU-wide stress test conducted by the European Banking Authority (EBA). The EBA will coordinate the exercise in cooperation with national authorities and the ECB. The overall exercise ...

​​The European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA) has extended the deadline for the Call for Expression of Interest regarding the setting up of EIOPA Stakeholder Groups, the Insurance and Reinsurance Stakeholder Group (IRSG) and the Occupational Pensions Stakeholder Group ( ...