On 20 July 2021, the Basel Committee of Banking Supervision published a consultation document setting out a technical amendment to the Basel framework. The amendment sets out a new process that will be used by the Committee to review the assessment methodology for global systemically important banks (G-SIBs). The Committee plans to replace the existing … Continue Reading
On 16 July 2021, the European Banking Authority launched a public consultation on amendments to its Implementing Technical Standards on currencies with constraints on the availability of liquid assets in the context of the liquidity coverage ratio. The proposed amendments remove the Norwegian Krone from the list, with the result that no currency will be … Continue Reading
On 13 July 2021, the Financial Stability Board (FSB) published an interim report on the lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic from a financial stability perspective. Among other things the interim report notes that: So far, the global financial system has weathered the COVID-19 pandemic thanks to greater resilience, supported by the G20 reforms, and … Continue Reading
On 13 July 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published final guidelines that clarify the requirements that the data inputs used to determine the scenarios of future shocks applied to modellable risk factors should meet. The guidelines, which have been developed in accordance with Article 325bh(3) of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), become applicable from … Continue Reading
On 1 July 2021, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision published two technical amendments to the standard on minimum haircut floors for securities financing transactions (SFTs). The first technical amendment addresses an interpretative issue relating to collateral upgrade transactions and the second corrects for a misstatement of the formula used to calculate haircut floors for … Continue Reading
On 30 June 2021, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU Decision (EU) 2021/1074 of the European Central Bank of 18 June 2021 on the temporary exclusion of certain exposures to central banks from the total exposure measure in view of the COVID-19 pandemic and repealing Decision (EU) 2020/1306. The decision extends … Continue Reading
On 1 July 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a revised Decision confirming the quality of unsolicited credit assessments assigned by certain External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs) for calculating institutions’ capital requirements. The revised Decision, which reflects the recognition of two additional ECAIs and the de-registering of three ECAIs, is part of the Single … Continue Reading
On 28 June 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation on revised guidelines on common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) and supervisory stress testing. The purpose of the revisions is to implement recent changes introduced by the Capital Requirements Directive V and the Capital Requirements Regulation II, … Continue Reading
On 25 June 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued final draft Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on information on supervisory approaches and aggregate statistical data concerning the new prudential requirements that Member State competent authorities will have to disclose publicly for all types of EU investment firms authorised under MiFID II. The EBA has developed … Continue Reading
On 24 June 2021, the European Commission extended by an additional year the current transitional regime regarding the capital requirements that EU banks and investment firms must maintain when exposed to non-EU central counterparties. The transitional regime will now continue to apply until 28 June 2022. However, this is the last and final extension possible … Continue Reading
On 24 June 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation regarding amendments to the Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on credit risk adjustments in the context of the calculation of the risk weight (RW) of defaulted exposures under the Standardised Approach (SA). The proposed amendments follow up on the European Commission’s Action Plan to … Continue Reading
On 18 June 2021, the European Central Bank (ECB) announced that the euro area banks it directly supervises may continue to exclude certain central bank exposures from the leverage ratio, as exceptional macroeconomic circumstances due to the COVID-19 pandemic continue. The announcement extends until March 2022 the leverage ratio relief granted in September 2020, which … Continue Reading
On 10 June 2021, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/930 of 1 March 2021 supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the nature, severity and duration of an economic downturn referred to in Article 181(1), point (b) and Article … Continue Reading
On 10 June 2021, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/931 of 1 March 2021 supplementing the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) with regard to regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the standardised approach for counterparty credit risk. The RTS specify: The method for identifying derivative transactions with one … Continue Reading
On 10 June 2021, the Joint Committee of the three European Supervisory Authorities (ESAs) published two amended Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on the mapping of credit assessments of External Credit Assessment Institutions (ECAIs). Since the adoption in 2019 of the ITS on the mapping of credit assessments of ECAIs, two additional credit rating agencies (CRAs) … Continue Reading
On 9 June 2021, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2021/923 of 25 March 2021 supplementing the Capital Requirements Directive IV by setting out regulatory technical standards (RTS) on the criteria to identify all categories of staff whose professional activities have a material impact on the institutions’ … Continue Reading
On 3 June 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published an update to its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on benchmarking of internal approaches. The updated ITS include all benchmarking portfolios and metrics that will be used for the 2022 benchmarking exercise. The benchmarking exercise is an essential supervisory tool to enhance the quality of internal … Continue Reading
On 31 May 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) and the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) jointly published a provisional list of additional instruments and funds that Member State competent authorities may allow to use as own funds for some of the smallest investment firms. The list has been put together in accordance with … Continue Reading
On 28 May 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation on draft implementing technical standards (ITS) on Pillar 3 disclosures regarding exposures to interest rate risk on positions not held in the trading book (IRRBB). The EBA has developed the draft ITS in accordance with its mandate in Article 434a of the Capital … Continue Reading
On 26 May 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published final draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) on own funds and eligible liabilities. The draft RTS align existing provisions to changes introduced in the revised Capital Requirements Regulation in the area of own funds. This is the case, in particular, for provisions relating to the regime … Continue Reading
On 12 May 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a speech given by its chairperson, Jose Manuel Campa, entitled The implementation of Basel 3 in the post-COVID 19 setting. In his speech Mr Campa covers: The measures taken in relation to the COVID-19 pandemic. In particular, Mr Campa states that on “the return to … Continue Reading
On 12 May 2021, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU (OJ), Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/763 of 23 April 2021 laying down implementing technical standards (ITS) for the application of the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR) with regard to the supervisory reporting and public disclosure of the minimum requirement for own funds … Continue Reading
On 29 April 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) specifying the types of factors to be considered for the assessment of appropriateness of risk weights and the conditions to be taken into account for the assessment of appropriateness of minimum loss given default (LGD) values … Continue Reading
On 28 April 2021, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued a consultation on draft implementing technical standards (ITS) on supervisory reporting with respect to Additional Liquidity Monitoring Metrics (ALMM). The consultation paper proposes amendments to the ITS on supervisory reporting with regard to ALMM reporting requirements. These amendments are mainly driven by the introduction of … Continue Reading
