On 24 April 2025, the Dutch Authority for the Financial Markets (Autoriteit Financiële Markten, the AFM) published a news update concerning the European Accessibility Act (Directive (EU) 2019/882, the EAA), which will become applicable in the Netherlands as of 28 June 2025. In this news item, the AFM urges financial institutions
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EBA peer review on the performance of stress tests by DGSs
On 7 April 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published a peer review report on the performance of stress tests by EU deposit guarantee schemes (DGSs).
Background
The peer review assessed the performance of stress tests by seven EU DGSs by examining how stress tests are performed against Article 4 of…
EBA’s annual assessment of banks’ internal approaches for the calculation of capital requirements
On 4 April 2025, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published its 2024 reports on the annual market and credit risk benchmarking exercises. The reports summarise the conclusions drawn from a hypothetical portfolio exercise conducted by the EBA during 2023/24. The exercise was performed on a sample of 43 European banks from 13 jurisdictions.
Published in OJ: ECB Decision on supervisory data reported to NCAs by supervised entities
On 4 April 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Decision (EU) 2025/673 of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 24 March 2025 amending Decision (EU) 2023/1681 on the provision to the ECB of supervisory data reported to the national competent authorities (NCAs) by the supervised entities.…
SRB consults on expectations in valuation capabilities
On 2 April 2025, the Single Resolution Board (SRB) issued a public consultation on expectations on valuation capabilities.
The consultation is part of the SRB’s engagement with industry in order to achieve its mandate and deliver on the Single Resolution Mechanism Vision 2028 strategy’s focus on improving crisis readiness.
In the consultation the…
ECB Macroprudential Bulletin: Issue 28
On 1 April 2025, the European Central Bank (ECB) published issue 28 of its Macroprudential Bulletin. In this issue the ECB explores the link between geopolitical risk and bank solvency. It finds that geopolitical risk weakens bank solvency, with major geopolitical shocks having the strongest impact. Macroprudential policy and microprudential supervision are key…
ECB Decision (EU) 2025/507 on the total amount of annual supervisory fees for 2024
On 27 March 2025, there was published in the Official Journal of the EU, Decision (EU) 2025/507 of the European Central Bank (ECB) of 7 March 2025 on the total amount of annual supervisory fees for 2024. The ECB Decision sets out the ECB’s supervisory fees for 2024. The total amount of annual…
Trilogue negotiating positions on the CMDI framework
On 24 March 2025, the Council of the EU published two notes (dated 17 February 2025) which both contain a three-column table comparing the EU institutions’ positions on the proposals for the review of the EU bank crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework. The first note covers the proposed Directive as regards the scope…
SRB consults on operational guidance on resolvability testing for banks
On 17 March 2025, the European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) published a statement (dated 14 March 2025) on the treatment of settlement fails with respect to the penalty mechanism under the Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR), following the major incident that affected T2S and T2 on 27 February 2025.
On…
Basel Committee initiates work on ICT risk management and synthetic risk transfers
- Lessons learned from the 2023 banking turmoil. The Basel Committee took stock of its work to develop practical