Press releases

CEBS is today publishing a report (CEBS 2009 47) mapping in detail supervisory objectives and powers across EU banking authorities, with special focus on early intervention measures and the actual use of sanctioning powers.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors publishes its work programme for 2009.

CEBS publishes today its revised guidelines on financial reporting (FINREPrev2). The revision of the guidelines is part of CEBS’s effort to streamline reporting requirements for supervised institutions, consistent with the recommendations of the Financial Services Committee Report on Financial Supervision (the Franck Report) and the White Paper of the Commission on Financial Services Policy -2005-2010.

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today published guidelines establishing a standardised financial reporting framework (FINREP) for credit institutions operating in the EU. This framework will enable credit institutions to use the same standardised data formats and data definitions for prudential reporting in all countries where the framework will be applied.

CEBS has published guidelines on the Application of the Supervisory Review Process under Pillar 2. The supervisory review process is a central component of the new Capital Requirements Directive (CRD).

The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) is today publishing additional technical guidance to complement the CEBS guidelines on the Supervisory Review Process issued in January 2006 in the area of stress testing.

<p>The Committee of European Banking Supervisors (CEBS) today publishes its revised Guidelines on the management of concentration risk under the supervisory review process and Position paper on the recognition of diversification benefits under Pillar 2.</p>

The European Banking Authority launches today a consultation paper on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) to define the conditions and methodologies used to determine the overall exposure to a client or group of connected clients resulting from a transaction with underlying assets and the risks inherent in the structure of the transaction itself. The consultation runs until 16 August 2013.

The European Parliament has commissioned two studies reviewing the European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS). These studies will inform the deliberations of the European Parliament, in particular its Committee on Economic and Monetary Affairs’ (ECON).

The EBA agreed today on recommendations to supervisors to conduct asset quality reviews on major EU banks. While banks’ capital positions were significantly strengthened under the EBA’s recapitalisation exercise, the objective of the asset quality exercises will be to review banks’ classifications and valuations of their assets so to help dispel concerns over the deterioration of asset quality due to macroeconomic conditions in Europe.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) publishes today its third report of the Basel III monitoring exercise on the European banking system.

Andrea Enria's Lectio Magistralis at the University of Trento: "The crisis in Europe, the impact on banks and the authorities’ response"

The EBA publishes today a report on the results of the Basel III monitoring exercise, as a follow-up to the comprehensive European quantitative impact study (EU-QIS) conducted to analyse the impact of the new requirements and published in December 2010.

The Joint Committee of the European Supervisory Authorities (Joint Committee) has published today its first Report on Risks and Vulnerabilities in the European Union’s (EU) Financial System.

The EBA announced a new round of stress tests