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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published a report and accompanying press release, on its review of the regulatory technical standards (RTS) under the Payment Accounts Directive concerning standardised terminology...more
The European Banking Authority (EBA) has issued a consultation paper on draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) amending Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/206, supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR). The EBA is...more
Background – CRR III introduces a new transitional framework for the prudential treatment of exposures in crypto-assets. The new framework is applicable to credit institutions as of 9 July 2024 and includes own funds...more
The European Commission has adopted and published the final draft risk retention regulatory technical standards. The European Commission has adopted and published the final draft risk retention regulatory technical...more
The European Banking Authority recently published its final draft of the regulatory technical standards in relation to risk retention under the EU Securitisation Regulation. This LawFlash covers some of the key aspects of...more
On 12 April 2022, the European Banking Authority (the "EBA") announced the publication of its long awaited final draft of the risk retention RTS (the "Final Draft RTS"). The EBA's mandate for this RTS is derived from Article...more
The European Banking Authority is consulting on draft Regulatory Technical Standards to amend the existing RTS on strong customer authentication and common and secure open standards of communication under the EU Payment...more
What is it? The EU has finalised and issued a new framework for the prudential regulation of investment firms. It will set new classification for investment firms that will in turn determine which of the new capital...more
The European Banking Authority has published draft Implementing Technical Standards for supervisory reporting, which make changes to the existing reporting obligations of EU banks (credit institutions) and investment firms....more
On June 13, 2018, the European Banking Association (“EBA“) published a consultation paper (EBA/CP/2018/09) on draft guidelines on the conditions to be met to benefit from an exemption from contingency measures under Article...more
The Situation: The second EU Payment Services Directive requires banks to give third-party payment service providers ("TPPs") access to the bank accounts of their customers (with their consent), in order to enable TPPs to...more
Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on Content and Format of the STS Notification - Regulation (EU) 2017/2402, which lays down a general framework for securitisation and creates a specific framework for simple,...more
The European Banking Authority (“EBA“) has published a letter (dated February 13, 2018) from Olivier Guersent (European Commission Director-General, DG FISMA) to Andrea Enria (EBA Chairman) that relates to the regulatory...more
The European Banking Authority has launched a consultation on the draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the methods of prudential consolidation under the Capital Requirements Regulation. The CRR provides that banks,...more
On December 14, 2016, the European Banking Authority (“EBA“) published the regulatory technical final draft on passport notifications under the revised Payment Services Directive ((EU) 2015/2366) (“PSD2“) (EBA/RTS/2016/08). ...more
On 11 July 2016, the European Banking Authority (“EBA”) published a draft of its second Report on the monitoring of Additional Tier 1 (“AT1”) instruments of EU institutions. The Report was undertaken pursuant to Article 80...more