Press releases / Comments

December 2 2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority ESMA consulted on technical standards under the Benchmarks Regulation. The German Banking Industry Committee contributed to the process and sent its comments to ESMA.

November 29 2016

Comments of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) on ESMA’s discussion paper – Draft RTS and IST under SFTR.

November 29 2016

Comments of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) on the consultative Report Harmonisation of critical OTC derivatives data elements (other than UTI and UPI) – second batch.

November 18 2016

The German Banking Industry is grateful for the opportunity to comment on ESMA ́s discussion paper on the trading obligation for derivatives under MiFIR.

September 27 2016

It is our understanding that the draft guidelines are not intended as implementation in the EU of the first stage of the Basel Pillar 3 Review (BCBS 309). Instead, their purpose is merely to enable EU banks to reconcile existing CRR requirements with...

September 15 2016

The member associations of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) warn that the ongoing Basel IV negotiations could place German banks at a considerable disadvantage.

September 14 2016

The member associations of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) warn of considerable legal uncertainty surrounding the planned introduction of standardised European key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment...

September 1 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) would like to take the reopened debate on creation of an optimal anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework as an opportunity to input its own experience and ideas.

August 10 2016

The consultation paper mentions, that the EBA has no specific mandate to elaborate Guidelines on the LCR or on liquidity risk in general terms.

July 22 2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) consulted the draft of a regulatory standard to disclosure of loaded and unloaded financial assets. Textual the draft is about the development of the already current guideline.

July 4 2016

In the area of supervisory reporting, there are already requirements in form of the EBA ITS on supervisory reporting on forbearance and non-performing exposures implemented at European level by Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 680/2014, in...

June 24 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC), made up of the five leading banking-sector associations, regrets the vote by the British people in favour of leaving the EU. The EU should now quickly establish clarity on how the Brexit negotiations are...

June 24 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC), made up of the five leading banking-sector associations, regrets the vote by the British people in favour of leaving the EU. The EU should now quickly establish clarity on how the Brexit negotiations are...

June 3 2016

In autumn 2015, the BCBS announced that it would withdraw the AMA for operational risk. It stated that the rationale for dropping the AMA would be explained in the BCBS’s new consultative document. In our view, however, the consultative document does...