Press releases / Comments

October 11 2023

The European Central Bank (ECB) launched a public consultation in July 2023 on its Guide on effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting.

August 30 2023

The European Commission presented a proposal for a retail investment strategy (RIS) which, among other things, provides for an amendment of the European Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID). The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC)...

May 23 2019

The 10-point agenda was discussed today during the 4th round of the Italian-German Dialogue on Financial Services between the Italian Banking Insurance and Finance Federation (FeBAF, to whom 13 financial associations in Italy adhere) and the DK (...

March 13 2019

The Basel Committee’s additional leverage ratio disclosure requirements are designed to reflect its concerns about “window-dressing”. The Basel Committee would like to see averaged values disclosed on the basis of values calculated daily. In the view...

November 7 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the draft ECB guide to internal models – Risk-type-specific chapters issued for public consultation on 7 September 2018.

June 21 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (DK) commented on the planned amendment of MiFID II ...

May 28 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the draft ECB guide to internal models – General topics chapter as part of the ECB's public consultation ...

May 14 2018

Comments of the German Banking Industry Committee on the Draft Commission Implementing Regulation laying down minimum requirements implementing the provisions of Directive 2007/36/EC of the European Parliament and the Council as regards shareholders...

May 14 2018

On 12 March 2018, the European Commission published two legislative proposals to remove obstacles to the cross-border distribution of investment funds and asked for feedback.

May 4 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the ECB’s Public consultation on the draft ECB Guide to the internal liquidity adequacy assessment processes (ILAAP) ...

November 25 2016

ECB published the Draft AnaCredit Reporting Manual Part II Datasets and Data Attributes.

October 24 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) took part in the consultation of the European Commission on the review of the EU macro-Prudential policy framework. The consultation took place to gather feedback and evidence on whether the existing EU...

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...

August 17 2016

AnaCredit is a project to set up a dataset containing detailed information on individual bank loans in the euro area, harmonised across all Member States. The data collection is scheduled to start in September 2018. In view of the large number of...

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 sentence “In particular, the ECB will consider the factors set out under paragraph 4 of this Chapter” should be dropped from subparagraphs 1 and 2 of Chapter 3.1. Liquidity waiver requirements under Article 8 of the CRR are irrelevant to the...