Press releases / Comments

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)...

February 28 2022

The German Banking Industry Committee commented on EU Commission’s consultation on an EU Listing Act on February 11, 2022.

December 17 2020

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) participated in the public consultation of the European Commission on its draft Delegated Regulation establishing technical screening criteria for the first two environmental objectives of the EU Taxonomy...

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 28 2018

We generally welcome the principle of proportionality in the additional reporting obligations for non-performing exposures (NPEs) which is reflected by the separation according to Module 1 and 2. That being said, we believe that it is possible to...

June 21 2018

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

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.

January 6 2017

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has submitted comments on "ESMA Consultation Paper - Draft guidelines on MiFID II product governance requirements" (ESMA/2016/1436).

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 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...

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...