Press releases / Comments

November 27 2023

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) welcomes the European Commission’s goal of a 25 percent reduction in the burden on companies and administrative organizations resulting from reporting requirements.

February 28 2022

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

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...

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 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 position paper by GBIC and WKO looks at individual aspects of the leverage ratio whose analysis is required under Article 511 of the CRR.

July 7 2016

The Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft give its opinion to Basels consultation documents for the definition of the Leverage Ratio. This definition is reworked on several places.

February 25 2016

A leverage ratio will not make the financial system more stable. On the contrary, an inflexible instrument of this kind sets dangerous perverse incentives. This is the conclusion of a new expert opinion commissioned by the member associations of the...

July 17 2013

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC), known domestically as Die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft, supports the European Commission in its endeavour to increase financial market stability. Stable financial markets are of vital interest to the banking...