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November 27 2023

Comments regarding the European Commission's consultation exercise "rationalisation of reporting...

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.

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September 26 2023

DK Comments on Post-implementation Review IFRS 9 Financial Instruments Impairment

The German Banking Industry Committee welcomes the “Post-implementation Review IFRS 9 Financial Instruments Impairment” and notes that the implementation of the impairment rules of IFRS 9 has been a very high effort for the banks. In many banks, IFRS...

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June 17 2019

IASB Exposure Draft ED/2019/1 Bechmark Reform

IASB proposes changes to IAS 39 and IFRS 9 due to possible effects of the IBOR reform. GBIC basically agrees with the proposals but advocates also for reliefs concerning retrospective effectiveness testing and dynamic hedging according to IAS 39.

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March 13 2019

Comments on Revisions to leverage ratio disclosure requirements

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...

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May 25 2018

EFRAG Discussion Paper Equity instruments – Impairment and Recycling

EFRAG has published a discussion paper where alternative rules for accounting of equity instruments according to IFRS 9 (FV-OCI) are discussed ...

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October 25 2016

EBA guidelines to expected credit lossess

In July 2016, the EBA (European Banking Authority) issued draft guidelines on credit risk management practices and accounting for expected losses.

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July 22 2016

German Banking Industry Committee and Austrian Economic Chambers: Position paper on the...

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.

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July 7 2016

Comments on the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision’s consultative document on revisions to the...

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

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February 25 2016

New GBIC expert opinion: leverage ratio sets serious perverse incentives

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...

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April 10 2013

Comments by the German Banking Industry Committee on the Exposure Draft "Classification and...

With this Exposure Draft, the IASB has picked up on various points of criticism regarding the already finalised IFRS 9 (2009/2010). The key change is the proposed introduction of the FVTOCI category. The IASB has stated that such a category would...

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