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.

October 30 2019

Guidelines on the determination of the weighted average maturity (WAM) of contractual payments due under the tranche.

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...

March 20 2018

EBA has consulted a regulatory technical standard (RTS) on the homogeneity of underlying exposures in securitisations, based on its mandate in the recently published STS-regulation. In order to benefit from less harsh capital requirements,...

March 20 2018

The European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA) consulted draft technical standards on disclosure requirements and operational standards under the Securitisation Regulation. Please find the comments of the German Banking Industry Committee on...

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.

April 19 2016

The EBA provides a guideline for the explanation of the normal market conditions and when a business is structured so that there is no credit support.

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...