August 14 2023
First Comments on the EU Commission's Legislative Proposal on a digital Euro
On June 28th 2023, the European Commission published its legislative proposal for a digital Euro. While more technical aspects have been discussed so far, fundamental questions must now be answered.
MehrJune 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.
MehrMarch 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...
MehrNovember 28 2018
Comments on Draft Implementing Standards amending Implementing Regulation with regard to FINREP
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...
MehrMay 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 ...
MehrNovember 25 2016
Comments on ECB Draft AnaCredit Manual Part II
ECB published the Draft AnaCredit Reporting Manual Part II Datasets and Data Attributes.
MehrOctober 26 2016
Comments on the EBA guidelines to identify groups of connected clients
In July 2016, the European Banking Authority (EBA) issued draft guidelines for consultation on the treatment of connected clients under the large exposures regime. The objective is to revise the CEBS guidelines, which were published in 2011, in the...
MehrOctober 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.
MehrSeptember 6 2016
Position paper on adjustment of the European large exposure rules in the CRD/CRR review
The large exposure rules are currently being revised at European level. Firstly, the large exposures framework published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in April 2014 is to be implemented and, secondly, the European Commission is...
MehrAugust 17 2016
Comments on ECB Draft AnaCredit Manual
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...
MehrJuly 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.
MehrJuly 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.
MehrJuly 4 2016
BCBS Consultative Document
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...
MehrFebruary 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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