Press releases / Comments

October 11 2023

The European Central Bank (ECB) launched a public consultation in July 2023 on its Guide on effective risk data aggregation and risk reporting.

February 5 2021

GBIC welcomes, in general, EBA's commitment to establish a unified European framework with uniform definitions regarding the topic of ESG. From the point of view of GBIC, the principle of proportionality as a fundamental principle in Pillar II should...

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...

April 16 2019

The European Parliament today adopted the so-called ‘banking package’ broadly amending cornerstones of banking regulation.

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 30 2019

DK comments on the above-mentioned EBA consultation paper. The EBA changes the ITS requirements in both the credit risk and market risk areas. The exercise is relevant for institutions with IRB models or IMA models (market risk models) in Pillar I.

November 7 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the draft ECB guide to internal models – Risk-type-specific chapters issued for public consultation on 7 September 2018.

May 28 2018

One of the aims of the general approach adopted by the EU Council today to what is referred to as the “Banking Package” (CRR II / CRD V) is to tighten the own funds requirements ...

May 28 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the draft ECB guide to internal models – General topics chapter as part of the ECB's public consultation ...

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.

May 4 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has commented on the ECB’s Public consultation on the draft ECB Guide to the internal liquidity adequacy assessment processes (ILAAP) ...

November 25 2016

ECB published the Draft AnaCredit Reporting Manual Part II Datasets and Data Attributes.

October 24 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) took part in the consultation of the European Commission on the review of the EU macro-Prudential policy framework. The consultation took place to gather feedback and evidence on whether the existing EU...

September 6 2016

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...

September 1 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) would like to take the reopened debate on creation of an optimal anti-money laundering and counter-terrorist financing (AML/CFT) framework as an opportunity to input its own experience and ideas.

August 31 2016

By end of 2016 the EU commission has to deliver a proposal in which form to implement the Net Stable Funding Ratio (NSFR) in the EU. The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) is pleased to present its priorities relating to this endeavour covering...

August 17 2016

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...

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.