Press releases / Comments

November 4 2016

The report by Esther de Lange, MEP and member of the European People’s Party, on the European Deposit Insurance Scheme is basically a step in the right direction in the view of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC). GBIC welcomes the fact that...

September 27 2016

It is our understanding that the draft guidelines are not intended as implementation in the EU of the first stage of the Basel Pillar 3 Review (BCBS 309). Instead, their purpose is merely to enable EU banks to reconcile existing CRR requirements with...

July 22 2016

The European Banking Authority (EBA) consulted the draft of a regulatory standard to disclosure of loaded and unloaded financial assets. Textual the draft is about the development of the already current guideline.

July 4 2016

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...

June 8 2016

We welcome the Basel Committee’s intention to review its disclosure requirements with the aim of enhancing the benefit of Pillar 3 reports to users. We also agree that it would make good sense to formalise and standardise the presentation of certain...

April 19 2016

Article 114 of the Treaty on the Functioning of the European Union (TFEU), cited by the European Commission as the basis for creating a European Deposit Insurance Scheme (EDIS), is not an adequate legal basis. This is the conclusion of a legal...