Press releases / Comments

August 23 2020

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has issued its comments to the public consultation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on the technical amandment on capital treatment of securisations of non-performing loans (NPL). In...

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...

May 25 2018

The Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) issued on 27 February 2018 a consultative document on the updated Pillar 3 disclosure requirements framework ...

January 6 2017

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) has submitted comments on "ESMA Consultation Paper - Draft guidelines on MiFID II product governance requirements" (ESMA/2016/1436).

December 2 2016

The European Securities and Markets Authority ESMA consulted on technical standards under the Benchmarks Regulation. The German Banking Industry Committee contributed to the process and sent its comments to ESMA.

November 30 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) welcomes it that, under the new German presidency, the G20 aims to further strengthen the resilience of economies and financial markets in 2017 as well.

November 29 2016

Comments of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) on ESMA’s discussion paper – Draft RTS and IST under SFTR.

November 29 2016

Comments of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) on the consultative Report Harmonisation of critical OTC derivatives data elements (other than UTI and UPI) – second batch.

November 18 2016

The German Banking Industry is grateful for the opportunity to comment on ESMA ́s discussion paper on the trading obligation for derivatives under MiFIR.

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...

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...

October 12 2016

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) welcomes the EBA consultation paper and the opportunity offered to provide feedback on the future draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on strong customer authentication (SCA) and secure communication...

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...

September 15 2016

The member associations of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) warn that the ongoing Basel IV negotiations could place German banks at a considerable disadvantage.

September 14 2016

The member associations of the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) warn of considerable legal uncertainty surrounding the planned introduction of standardised European key information documents for packaged retail and insurance-based investment...

July 29 2016

The Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft participates on consultation of the European Banking Authority (EBA) for innovative usability of consumer data.

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.