Press releases / Comments

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...

June 20 2018

On March 22, 2018, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision issued the “Revisions to the minimum capital requirements for market risk” for consultation ...

March 9 2018

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) comments the Key financial information in the summary on ESMA’s Response form for the Consultation Paper on draft RTS under the new Prospectus Regulation ...

August 10 2016

The consultation paper mentions, that the EBA has no specific mandate to elaborate Guidelines on the LCR or on liquidity risk in general terms.

June 3 2016

In autumn 2015, the BCBS announced that it would withdraw the AMA for operational risk. It stated that the rationale for dropping the AMA would be explained in the BCBS’s new consultative document. In our view, however, the consultative document does...

July 8 2013

The German Banking Industry Committee welcomes the proposed expected credit loss approach submitted by the IASB which fundamentally addresses the widely criticised shortcomings of the incurred loss model. In this regard, we support the IASB’s credit...

April 10 2013

With this Exposure Draft, the IASB has picked up on various points of criticism regarding the already finalised IFRS 9 (2009/2010). The key change is the proposed introduction of the FVTOCI category. The IASB has stated that such a category would...