Press releases / Comments

February 28 2022

The German Banking Industry Committee commented on EU Commission’s consultation on an EU Listing Act on February 11, 2022.

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 ...

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 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.

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 17 2013

The German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC), known domestically as Die Deutsche Kreditwirtschaft, supports the European Commission in its endeavour to increase financial market stability. Stable financial markets are of vital interest to the banking...

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...