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This first ECON scrutiny session continues the ECON’s discussions on CRD/CRR during the previous legislature and covers in particular the delegated act on market risk (C(2019) 9068). In addition, two forthcoming regulatory technical standards (RTS) are discussed, namely the RTS on mapping of derivative transactions on which the EBA has finalised its draft (EBA-RTS-2019-02), and the RTS on criteria to define managerial responsibility and control functions on which the EBA has started a consultation ...

This note is mainly based on documents published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on 7 December 2017 under the header Finalising Basel III post-crisis reforms, namely the High-level summary of Basel III reforms and the full text of the reforms. EGOV has previously published a briefing specifically on the role of the BCBS.

This note presents the summaries of two papers requested in June 2017 by the ECON Committee to external authors on “Feasibility check: transition to a new regime for banks’ sovereign exposure”. It also presents some relevant EU institutions’ position on the subject.

One of the proposals from the 2016 banking reform package, dealing with the ranking of unsecured debt instruments in insolvency hierarchy, is due to be voted during the November II plenary.

The legislative proposal regarding transitional arrangements for mitigating the impact of international financial reporting standard (IFRS) 9 on financial institutions' regulatory capital is scheduled to be voted in the November II plenary session. These arrangements should enter into force before the start of the mandatory application of IFRS 9, on 1 January 2018. Therefore, the European Parliament and the Council had agreed to adopt them using a rapid procedure.

The European System of Financial Supervision (ESFS) is a multi-layered system of micro- and macro-prudential authorities, which includes the European Systemic Risk Board, the three European Supervisory Authorities and the national supervisors. The ESFS aims at ensuring consistent and coherent financial supervision in the EU. This supervisory system is undergoing changes further to the introduction of the Banking Union and the withdrawal of the United Kingdom from the EU.

Financial services regulation and supervision in the EU has received great attention during the global financial crisis. In the post-crisis period, the EU undertook a major overhaul of its financial services policy in order to bring back stability and confidence in the financial system. More than 40 new measures have been proposed in recent years, driven by initiatives such as the Banking Union and Capital Markets Union. The reform of the financial sector is still an ongoing process.

This note provides a summary of 4 expert papers assessing the role of precautionary recapitalisation in the Banking Union.

This briefing drafted under supervision of the Economic Governance Support Unit reviews the options for a separation of non-performing and other problematic assets from the main business of a bank. This separation is essential for bank rehabilitation, though secondary loan markets are illiquid, and plagued by problems in valuation and information sharing. Independent asset management companies are therefore needed, in particular as a tool in resolution. The legal framework for such institutions should ...

This paper drafted under supervision of the Economic Governance Support Unit considers a number of issues related to the restructuring of troubled banks in the EU. First, we provide an overview of how legacy assets have been dealt in a number of countries (drawing in particular upon the experience in Japan, the USA, Sweden and Spain), which support the case for a centralized solution in the presence of a generalized banking crisis. Second, we shed light on the need to differentiate between systemic ...