European banking union

Press release - EP President Metsola at EUCO: The Single Market is Europe’s greatest economic driver

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Doubling down on the Single Market ensures Europe’s long-term competitiveness, prosperity and leadership on the global stage, said President Metsola at the Special European Council. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

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Doubling down on the Single Market ensures Europe’s long-term competitiveness, prosperity and leadership on the global stage, said President Metsola at the Special European Council. Source : © European Union, 2024 - EP

Feedback on the input provided by the European Parliament as part of its resolution on the ECB’s Annual Report 2022

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Thursday, April 18, 2024

Beyond managing related risks, the financial sector can also contribute to the transition toward a net-zero economy.

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  • Beyond managing related risks, the financial sector can also contribute to the transition toward a net-zero economy.
  • Our work aims to enhance data transparency in climate change analysis, while informing monetary policy, financial stability and banking supervision.
  • The indicators we have developed focus on the euro area financial sector and are built from harmonised granular datasets.

Philip R. Lane: Interview with Corriere della Sera

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Friday, January 19, 2024

Bank market power, both in the loan and deposit market, has important implications for credit provision and for financial stability.

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  • Bank market power, both in the loan and deposit market, has important implications for credit provision and for financial stability.
  • This article discusses these issues through the lens of a simple theoretical framework.

EQS-News: Results of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG for the first half of 2023: solid corporate customer business in a demanding environment

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Tuesday, August 22, 2023

Results of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG for the first half of 2023: solid corporate customer business in a demanding environment

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  • Results of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG for the first half of 2023: solid corporate customer business in a demanding environment
    The issuer is solely responsible for the content of this announcement.
  • Results of IKB Deutsche Industriebank AG for the first half of 2023:
    Cost/income ratio (CIR) of 66% (normalised: 57%)
    Dr Michael Wiedmann, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of IKB: "Business with our mid-cap corporate customers developed well in the first half of 2023.
  • [Düsseldorf, 18 August 2023] In the first half of 2023, IKB improved its key earnings figures in a challenging market environment.
  • "We took advantage of our strengths in the mid-cap corporate customer business in the first half of 2023.

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-March 2023

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Friday, August 4, 2023

The quarterly data provide information required to analyse the EU banking sector and comprise a subset of the information that is available in the year-end dataset.

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  • The quarterly data provide information required to analyse the EU banking sector and comprise a subset of the information that is available in the year-end dataset.
  • The data cover 316 banking groups and 2369 stand-alone credit institutions operating in the EU (including foreign subsidiaries and branches), accounting for nearly 100% of the EU banking sector’s balance sheet.
  • In addition to data as at end-March 2023, the published figures also include a few revisions to past data.
  • Notes
    - These consolidated banking data are available in the ECB Data Portal.

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-December 2022

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Friday, June 23, 2023

These annual data provide information required to analyse the EU banking sector and are broader in scope than the standard quarterly releases.

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  • These annual data provide information required to analyse the EU banking sector and are broader in scope than the standard quarterly releases.
  • The data cover 314 banking groups and 2,375 stand-alone credit institutions operating in the EU (including foreign subsidiaries and branches), accounting for nearly 100% of the EU banking sector’s balance sheet.
  • In addition to data as at end-December 2022, the published figures also include a few revisions to past data.
  • Notes
    - These consolidated banking data are available in the ECB’s Statistical Data Warehouse.

EBA notes EU wide consistent implementation of 2022 priorities in supervisory work programmes and further improvements in the functioning of supervisory colleges but calls for more attention in some areas

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Friday, May 5, 2023

04 May 2023

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  • 04 May 2023
    The European Banking Authority (EBA) today published its annual Report on convergence of supervisory practices for 2022.
  • ICT security and outsourcing risks are followed closely by competent authorities and supervisory colleges, and weaknesses identified need close supervisory attention as they are still considered as high.
  • The EBA then assesses whether and how the selected topics are covered in competent authorities’ supervisory priorities and activities, including the SREP and in the context of supervisory colleges.
  • In addition, it is the EBA`s common practice to integrate the results of the monitoring activities in its policy work and training activities.

EBA publishes Handbook on data submission for supervisory benchmarking

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Thursday, March 16, 2023

16 March 2023

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  • 16 March 2023
    The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today a Handbook on supervisory benchmarking of internal models.
  • The Handbook is an online tool that provides guidance and links to relevant documents and information for the supervisory benchmarking to facilitate their accessibility.
  • With the publication of the Handbook, Q&As for supervisory benchmarking will no longer be included in the Single Rulebook Q&A tool.
  • Furthermore, a new Q&A submission form for supervisory benchmarking Q&As has been created and is available on the webpage of the handbook.

ECB publishes consolidated banking data for end-September 2022

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Monday, February 20, 2023

The quarterly data cover the information required to analyse the EU banking sector and comprise a subset of the information that is available in the year-end dataset.

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  • The quarterly data cover the information required to analyse the EU banking sector and comprise a subset of the information that is available in the year-end dataset.
  • The end-September 2022 data refer to 311 banking groups and 2396 stand-alone credit institutions operating in the EU (including foreign subsidiaries and branches), covering nearly 100% of the EU banking sector’s balance sheet.
  • Some revisions to past data are disclosed together with the end-September 2022 data.
  • Notes
    - The consolidated banking data are available in the ECB Statistical Data Warehouse.