EBA Publishes Single Rulebook Q&A Updates for May 2021
The EBA Single Rulebook question and answer (Q&A) tool updates for this month include answers to 19 questions. The answers address queries on supervisory reporting; credit risk; own funds; accounting and auditing; market risk; simple, transparent, and standardized securitization; covered bonds; leverage ratio; large exposures; and strong customer authentication and common and secure communication.
The overall objective of the Q&A tool is to ensure consistent and effective application of regulatory framework across the Single Market. Institutions, supervisors, and other stakeholders can use the Single Rulebook Q&A tool to submit questions on certain EU regulations and directives. These regulations and directives include the revised Capital Requirements Directive (CRD5) and Regulation (CRR2), the revised Bank Recovery and Resolution Directive (BRRD2), the Securitization Regulation, the Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive (DGSD), the Mortgage Credit Directive (MCD), the second Payment Services Directive (PSD 2), the Wire Transfer Regulation (WTR), and the Anti Money Laundering (AML) Directive, along with any related technical standards that EBA has developed and adopted.
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Keywords: Europe, EU, Banking, Single Rulebook, Q&A, Securitization, Reporting, Market Risk, Credit Risk, Large Exposures, Leverage Ratio, Basel, CRR2, EBA
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