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Article

19 February 2020
Position paper of the Association of German Banks on capital markets union 2020

In its position paper, the banking association makes eight concrete proposals for deepening capital markets union.

Comments

17 January 2020
EBA Consultation on Disclousure Pillar III

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a consultation in October 2019 on a new comprehensive technical implementation standard (ITS) for ...

Citation

14 January 2020
Ossig: Banks want to play a key role on the road to a climate-friendly society

"For sustainable investments, we need appropriate framework conditions and not even more bureaucracy", said Christian Ossig to the investment programme ...

Press release

13 January 2020
Ossig: “Negative interest rates hit banks and customers alike”

“We welcome the ECB’s plan to review its monetary policy strategy this year,” said Chief Executive Christian Ossig at ...

Article

13 January 2020
Strategy review of the European Central Bank

The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to review its monetary policy strategy. The Association of German Banks welcomes this project ...

Comments

27 December 2019
GBIC Comments on the implementation of the final Basel III reform into EU law

GBIC has answered the European Commission’s consultation on implementing the final Basel III reforms into EU law.

Citation

18 December 2019
Finance climate protection – use market forces

“As important as sustainable finance is to the private banks, our hopes have unfortunately not been fulfilled," said Christian Ossig.

Article

17 December 2019
Outsourcing Guidelines

These guidelines are a follow-up to our 2018 position paper “Banks and Fintechs: The Case for Outsourcing”, in which we ...

Article

29 November 2019
The Association of German Banks says “no” to violence against women

According to the United Nations, violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most widespread human rights ...

Comments

28 November 2019
Position paper of DK and several German associations on the Proposal for a Directive ..

Together with the leading associations of the German economy, GBIC has published a position paper on the current Council text ...

Comments

28 November 2019
Comments on EBA discussion paper on a STS framework for synthetic securitisations

German Banking Industry Committee and True Sale International are supporting a STS framework for synthetic securitisations in their joint comments ...

Citation

27 November 2019
Krautscheid: Strengthen Europe’s sovereignty, complete the single European financial ..

The new European Commission faces the testing challenge of holding Europe together and moving it forward in an environment that ...

Comments

11 November 2019
Commission targeted consultation document: Alternative Standardised Approach for Mark ..

The German banking industry committee (GBIC) comments on the consultation paper of the EU Commission. GBIC answers EU-KOM’s questions ...

Citation

6 November 2019
Peters: Europe needs a strong single financial market

It’s gratifying to see movement in the discussion about deepening the single European financial market.

Article

30 October 2019
German banks say: The economy needs a programmable digital euro!

Following the debate on Facebook’s “Libra” currency, German banks say: The economy needs a programmable digital euro!

Blog article

30 October 2019
Beyond Libra: casting off the spectator role with the digital euro

The heated debate about Facebook’s plans to launch a digital currency called Libra is due to two fundamental perceptions ...

Comments

30 October 2019
Comments on EBA Draft guidelines on the determination of the weighted average maturit ..

Guidelines on the determination of the weighted average maturity (WAM) of contractual payments due under the tranche.

Comments

23 October 2019
German Banking industry committee (GBIC) on the Proposal for a Directive on represent ..

The German banking industry committee has commented on the directive proposal and the amendments proposed by the Finnish Council Presidency.

Press release

19 October 2019
IMF/World Bank Annual Meetings: banking association president Peters sees no global r ..

The private banks are expecting global growth to slow down to around 3% in 2019. “That would be a good ...

Publication

10 October 2019
Companies under attack: cybercrime

Companies are increasingly being targeted by cybercriminals. This new type of fraud, referred to collectively as ‘social engineering’, is not ...

Comments

2 October 2019
EBA Guidelines on loan origination and monitoring

GBIC has responded to EBA‘s draft guidelines on loan origination and monitoring.

Blog article

12 September 2019
Three questions to Association of German Banks’ president Hans-Walter Peters

Three answers from Association of German Banks’ president Hans-Walter Peters to the ECB decision.

Citation

12 September 2019
Peters: ECB accelerating in a dead end

“The current package of ECB measures is based on false expectations,” said Hans-Walter Peters, the Association of German Banks’ president.

Publication

5 September 2019
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