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Thomas Schlüter
Head of Media Relations
Tel: +49 (30) 1663 - 1230
Dr. Kerstin Altendorf
Tel: +49 30 1663-1250
Tanja Beller
Tel: +49 (30) 1663 - 1220
Sylvie Ernoult
Tel: +49 30 1663-1210
Juliane Weiß
Tel: +49 30 1663-1514
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Comments

22 May 2020
IASB Exposure Draft ED/2020/1 on Benchmark reform (Phase 2)

The proposed changes (phase 2 of the IASB project) are intended to mitigate the effects that replacing an existing reference ...

Comments

24 April 2020
Comments on amendments to the ECB Regulation on payments statistics

GBIC has answered the European Central Bank consultation on changes to Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 of 28 November 2013 ...

Press release

23 April 2020
Banking association President Zielke: Banks are needed to help solve the major crisis ..

The newly elected President of the Association of German Banks, Martin Zielke, has praised the swift and decisive action of ...

Press release

22 April 2020
Martin Zielke new banking association President

Handover of office at the Association of German Banks: Martin Zielke, Chairman of the Board of Managing Directors of Commerzbank ...

Citation

16 April 2020
Krautscheid: Changes to Libra are a renewed wake-up call for policymakers and central ..

Facebook today issued a new position paper announcing changes to its digital currency, Libra coin. Andreas Krautscheid, Chief Executive of ...

Comments

15 April 2020
Comments on Digital currencies

Digital currency is a hugely important topic for the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) for a number of reasons. Firstly ...

Publication

17 March 2020
By-laws of the Deposit Protection Fund of the Association of German Banks

By-laws of the Deposit Protection Fund valid from February 2020

Comments

13 March 2020
Comments on Basel’s discussion paper on designing a prudential treatment for crypto-a ..

The Association of German banks comments on the Basel discussion paper on designing a prudential treatment for crypto-assets.

Press release

12 March 2020
Peters takes a positive view of the package of measures adopted by European banking s ..

Association of German Banks President Hans-Walter Peters has described as positive above all the package of measures adopted today by ...

Press release

12 March 2020
President of the Association of German Banks calls for further measures to stabilise ..

In the face of the widening coronavirus crisis, Association of German Banks President Hans-Walter Peters has argued for concrete measures ...

Position Paper

9 March 2020
Anti-Money Laundering 4.0

The European Commission presented its "Roadmap towards a new comprehensive approach to preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing ...

Comments

5 March 2020
SRB Consultation Paper on changes to its MREL policy under the 2019 Banking Package

GBIC has answered the Single Resolution Board's (SRB) consultation on changes to its MREL policy.

Comments

3 March 2020
Comment letter to EBA benchmarking due to Article 78 CRD IV

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the draft of the revised Implementation Standard (ITS) for the annual benchmarking exercise ...

Position Paper

28 February 2020
Position paper on the EU’s equivalence regime

The European Union’s equivalence regime has been a focus of discussion in the recent past. The Association of German ...

Comments

24 February 2020
EBA Consultation Paper on ITS on disclosure and reporting of MREL and TLAC

GBIC has answered the European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultation on technical implementation standard (ITS) on disclosure and reporting of ...

Position Paper

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 ...

Position Paper

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.

Position Paper

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 ...

Position Paper

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 ...

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