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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Articles of Association

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By-laws of the Deposit Protection Fund valid from December 2018

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Against the backdrop of the new European Commission, the private banks underline that a Europe-wide home market is more important ...

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At a time when banks are reviewing their outsourcing models and deciding to bring many capabilities back in-house, one type ...

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GBIC stated against the backdrop of today’s announcement by the BaFin of transitional arrangements for the authentication of online ...