Position Paper

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

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

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

Press release

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

Position Paper

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.

Position Paper

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

Position Paper

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

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

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

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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 on …

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

Position Paper

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

Blog article

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

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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.

Press release

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

Publication

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.

Blog article

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.

Press release

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