The Bundesverband deutscher Banken (Association of German Banks), the voice of the
private commercial banks in Germany, was founded in Cologne in 1951.
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The association informs its members about current political and economic developments
affecting the banking sector. In view of the increasing number of European directives,
national laws and amendments to laws, as well as regulations, this task is steadily growing in importance.
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The primary goal of the negotiations between the United Kingdom (UK) and the European Union (EU) shall be to ensure market and financial stability as well as a close relationship, which is beneficial for the society and economy on both ...
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The proposed changes (phase 2 of the IASB project) are intended to mitigate the effects that replacing an existing reference interest rate with an alternative interest rate will have on financial reporting at the time of the replacement.
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GBIC has answered the European Central Bank consultation on changes to Regulation (EU) No 1409/2013 of 28 November 2013 concerning payments statistics.
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Digital currency is a hugely important topic for the German Banking Industry Committee (GBIC) for a number of reasons. Firstly, a rapidly growing number of companies are looking at the integration of distributed ledger technology (DLT) into their production and ...
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The European Commission presented its "Roadmap towards a new comprehensive approach to preventing and combating money laundering and terrorism financing". The Banking Association participates in the discussion on how to optimise the current regulatory instruments to prevent money laundering and ...
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) has published the draft of the revised Implementation Standard (ITS) for the annual benchmarking exercise according to Art. 78 CRD IV in December 2019.
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The European Union’s equivalence regime has been a focus of discussion in the recent past. The Association of German Banks would like to contribute to the debate with the following recommendations.
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GBIC has answered the European Banking Authority's (EBA) consultation on technical implementation standard (ITS) on disclosure and reporting of MREL and TLAC.
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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched a consultation in October 2019 on a new comprehensive technical implementation standard (ITS) for disclosure.
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The European Central Bank (ECB) wants to review its monetary policy strategy. The Association of German Banks welcomes this project. Our position paper is intended to make a constructive contribution to the public debate.
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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 described the importance and the challenges of cooperation between banks and fintechs.
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According to the United Nations, violence against women and girls is one of the world’s most widespread human rights violations – in both the public and private sphere. One in three women and girls will experience physical and/or sexual ...
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Together with the leading associations of the German economy, GBIC has published a position paper on the current Council text of the Finnish Council Presidency on the directive on representative actions for the protection of the collective interests of consumers.
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German Banking Industry Committee and True Sale International are supporting a STS framework for synthetic securitisations in their joint comments on the EBA discussion paper.
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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 selected topics of the FRTB standardised approach for market risk, in particular on the calculation of capital requirements for ...
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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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