EBA has published a discussion paper to facilitate the review of the standardised NPL data templates.

The current revision of the template is based on the user experience and feedback from various market participants and responds to the European Commission’s Communication on tackling NPLs in the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic (December 2020) that, amongst others, requests the EBA to review the templates based on a consultation with market participants in the course of 2021. With this consultation, the EBA opens a discussion with market participants a number of aspects of the templates such as the design, data fields to be included, as well as their criticality and availability. The objective of this revision is to make these voluntary data templates simpler, more proportionate and more effective and make them available to all market participants by the end of 2021.  This will enable price discovery in a consistent way across the single market.

The consultation runs until 31 August 2021.

On the Official Journal of the European Union have been published the latest acts of the European Central Bank related to the systemically important payment systems:

  • Regulation (EU) 2021/728 amending Regulation (EU) No 795/2014 on oversight requirements for systemically important payment systems;
  • Decision (EU) 2021/729 amending Decision (EU) 2017/2098 on procedural aspects concerning the imposition of corrective measures for non-compliance with Regulation (EU) No 795/2014;
  • Decision (EU) 2021/730 amending Decision (EU) 2019/1349 on the procedure and conditions for exercise by a competent authority of certain powers in relation to oversight of systemically important payment systems.