EU Guidelines On Limiting Exposures To Shadow Banking Entities Published

On December 15, 2015, the European Banking Authority published final Guidelines on requirements for banks and certain investment firms to have sufficient information about, and to set limits on, their individual and aggregate exposure to shadow banking entities which carry out certain banking-like activities, such as lending, outside a regulated framework. The EBA is mandated to produce the Guidelines under the Capital Requirements Regulation which limits the exposure a firm can have to a single client or group of connected clients (more generally known as limits to large exposures). In order to prepare the Guidelines, the EBA collected data from 148 EU firms on their exposures to shadow banking entities, the results of which are published in a separate report. Both the Report and the Guidelines will help inform the European Commission's report on the appropriateness and impact of imposing such limits, which may be accompanied by a legislative proposal. The EBA