EBA Amends Implementing Technical Standards On Benchmarking Of Internal Approaches Under CRD IV

On August 4, 2016, the European Banking Authority (EBA) published and submitted to the EU Commission an amended version of its Implementing Technical Standards (ITS) on benchmarking of internal approaches under Article 78(8) of the CRD IV Directive (which can be found in a zip file on the EBA’s website).

The EBA has amended the ITS for the purposes of running the 2017 benchmarking exercise. The amended ITS will assist competent authorities in their 2017 assessment of internal approaches both for credit risk, and for market risk. In a related press release, the EBA explains that, given the type of changes introduced in the instructions and templates, the relevant annexes are replaced in whole so that there is a consolidated version of the updated ITS package.