{"id":23028910,"date":"2025-12-11T11:43:06","date_gmt":"2025-12-11T10:43:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/?p=23028910"},"modified":"2025-12-11T12:49:23","modified_gmt":"2025-12-11T11:49:23","slug":"ecb-plans-for-simplification-and-increasing-efficiency-in-banking-supervision","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fma.gv.at\/en\/ecb-plans-for-simplification-and-increasing-efficiency-in-banking-supervision\/","title":{"rendered":"ECB plans for simplification and increasing efficiency in banking supervision."},"content":{"rendered":"<?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The European Central Bank (ECB) presented its <strong>plans for simplification and increasing efficiency<\/strong> for banking supervision today. The High-Level Task Force on Simplification&rsquo;s recommendations emphasise the intention &ldquo;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/pr\/date\/2025\/html\/ecb.pr251211~aa5c9271b8.en.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">to simplify the framework, while maintaining the resilience of the European banking system<\/a>&rdquo;. The recommendations include simplifying the risk-weighted and leverage ratio framework and introducing a simpler prudential regime for smaller banks building on existing rules on proportionality.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu\/ecb\/pub\/html\/ssm.streamlining_supervision202512.en.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECB Supervisory Board (SSM)&rsquo;s plans<\/a> pursue three main objectives: increasing efficiency in operational supervision, ensuring the effectiveness of supervisory measures, and focusing on relevant risks.<\/p><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>These reports can be downloaded from the ECB website:<\/strong><\/p><ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>ECB Governing Council Press Release: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/pr\/date\/2025\/html\/ecb.pr251211~aa5c9271b8.en.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ECB Governing Council proposes simplification of EU banking rules<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>ECB Governing Council Recommendations: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ecb.europa.eu\/press\/pubbydate\/2025\/html\/ecb.simplification_supervisory_reporting_framework202512.en.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Simplification of the European prudential regulatory, supervisory and reporting framework<\/a><\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Report by ECB Banking Supervision: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bankingsupervision.europa.eu\/ecb\/pub\/html\/ssm.streamlining_supervision202512.en.html\" class=\"external\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Streamlining supervision, safeguarding resilience<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recommendations and measures by the ECB Supervisory Board and the ECB Governing Council Task Force<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":10924201,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[80],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23028910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-press-release"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.8 - 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