Establishing a European green bond standard (‘EUGBS’) was an action in the Commission’s 2018 action plan on financing sustainable growth and is part of the European Green Deal.
The European Commission adopted its proposal for a EUGBS in July 2021 and later launched a public consultation. In this context, ESBG has recently finalised a position paper that indicated some of the main concerns with the adopted proposal.
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October 6, 2022
ESBG keeps a close eye on prudential treatment of crypto assets
On 30 September 2022, ESBG responded to the second public consultation of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (BCBS) on...
October 5, 2022
Joint letter to Commissioner McGuiness on the EFRAG consultation regarding its first set of draft ESRSs
On 27 September, the ESBG, together with the European Banking Federation (EBF), the European Association of Co-operative Banks (EACB), Insurance Europe, Accountancy Europe, Business Europe and…
September 27, 2022
ESBG Event
Promoting financial education among women and highlighting the need to focus a few more efforts in improving female financial literacy
September 12, 2022
New taxes on banks can affect economic growth
The European Savings and Retail Banking Group considers that the recent decision in some EU countries to impose new windfall taxes on the banking sector will further reduce the latter’s lending…
September 9, 2022
ESBG response to the EFRAG consultation on its first set of draft ESRSs calls to ensure levelled global playing field
In its response to the European Financial Reporting Advisory Group (EFRAG) public consultation on the first set of Draft EU Sustainability Reporting Standards (ESRSs), the European Savings and Retail…
September 7, 2022
EU Taxonomy minimum safeguards: Criteria for the application of external checks should be further defined
The European Savings and Retail Banking Group submitted its final response to the Platform for Sustainable Finance (PSF) consultation on its draft report on minimum safeguards (MS). In its response,…
September 6, 2022
New taxes on banks can affect economic growth
September 6, 2022
Reducing the scope of the EBA NPLs data templates
ESBG responded to the EBA consultation on the draft non-performing loans (NPL) transaction data templates, which seek to improve the functioning of secondary markets for NPLs.
August 22, 2022
FATF revision of Recommendation 25
The Financial Action Task Force (FATF) aims to better meet its objective of preventing the misuse of legal arrangements for money laundering and terrorist financing (ML/TF) and therefore conducts a…
August 10, 2022
State Aid rules for banks in difficulty
The European Savings and Retail Banking Group (ESBG) welcomes the initiative of the European Commission to launch a targeted consultation aiming at reviewing the State Aid rules for banks in…
