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Edwin Sanders (Rabobank) has been appointed as an EBA Board member. As representative of the Dutch community, he is taking over from Han Joosten (Rabobank). Edwin’s appointment takes effect today, 6 September. EBA Chairman, Wolfgang Ehrmann, thanked Han Joosten for his great support of the Association’s activities and welcomed Edwin Sanders to his new position.

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) released a new report providing insight into the financial needs of corporates. The report explores the role of transaction banks and how application programming interface (API) technology could provide a viable solution for handling real-time and on-demand access to data and enable the digitisation of workflows as well as the…

The report by the EBA Digital Currency & Smart Payments Working Group aims to help banks and other supervised intermediaries prepare their organisation for the potential introduction of the digital euro.   Read press release Download the report Download the fact sheet Request login to the EBA Member Portal  

At the EBA Annual General Meeting 2023, EBA Board members Nicola Coyne (Barclays Bank Plc), Philippe Debrue (Belfius Bank), Annika Osolanus (Nordea Bank) and Serge Wagener (Banque et Caisse d‘Epargne de l’Etat) were re-elected for another three-year term. Ronan Mauguen (Crédit Mutual ARKEA) was newly elected to represent the French community, taking over from François-Xavier Nivoit (HSBC Continental Europe).    

Download the Report of the Board to learn more about the EBA’s activities in 2022.

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) today issued version 4.0 of the EBA Fraud Taxonomy, which will take effect on 1 January 2024. The taxonomy equips fraud fighters with a standardised vocabulary and approach for harmonising the categories they use for the description of fraud types. It has been developed by the Association’s Expert Group on…

IBAN-name checks can help to increase the attractiveness of instant payments within the EU, notably by increasing trust in the new mode of payment. But in order to effectively combat attempts at fraud and to bring about greater acceptance of instant payments Europe-wide, they need to be supplemented by further measures. The study “IBAN-name check: Current…

Among other updates, new sections on the Digital Operations Resilience Act (DORA), Guidelines on Outsourcing, and the Cyber Risk Institute Profile were added to the Cyber Regulation E-Repository. The e-repository provides EBA members with easily digestible recaps of relevant cyber regulations and can be accessed here.

The Euro Banking Association (EBA) released recommendations on data verification for corporate-to-bank KYC in low-risk situations. Issued as a follow-up on its EBA Common Baseline Classification Standard (CBCS) released in April 2022, this new publication proposes a harmonised approach to corporate data collection and verification in know-your-customer (KYC) processes. Read press release Download EBA CBCS –…