European Banking Authority

European Union (EU).

(EBA).

The EBA's responsibilities include:

• Ensuring effective and consistent prudential regulation and supervision across the European banking sector.
• Maintaining financial stability in the EU.
• Safeguarding the integrity, efficiency and orderly functioning of the banking sector.
• Contributing to the creation of a European Single Rulebook in banking whose objective is to provide a single set of harmonised prudential rules for financial institutions throughout the EU.
• Promoting convergence of supervisory practices.
• Assessing risks and vulnerabilities in the EU banking sector.

The European Banking Authority was established in 2011 as the successor to the former Committee of European Banking Supervisors.

See also

• AMC
• Bank of England (BoE)
• Bank supervision
• Basel III
• Capital adequacy
• European Central Bank (ECB)
• European Insurance and Occupational Pensions Authority (EIOPA)
• European Securities and Markets Authority (ESMA)
• European Supervisory Authority (ESA)
• European Union (EU)
• Euro zone
• Federal Reserve System (FRS)
• Financial institution
• Home supervisor
• Host supervisor
• Internal Market
• Prudential regulation
• Prudential Regulation Authority (PRA)
• Regulation
• Supervision
• Supervisory college

External link

• European Banking Authority - about us