Europe and International

2015 Overview / Financing the French economy and SMEs

Funding SMEs is the top strategic priority for the French Banking Federation. French banks finance over one million French SMEs: they represent half of the credits mobilized (…)

The FBF welcomes the European Commission’s action plan to combat terrorism financing and urges it to remove the anonymity of pre-paid (…)

French banks are fully committed to the fight against terrorism financing (press release of 20 November 2015). In this regard, they welcome the action plan announced by the (…)

The implementation of the TLAC standard completes the measures in place to reinforce the robustness of systemic banks and renders the European (…)

The Financial Stability Board has issued its proposal for the TLAC (Total Loss Absorbing Capacity) standard for global systemically important banks. With the new standard, (…)

The FBF hosts the round table of the European Covered Bond Council on green bonds

The representatives of the main European banks were present as well as organizations involved in energy transition. The round table discussion was chaired by Bruno Deletré, (…)

Capital markets union: FBF Position – Conditions and proposals

Capital markets union: the conditions for its success

Relying on the strengths of financial-sector players To be successful, the CMU must take into account the strengths and specificities of the European economy financing, which (…)

2015: Major international challenges for the french banking model

Reform measures are still on the table of international regulators (Basel Committee on Banking Supervision and the Financial Stability Board) and laden with challenges, although (…)

A new regulatory framework

Three-Pillar architecture Single Banking Supervision The Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) places the European Central Bank (ECB) as the central prudential supervisor of (…)

The financing model is evolving

Out of total corporate financing of 1,356 billion as of the end of December 2014, the proportion of bank lending to market financing was 62%/38% (compared to 70%/30% at the (…)

New rules to strengthen transparency and security

Over the past five years, the European Union has adopted some twenty reforms to strengthen the security of the banking and financial system: the capital and liquidity requirements (…)

French and German business organisations warn about the negative impact of the FTT on financing and risk management of non-financial companies