EBI Regulatory Report #204

EBI Report
on
Economic Policy and Financial Regulation Measures:
International, EU and Euro Area Levels
(31 January 2025)

Professor Dr. Christos V. Gortsos and Daphne Farmaki
(Law School, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)

All previous entries have been put in 4 archives, which can be retrieved here.

Main developments during the week 27 January  – 31 January 2025:

31 January
  • ECB/Eurosystem: Decisions taken by the Governing Council of the ECB (in addition to decisions setting interest rates)
  • ECB: selection of motifs for future euro banknotes
  • ECB and ESRB: Joint Report on experiences of using the countercyclical capital buffer early in the cycle
  • Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2025/212 of 13 September 2024 correcting Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2017/2055 supplementing Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to RTSs for the cooperation and exchange of information between competent authorities relating to the exercise of the right of establishment and the freedom to provide services of payment institutions (OJ L, 2025/212, 31.1.2025)
  • ECB/SSM: FAQs on Initial Margin model approvals under EMIR 3
  • ESMA: Guidance on MiCA best practices
  • ESMA: publication of data for quarterly bond liquidity assessment
30 January
  • ECB/Eurosystem: Monetary policy decisions
29 January
  • Commission: An EU Compass to regain competitiveness and secure sustainable prosperity
  • Commission: Annual Single Market and Competitiveness Report highlights challenges and opportunities to EU competitiveness
28 January
  • ECB/Eurosystem: Decision ECB/2025/2 on access by non-bank payment service providers to Eurosystem central bank operated payment systems and central bank accounts
  • Financial Stability Institute (FSI, at BIS): 2024 in Review
  • ESMA: Euribor Panel to include Finland’s OP Corporate Bank and the National Bank of Greece
27 January
  • ESRB: response to the ESMA consultation on the conditions of the Active Account Requirement following the review of the EMIR