46 Amendments of Lídia PEREIRA related to 2020/2122(INI)
Amendment 4 #
Motion for a resolution
Citation 32 a (new)
Citation 32 a (new)
— having regard to the paper entitled ‘Liquidity in resolution: comparing frameworks for liquidity provision across jurisdictions’ of the ECB’s Occasional Paper Series1a, _________________ 1aGrund, Sebastian, Nomm, Nele and Walch, Florian, ‘Liquidity in resolution: comparing frameworks for liquidity provision across jurisdictions’, Occasional Paper Series, No 251, ECB, Frankfurt am Main, December 2020, available at https://www.ecb.europa.eu/pub/pdf/scpops /ecb.op251~65a080c5b3.en.pdf
Amendment 14 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A
Recital A
A. whereas overall, the banking sector has responded to the COVID-19 pandemic with resilience, mostly founded on the regulatory reformsoverhaul enacted since the global financial crisis and further, facilitated by the single European Rulebook and Single Supervision in the Banking Union, and supported by extraordinary public policy relief measures and capital conservation practices;
Amendment 19 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A a (new)
Recital A a (new)
A a. whereas the Banking Union is open to all EU Member States; whereas Bulgaria and Croatia have joined ERM II and entered the Banking Union;
Amendment 21 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital A b (new)
Recital A b (new)
A b. whereas a more stable, competitive and convergent Economic and Monetary Union requires a solid Banking Union and a more developed and safe Capital Markets Union; whereas the completion of the Banking Union would be a vital contributor to the international perception of the euro and its increased role in global markets;
Amendment 27 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B
Recital B
B. whereas the completion of the Banking Union beyond its two pillars, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM) and the Singlexisting pillars remains a priority; whereas targeted reforms in the Rresolution Mechanism (SRM), is pendingand deposit insurance area to complete the Banking Union should further enhance the robustness of banks and safeguard overall financial stability;
Amendment 29 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B a (new)
Recital B a (new)
B a. whereas the backstop for the Single Resolution Fund (SRF) will be introduced by 2022, two years earlier than previously foreseen, providing a common system-wide safety net for banks in resolution;
Amendment 30 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B b (new)
Recital B b (new)
Amendment 31 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital B c (new)
Recital B c (new)
B c. whereas the shortcomings identified during the pandemic provide renewed impetus to move forward on improving crisis management, further integrating the banking sector, addressing the home-host balance and the regulatory treatment of sovereign exposures, as well as on the introduction of a European deposit insurance scheme; whereas embracing the lessons learned during the pandemic could pave the way for improved cost efficiency and more sustainable business models;
Amendment 33 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital C
Recital C
C. whereas the lack of a solution to the treatment of sovereign debt exposures and national options and discretionsbanks have been developing concentrated exposures toward certain sovereigns but a solution to the treatment of sovereign debt exposures is still to be addressed; whereas a number of national discretions within legislative framework persists, undermining the European dimension of the Banking Union;
Amendment 48 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D
Recital D
D. whereas climate change, environmental degradation and the transition to a low-carbon economy bring new risks to banks’ balance sheets; , potentially impacting investments across regions and sectors;
Amendment 51 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital D a (new)
Recital D a (new)
D a. whereas the urge for technological transformation has accelerated, increasing the efficiency of banks and their ambition for innovation, while exposing them at the same time to the new risks and challenges of the digital finance world, cybersecurity, reputational risks, data privacy, AML risks and consumer protection;
Amendment 53 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital E
Recital E
E. whereas, despite strong EU consumer protection varies across the Banking Unrules, national rules implementing European consumer protection requirements vary across the Banking Union, pointing to the need for harmonisation;
Amendment 60 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital F
Recital F
F. whereas stronger EU prudential and anti-money laundering (AML) supervision is necessary;
Amendment 67 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital G
Recital G
G. whereas the withdrawal of the UK from the EU has resulted in the relocation of banking services to the EU; whereas the SSM played a crucial steering and monitoring role through its systematic “preparedness” guidance and coordination with significant banks on their operating models; whereas the full assessment of effectiveness of banking sector’s preparedness to the new reality will be tested in the mid and long term perspective;
Amendment 69 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital I
Recital I
I. whereas the crisis management and deposit insurance (CMDI) framework (CMDI) should be proportional, moreensure consistent and efficient hand more coherent, and shouldling of all banks, regardless of size or business model, as well as, contribute to preserving financial stability, minimising the use of taxpayers’ money and ensuring a level playing field across the EU;
Amendment 77 #
Motion for a resolution
Recital J
Recital J
J. whereas supervision and resolution rules, as well as the resolution fund have been centralized, deposit guarantees schemes remain national and differ across Member States; whereas depositors across the Banking Union should enjoy the same level of protection;
Amendment 82 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 1
Paragraph 1
1. Welcomes the entry of Bulgaria and Croatia into the Banking Union; and the inclusion of the Bulgarian lev and the Croatian kuna in the exchange rate mechanism (ERM II); takes note of the decisions of the European Central Bank (ECB) to establish close cooperation with Bulgarian National Banks and Croatian National Banks, whereby Bulgaria and Croatia joined, as of 1 October 2020, the Single Supervisory Mechanism (SSM)and the Single Resolution Mechanism (SRM); highlights that the National Banks of Bulgaria and Croatia are duly represented in the ECB and the SRB’s Plenary Session and Extended Executive Sessions with the same rights and obligations as all other members, including voting rights;
Amendment 94 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 2
Paragraph 2
2. Recalls that the Banking Union has delivered the institutional set-up for greater market integration, through the SSM and the SRM, while a European deposit insurance scheme (EDIS) is still lacking; welcomes the possible revision of the resolution framework and supports the current reflection for further harmonisation of insolvency laws, with a view to increase the efficiency and coherence of crisis management of banks in the EU, as well as for the creation of a deposit insurance mechanism in the Banking Union aiming to enhance the level of deposit protection;
Amendment 98 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3
Paragraph 3
3. Considers that banks’ were able to responsed to the current crisis demonstrates thatwith resilience as they were being better-capitalized and less-leveraged than a decade ago, demonstrating positive effects of the institutional set-up that has been put in place and the regulatory reforms following the past decade, as well as the institutional set-up, have resulted in better-capitalised and less- leveraged banks2008 financial crisis; contemplates, nevertheless, that the banking sector is characterised by certain structural inefficiencies, which can be further exacerbated by the current crisis; believes that the deteriorating asset quality of banks and persisting low interest rate environment may increase the level of NPLs in the banks’ balance sheet and impact the already subdued profitability, potentially leading to insolvency cases particularly for the most affected sectors; considers urgent and immediate action is required;
Amendment 103 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 a (new)
Paragraph 3 a (new)
3 a. Finds that the RRF may provide impetus for the completion of the Banking Union; highlights the crucial role of the banking sector in providing access to credit and channelling available funding into the real economy, in particular into sustainable and socially responsible investments;
Amendment 106 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 3 b (new)
Paragraph 3 b (new)
3 b. Observes that a fully-fledged Banking Union, together with fully integrated Capital Markets Union would support the functioning of the Economic and Monetary Union and a strengthened international role of the euro;
Amendment 111 #
4. Considers that while the good relationship between the SSM and the SRB has been fundamental from the inception of the system, a strengthened approach to cooperation between the two pillars is particularly important in the current context to ensure appropriate and timely action;
Amendment 129 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 6
Paragraph 6
6. NotWelcomes the ‘CRR quick fix’ with targeted changes to the Capital Requirements Regulation31 extending transitional arrangements in order to support banks’ lending capacity32 ; _________________ 31Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms and amending Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (OJ L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 1). 32Regulation (EU) 2020/873 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 June 2020 amending Regulations (EU) No 575/2013 and (EU) 2019/876 as regards certain adjustments in response to the COVID-19 pandemic (OJ L 204, 26.6.2020, p. 4). to households and businesses mitigating the economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and ensuring that the regulatory framework interacts smoothly with other measures addressing the crisis;
Amendment 141 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 7
Paragraph 7
7. Welcomes the ESAs’ recommendation of 31 March 2021 to prepare for an expected deterioration of asset quality; first joint risk assessment report of 20211a, advising banks to prepare for an expected deterioration of asset quality by adjusting provisioning models to ensure timely recognition of adequate levels of provision, to ensure sound lending practices and adequate pricing of risks, including after public support measures such as loan moratoria and public guarantee schemes will expire and to follow conservative policies on dividends and share buy-backs; further takes note of the ESA’s warning to financial institutions to continue to develop further actions to accommodate a “low-for-long” interest rate environment; _________________ 1a jc_2021_27_jc_spring_2021_report_on_ri sks_and_vulnerabilities.pdf(europa.eu)
Amendment 147 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 8
Paragraph 8
8. Calls for a well-orchestrated shift from pandemic relief to recovery support tools, as a nearly or uncoordinated withdrawal of the temporary measures could bring back pre-crisis deficiencies and vulnerabilities of the banking sector, including increasing banks’ exposures to credit risk, potentially affecting their capital position, and undermine recovery and growth;
Amendment 159 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9
Paragraph 9
9. NotWelcomes the accelerated pace of digitalisation in the banking sector, while pointing to the insufficient level ofallowing banks to better serve clients remotely and with new products and providing opportunities for increased cost-efficiency; underlines that digitalisation requires considerable resources for investments in this areaIT systems, R&D and new operating models, which may expose banks to weak profitability in the short term, particularly for banks with lower capital levels and riskier exposures; considers that bank consolidation of small and medium-sized banks could facilitate their IT investment;
Amendment 164 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 9 a (new)
Paragraph 9 a (new)
9 a. Underlines the importance to secure technological neutrality in regulatory and supervisory approaches; highlights the need to address challenges posed by the use of new innovative technologies related to banking supervision and the oversight of payment systems; strongly supports the European Commission’s new Digital Finance Strategy, which will facilitate the scaling of innovative technology cross-border whilst ensuring high standards of consumer protection and financial sector resilience;
Amendment 168 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 10
Paragraph 10
10. Welcomes the ECB’s repwortk on the digital euro and, its report as well as the outcome of its public consultation and expects further analysis of the implications of digital currency for the banking sector, in terms of financial intermediation, lending capacity and profitability; takes note of the objective for the digital euro to function alongside cash, as a means of secure and competitive digital payment; supports the ECB’s efforts in ensuring a high level of privacy protection, confidentiality of payments data, cyber resilience, and security;
Amendment 175 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 11
Paragraph 11
11. Notes the postponement of the implementation of the Basel III reforms andat in March 2020, the Group of Central Bank Governors and Heads of Supervision (GHOS) revised the implementation timeline of the final elements of the Basel III framework; underlines the importance of sound global banking standards and their consistent implementation; awaits the Commission’s upcoming proposal on the implementation of the finalised standards, takingBasel III standards; recalls that the implementation should take into account the specificities and diversity of the EU banking sector; and business models and respect the principle of not significantly increasing overall capital requirements, while at the same time strengthening the overall financial position of European banks;
Amendment 200 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 14 a (new)
Paragraph 14 a (new)
14 a. Appreciates the role of European banking supervision in ensuring temporary capital and operational relief to banks, so they can continue to provide financial support to businesses and households and absorb losses, while maintaining high quality of the supervision;
Amendment 202 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15
Paragraph 15
15. NTakes notes that the SSM, in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, temporarily allowed banks to use extra capital buffers and provided flexibility for rebuilding them, which could allow banks to process quickly expected increase of NPLs; calls for guidance on the expected period and approach to rebuilding the buffers;
Amendment 204 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 a (new)
Paragraph 15 a (new)
15 a. Highlights the importance of enhancing transparency and predictability of EU banking supervision and commends in this regard the recent practice of publishing bank specific Pillar 2 requirements; believes that individual requirements make SSM expectations more reliable and facilitate more informed investors’ decisions;
Amendment 205 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 15 b (new)
Paragraph 15 b (new)
15 b. Expects that recent changes to the SSM organisational structure, while simplifying the system and incorporating technological innovation, will facilitate more risk focused supervision and internal institutional collaboration;
Amendment 212 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17
Paragraph 17
17. SAcknowledges that Covid-19 induced crisis increases the risk of further build-up of NPLs; stresses that ensuring proper and timely management of deteriorated exposureasset quality in banks’ balance sheets will be key to preventing a build-up of non-performing loans (NPLs) in the short term; calls for the monitoring of any potential cliff edge effects particularly when temporary relief measures are withdrawn;
Amendment 222 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 a (new)
Paragraph 17 a (new)
17 a. Underlines that banks should comply with applicable prudential rules and supervisory guidance on NPLs and maintain operational capacity to proactively manage distress debtors and control their balance sheets, accelerating early identification of bad loans in order to reduce the risk of weakening lending capacity in the time of great demand for recovery related investment; highlights existing flexibility in implementing ECB guidance on NPLs, including granting more time for banks with particularly high NPL levels for the submission of their NPLs reduction strategies;
Amendment 223 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 17 b (new)
Paragraph 17 b (new)
17 b. Reminds that risk reduction in the banking sector would contribute a more stable, strong and economic growth oriented Banking Union; in this regard asks co-legislators to finalise the agreement on the Commission proposal for the Directive on credit servicers and credit purchasers, which will encourage the development of secondary markets for NPLs in the EU and aims to help banks to reduce the stocks of NPLs on their balance sheets; calls on the co-legislators to subsequently work on an agreement on the Commission proposal regarding accelerated extrajudicial collateral enforcement (AECE), which intends to provide banks, under certain conditions, with a mechanism to accelerate the value recovery from secured loans via an extrajudicial enforcement of procedures;
Amendment 225 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 18
Paragraph 18
18. Stresses that banks should diligently assess the financial soundness and viability of businesses, proactively engage with distressed debtors to manage their exposures, and offer financing and viable restructuring, or alternative suitable options to viable companies, in order to ensure that defaults are prevented where possible, and that businesses and consumers don’t risk over-indebtedness; urges banks to contemplate, as last resort, the exit of unviable companies from the market in a structured way; considers that the prudential framework should allow and encourage such options; calls upon EBA to give banks enough room to provide forbearance measures, and avoid counterproductive capital absorptions;
Amendment 239 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 19
Paragraph 19
19. Notes that the expected credit losses, together with the current low interest environment, might further negatively affect the already subdued profitability of banks; points to the need for banks to readjust their business models towards more sustainable, cost-saving and technologically advanced strategies, and to perform strategic steering and prudent oversight of business functions; emphasises the importance to ensure that banks’ provisioning decisions to support the lending capacity of banks are not unduly postponed, particularly when the demand for credit picks up;
Amendment 255 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 21
Paragraph 21
21. Regrets that the home host issue remains a challenge; is concerned that if the level of NPLs rises as public support measures begin to recede, home and host countries may put in place measures to protect assets and proceed with renewed ring-fencing; stresses that banks need to be able to operate across borders while managing their capital and liquidity at a consolidated level, in order to diversify their risks and address any lack of profitability; considers that gradual harmonisation is required in areas where national options and discretions apply, including in the area of insolvency law with credible and enforceable safeguards for host countries concerning the availability of resources and impact on financial stability;
Amendment 270 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 22 b (new)
Paragraph 22 b (new)
22 b. Stresses the important role of robust internal governance structures within banks, and points to the weakness identified thereof in the SSM’s 2020 Supervisory and Evaluation Process (SREP) focused on how banks handled crisis-linked risk to capital and liquidity, taking into account exceptional circumstances affecting individual banks; commends the targeted approach to collecting information for capital and liquidity assessment; underlines the importance of enacting the highest standards and a level playing field in the “fit and proper” assessments of board members of banks, which are currently construed differently across Member States due to the highly diverse transposition of the Capital Requirements Directive; endorses the ECB’s plan to revise its current Guide to fit and proper assessment in 2021 to outline its supervisory expectations on the quality of the board members; anticipates the ECB’s proposals for a package of measures aimed at enhancing the fit and proper supervision; encourages in that regard the consideration for integration of the ‘fit and proper’ requirements into the Capital Requirements Regulation;
Amendment 283 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 25
Paragraph 25
25. Notes the EBA’s role in leading, coordinating and monitoring the EU financial sector’s fight against money laundering and terrorist financing; welcomes EBA's support on individual functioning of AML supervisory powers implementation across Member countries and calls for further actions to ensure AML/CFT supervision is risk based, proportionate and effective; points to the differences in approaches taken to AML/CFT supervision by national authorities and in the application of the EU regulation, which may result in regulatory arbitrage; takes note of EBA's second mandate to build a database on AML, expected to be developed in 2021, and enhance cooperation and exchange of information across European authorities; stresses the important role AML colleges for cross border groups, comprising of all AML authorities of the jurisdictions where the group operates, play in assessing how the group is performing under AML;
Amendment 295 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 26
Paragraph 26
26. NTakes note of the UK’s withdrawal from the EU; acknowledges the progress that many significant banks have achieved on their post-Brexit target operating models as agreed with the SSM, and supports the SSM’s efforts to monitor progress towards these models in the areas of assets, staff and booking practices; reiterates that in the context of relocation of business in the EU, empty shell institutions are not acceptable in the euro area; considers that existing regulatory loopholes in the EU legal framework should be addressed in order to strengthen supervision and recalls that the SSM will assume direct responsibility for the prudential supervision of systemically relevant investment firms once the revised Investment Firms regulation comes into force in June 2021; notes the UK’s withdrawal from the EU; takes note of the progress that many significant banks have achieved on their post-Brexit target operating models as agreed with the SSM, and supports the SSM’s efforts to monitor progress towards these models in the areas of assets, staff and booking practices;
Amendment 299 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 28
Paragraph 28
28. Trusts that the introduction of a backstop into the SRF in 2022, two years earlier than originally envisaged, is positive for the strengthening of the crisis management framework; n the form of a revolving credit line from the ESM, providing a safety net for bank resolutions in the Banking Union, will strengthen the crisis management framework and is an important step towards completing the Banking Union; notes that the significant build-up of the Single Resolution Fund together with the common backstop, will provide the SRB with access to combined funds at the level of €100 billion;
Amendment 328 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 32
Paragraph 32
32. Finds merit, in particular, in adopting a targeted approach to the harmonisation of the creditor hierarchy in bank insolvency proceedings, including the treatment of covered and uncovered deposits, in order to increase the scope of the funding by the DGSs in resolution and in measures other than payouts, subject to the stringent application of a least-cost test; calls therefore on the Commission to bring more clarity to the least-cost principle and to the conditions for the use of DGS funds;
Amendment 330 #
Motion for a resolution
Paragraph 33
Paragraph 33
33. Considers it necessary to review the public interest assessment in order to allow resolution tools to be applied to a broader group of banks;increase transparency and ex-ante predictability on its expected outcome, and thus allow resolution tools to be applied to a broader group of banks and provide the clarity needed to ensure more coherent and proportionate MREL levels; further in that regard underlines the need to coherently revisit the State Aid rules and the Commission’s 2013 Banking Communication 1a to reflect the progress in the implementation of the crisis management framework and to achieve consistency with respect to BRRD requirements; _________________ 1a OJ C 216, 30.7.2013, p. 1.
Amendment 348 #
35. Notes the importance of depositors across the Banking Union enjoying the same level of protection of their savings; takes note of the Commission proposal to introduce a European Deposit Insurance Scheme in order to further strengthen citizens’ confidence in the protection of deposits by introducing an EDISand enhance financial stability; considers the importance of EDIS in helping reduce the link between sovereigns and banks;