On 28 April:
- FCA updated its guidance on changes to regulatory reporting; and
- The European Commission has announced a wide-ranging banking package to help banks to lend to support the economy. The package includes:
- adapting the timeline for Basel 3.1 and IFRS 9 application;
- encouraging banks and supervisors to make use of flexibility within rules and using them to act responsibly – including on how banks assess a borrower’s ability to repay;
- clarifications on how to treat the various payment moratoria that have been granted – in particular that they should not automatically be considered a significant increase in credit risk;
- guidance on how the prudential rules on classification of non-performing loans can accommodate the payment freezes;
- giving more favourable treatment to public guarantees granted during the crisis;
- postponing the date of the leverage ratio buffer;
- modifying the way in which certain exposures are excluded from the leverage ratio calculation; and
- bringing forwards the date of application of various measures to encourage infrastructure, SME and employee financing packages.