Brussels, 27/05/2014 (Agence Europe) - The European Central Bank is organising a consultation exercise among eurozone banks on the fees it will charge them for its work as the eurozone bank supervisory body from November 2014 onwards.
The ECB says that its prudential supervision costs will total some €260 million in 2015. Preliminary analysis shows that the annual supervision fee to be charged in 2015 to banks directly controlled by the ECB will be between €150,000 and €15 million, most banks paying between €0.7 million and €2 million, says the ECB in a press release. Some 75% of the smaller banks not directly controlled by the ECB will pay an annual fee of between €2,000 and €7,000 and big banks not directly controlled by the ECB will pay some €200,000.
For the consultation exercise that will run until 11 July, the ECB adopted a draft regulation setting out the methodology to be used to calculate and collect the annual surveillance fee from banks.
Two criteria will be used to decide the amount of the fee: the size of the bank based on its total assets and the risk profile and risk-weighted assets, which will be given equal importance in calculating the fee.
For further information, see: http://www.ecb.europa.eu/ssm/consultations/html/fees.fr.html (MB)