On Thursday 25 May, the European Banking Authority (EBA) announced that it was to publish the results of its annual transparency exercise in early December 2017, at the same time as its Risk Assessment Report (RAR) 2017.
This fourth transparency exercise will be launched in September 2017, when the EBA will send out questionnaires to verify data within the sample of banks. In all, nearly 600,000 pieces of information, supplying detailed data on the bank balance sheets and portfolios of more...