EBA DGSD3 Depositor Protection: Four Consultations Close 23 October

On 23 July 2026 the European Banking Authority opened four public consultations on the first batch of DGSD3 depositor protection standards, the technical rules that will put the revised Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive into daily operation. The comment window on all four closes on 23 October 2026. For banks and the teams that feed deposit guarantee schemes their data, this is the moment to read the drafts: they redraw the depositor information sheet, the information exchanged when a bank fails, the data needed to reimburse client funds, and how schemes invest the money they hold.

None of these four texts is in force yet. They sit on top of Directive (EU) 2026/804, the DGSD3 amending directive that entered into force on 10 May 2026, and they turn its high-level mandates into the templates, procedures and reporting that authorities will check. The EBA has said it must produce twelve technical standards and guidelines under DGSD3, and these are the first four. Getting depositor records, covered-deposit figures and client-money data into shape is central to payout preparedness. Article 8 retains a general seven-working-day repayment deadline, but DGSD3 permits up to 20 working days after receipt of complete information or documentation for temporary high balances and for beneficiary or client-funds deposits where the person absolutely entitled has not been identified when the deposits become unavailable.

Related reading: our walkthrough of Directive (EU) 2026/804, the DGSD3 amendment.

The DGSD3 consultation calendar

This is a consultation, so the comment and hearing dates come first, ahead of any reporting reference date. Keep the following in front of the team.

• 23 July 2026: the EBA launches four public consultations under DGSD3.
• 21 September 2026, 12:00 CEST: registration deadline for the public hearing.
• 24 September 2026, 10:00 to 13:00 CEST: a single public hearing covering all four regulatory products.
• 23 October 2026: deadline for comments on all four consultation papers.

Two directive-level dates frame the exercise. Directive (EU) 2026/804 was adopted on 30 March 2026, published in the Official Journal on 20 April 2026 and entered into force on 10 May 2026. Member States have until 11 May 2028 to transpose most of it, with the preventive-measure rules applying from 11 May 2029. The standards under consultation will be finalised inside that window.

What the DGSD3 depositor protection consultations cover

The four products split into two implementing technical standards, one regulatory technical standard and one set of guidelines. Each targets a different link in the chain that runs from a bank’s records to a paid-out depositor.

ITS on depositor information

The draft implementing standards set harmonised content and formats for the depositor information sheet handed over at account opening and provided again on a regular basis, plus requirements for communicating with depositors in specific situations such as a merger of banks or a failure. The EBA frames the goal as improving depositors’ awareness of their coverage while leaving institutions flexibility in how they communicate, and states the intention is to do this without increasing administrative burden. That phrase is worth reading carefully, because a harmonised format still means aligning whatever sheet a bank issues today.

ITS on information exchange

These standards introduce standardised procedures, templates and minimum requirements for exchanging information in a bank-failure scenario. For reporting teams this is the operative text. It enhances reporting from schemes to the EBA on covered deposits and available financial means, defines the information authorities report on bank failures, and improves transparency on how DGS funds are used. The draft builds on current payout-preparation and reporting requirements, while specifying procedures, templates and minimum information for institution-to-DGS exchanges, annual DGS reporting to the EBA and reporting on uses of DGS funds.

RTS on client funds payouts

The draft regulatory standards address deposits held in intermediary accounts, where an account holder holds money on behalf of underlying clients. They set rules so schemes receive the data needed to identify and reimburse those clients, clarify when reimbursement should go directly to the client rather than through the account holder, and specify how to prevent a client being paid twice.

Guidelines on investing available financial means

The draft guidelines set out how schemes should invest the funds they collect from the industry, aiming for diversification, low risk and enough liquidity. The point is speed of access: a scheme must be able to mobilise funds quickly. DGSD3 revises and further harmonises a framework that already allowed DGS funds to be used for depositor repayment, resolution financing and, where national law permitted, preventive or alternative measures.

Where the new reporting actually lands

The reporting weight of this package sits in the information-exchange ITS, and it flows in two directions. Schemes report upward to the EBA on covered deposits and available financial means. Authorities report on bank failures. Banks sit underneath both flows, because the covered-deposit figure a scheme reports starts in the depositor records the bank has to be able to produce.

That reconciliation between a bank’s depositor file and the figure the scheme sends upward is where I have watched reference dates and beneficiary flags drift on live data. The information-exchange ITS standardises procedures, templates and minimum information for payout preparation and reporting; the exact data fields should be taken from the consultation paper rather than inferred. The depositor information sheet and information-exchange reporting rely on related DGS-membership and depositor-eligibility controls, but the sheet is a standard communication document rather than a depositor-level reporting template.

The client funds RTS and the duplicate-payout trap

The client funds RTS is the draft most likely to be misread. Holding money in an intermediary or client account does not mean every underlying client is automatically reimbursed by the scheme. Coverage depends on the Article 8b conditions: the underlying client must be eligible for DGS protection, the funds must be held in a segregated account that complies with applicable Union safeguarding requirements, and the client must be identified or identifiable before the deposits become unavailable. The RTS then specifies identification details, the criteria for repayment to the account holder or directly to the client, and rules to avoid multiple claims. Where those facts are unclear, a client can end up counted twice, or missed.

Firms that hold client money, such as investment firms, payment institutions and e-money institutions placing safeguarded funds with a credit institution, should ask whether their records let a scheme look through to the beneficiaries. If a firm’s ledger cannot identify each eligible client and link the client to funds held in a compliant segregated safeguarding account, the Article 8b coverage conditions may not be met. The duplicate-claim rules address a separate risk where a DGS pays a client directly while the client retains a claim against the account holder.

What the DGSD3 consultations do not change yet

These are draft texts open for comment, so nothing here creates a live reporting obligation today. The templates in the information-exchange ITS, the format of the depositor sheet and the client-funds data rules can all still move before the standards are finalised and, for the three technical standards, adopted by the European Commission. Treating a draft template as a build specification is premature.

The scope is also narrower than DGSD3 as a whole. The EBA is mandated to deliver twelve technical standards and guidelines under the revised directive, and this is the first four. The remaining mandates are not in this consultation, so a team cannot read the full DGSD3 reporting picture from these four papers alone. The EUR 100,000 general coverage level and the central payout role of DGSs remain, but DGSD3 changes material elements of eligibility, client-funds coverage, payout procedures, fund use, cross-border cooperation and transparency; these four papers implement only part of that wider reform. For the resolution side of the same reform, the CMDI package published in the Official Journal sets the wider frame that DGSD3 fits into.

Reading the drafts before 23 October

The productive response is to route each paper to the function that owns its data. The information-exchange ITS goes to whoever owns covered-deposit and available-financial-means reporting; the depositor-information ITS to retail operations and that same reporting owner, because the records overlap; the client funds RTS to whoever reconciles client-money and safeguarding ledgers; the investment guidelines to a scheme’s treasury. The public hearing on 24 September is the live checkpoint before comments close, and checking the draft data expectations against existing resolution data pipelines may identify reusable data, but any overlap should be evidenced field by field.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is DGSD3, and how does it relate to Directive (EU) 2026/804?

DGSD3 is the EBA’s shorthand for the revised Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive. The legal instrument is Directive (EU) 2026/804 of 30 March 2026, which amends the original Directive 2014/49/EU on the scope of deposit protection, the use of scheme funds, cross-border cooperation and transparency. It entered into force on 10 May 2026.

When do the four EBA consultations close?

All four close on 23 October 2026. Comments are submitted through the send-your-comments button on each consultation page, and contributions are published after the consultation closes unless a respondent asks otherwise.

Are these depositor protection rules in force now?

No. They are draft implementing standards, a draft regulatory standard and draft guidelines out for consultation. The implementing and regulatory standards would still need adoption by the European Commission after the EBA finalises them, so none of the templates or formats is binding yet.

What does the client funds RTS mean for firms holding money on behalf of others?

It sets the data a scheme needs to identify and reimburse the underlying clients of an intermediary account, clarifies whether reimbursement runs to the client or through the account holder, and prevents duplicate payouts. Firms holding client money should check whether their ledgers let a scheme look through to the beneficiaries.

How many technical standards will the EBA produce under DGSD3, and when is the hearing?

Twelve technical standards and guidelines in total, of which these four are the first tranche, so further consultations will follow. The single public hearing on all four products is on 24 September 2026, from 10:00 to 13:00 CEST, with registration closing on 21 September 2026 at 12:00 CEST.

Related Articles

• Directive (EU) 2026/804 DGSD Amendment Explained – What the revised Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive changes on scope, funds, cross-border payout and transparency.
• Deposit Guarantee Scheme – How deposit guarantee schemes protect covered deposits and how the EUR 100,000 coverage level works.
• CMDI Official Journal Publication – The crisis management and deposit insurance package that DGSD3 forms part of.
• SRB Liquidity and Funding in Resolution Guidance 2026 – The resolution-side data and liquidity expectations that sit alongside DGS reporting.
• EBA Recovery Plan Dry Run Report – How supervisors test crisis readiness and the data behind it.

Key Takeaways

• The EBA opened four DGSD3 depositor protection consultations on 23 July 2026, and all four close on 23 October 2026.
• The four products are an ITS on depositor information, an ITS on information exchange, an RTS on client funds payouts, and guidelines on investing available financial means.
• The information-exchange ITS is the reporting-facing text: schemes report to the EBA on covered deposits and available financial means, and authorities report on bank failures.
• These are draft texts, not binding requirements; the two ITS and the RTS would still need Commission adoption after the EBA finalises them, while the guidelines are not adopted by the Commission.
• The client funds RTS targets intermediary accounts and duplicate-payout risk, so firms holding client money should test whether their ledgers allow a scheme to look through to beneficiaries.
• This is only the first four of twelve mandated DGSD3 standards and guidelines, so the full reporting picture is not yet visible.

Sources and References

• European Banking Authority, press release, “The EBA consults on rules to further improve depositor protection under the revised Deposit Guarantee Schemes Directive” (23 July 2026): eba.europa.eu
• Directive (EU) 2026/804 of 30 March 2026 amending Directive 2014/49/EU (DGSD3), EUR-Lex: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2026/804/oj
• Directive 2014/49/EU of 16 April 2014 on deposit guarantee schemes (recast), EUR-Lex: eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2014/49/oj
• European Commission, “Deposit guarantee schemes” policy page (EUR 100,000 coverage level): finance.ec.europa.eu

The remaining eight regulatory products are already on the clock

The value in reading these four drafts now is positional: they show which data a scheme will demand and which of a bank’s or firm’s records get tested first when a payout is triggered. The reporting owner, the retail team and the reconciliation function that each act now will move faster when the remaining DGSD3 mandates arrive. The consultation closes on 23 October 2026; the operating model it describes will outlast the comment window.

Last updated: July 2026

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