BBVA Reasearch | March 31, 2015 | The EBA (at European level) and the BCBS (at global level) both published their 7th Basel III Monitoring Report on March 3rd, using data as of June 2014. Overall, the trend towards enhancing the resilience of banks’ balance sheets is underpinned. Indeed, there has been an improvement in all the three pillars of the new prudential framework: capital, leverage and liquidity. The EBA estimates a capital shortfall of EUR2.8bn for a 7% CET1 of Group 1 banks, which means a decrease of 75% compared with the previous publication.