SSM Portal

Who can use the SSM Portal

The SSM Portal can be used by supervised banks (significant or less significant) and third parties (non-supervised entities or natural persons) depending on the process category.

Processes available via the SSM Portal

For significant and less significant banks

• Acquisition of qualifying holdings (also available to third parties) – Joint Guidelines on the prudential assessment of acquisitions and increases of qualifying holdings in the financial sector
• Passporting notifications
• Licensing (also available to third parties) – Guide to assessments of licence applications
• Voluntary withdrawals of authorisation

For significant banks only

• Credit quality review on-site inspections
  
• Fit and proper assessments – Guide to fit and proper assessments
• Internal models:
  • Non-material model changes and extensions
    Instructions for supervised entities filling in NMC notification forms
  • Model validation reporting
    Ongoing model monitoring
    Instructions to complete the form reporting the validation results for internal models
  • (Pre-)application process
    Internal model investigations

• (Mixed) Financial holding companies (also available to less significant institutions and third parties which will become part of a significant supervised group) 

• Notification of third-party arrangements – Instructions for supervised entities completing a third-party arrangement notification form

• Supervisory measures – Instructions to monitor and manage outstanding supervisory measures

• Mergers (also available to less significant institutions which will become a significant institution following the merger)

• Divisions

Regime of use

The use of the SSM Portal is mandatory by law or as administrative practice in some countries and voluntary in others, also depending on the process category. For detailed information you can consult the regime of use.

How to get access

Supervised banks can create their own users and manage their users’ access to the SSM Portal. They appoint delegated administrators who carry out this task.

The ECB acts as the administrator of third-party user accounts.

Supervised banks (significant and less significant)

To register a new supervised bank, please visit the SSM Portal registration app.

For banks that are already registered, delegated administrators can access the ECB Identity Portal and the SSM Portal to add new users and grant individual user permissions, respectively. These administrators further appoint new delegated administrators for their organisation in the ECB Identity Portal.

Detailed instructions on how to access the Portal can be found in the guides below.

User manual for delegated administrators How to access the SSM Portal for the first time Explaining the SSM Portal: how do I access different processes Quick Guide to supervisory applications

Third parties (non-supervised entities and natural persons)

Third-party user accounts are managed by the ECB. To register, modify or delete a third-party user account, please visit the SSM Portal registration app. 

How to receive support

For technical issues with the SSM Portal or the ECB Identity Portal, please contact the ECB Support Center at supportcenter@ecb.europa.eu or +49 69 1344 7766.

For business questions, please contact your National Competent Authority. You can find contact details in the SSM Portal. Specifically for internal models, please contact your Joint Supervisory Team.