Towards an enhanced DPM Standard.
Date: 2024-02-05
Institutions: European Banking Authority
Subjects: European Economic Area, data collection, data processing, financial accounting, financial control, financial instrument, financial legislation, financial transaction, medium-term forecast, technical standard

TOWARDS AN ENHANCED

JUNE 2023

What is the DPM Standard?

The Data Point Model (DPM) Standard is a key com-
ponent  of  the  data  dictionary  used  by  the  EBA  and 
EIOPA to define concepts for the harmonised regu-
latory data requirements applicable to financial insti-
tutions in the European Economic Area (EEA). In that 
sense, the DPM Standards support experts prepar-
ing  or  using  regulatory  reporting  data  by  providing 
a  structured representation of the information, iden-
tifying all the business concepts and their relations, 
as well as validation and calculation rules.

EBA  and  EIOPA  have  conceived  the  DPM  Standard 
as a public good and as means to promote the full 
digital processing of the reporting frameworks. DPM 
Standard 1.0 has underpinned the reporting frame-
works under the remit of both authorities from the 
beginning and is ready to be scalable to further re-
porting frameworks.

EBA Investment 
firms framework

EBA supervisory 
reporting (CRR/CRD)

EBA Pillar 3 
framework

EBA resolution 
reporting

EIOPA Insurance 
framework

EIOPA Pensions 
framework

EIOPA PEPP 
framework

EIOPA Public 
disclosures 

DPM

Standard and comparable definitions 

Ready to support digital processing 

Ready to support systems connectivity 

Data validations and transformations

Compatible with any technology or data 
exchange standards

Different types of data

Support all the process in the data cycle

Why the DPM Refit? Moving from DPM Standard 1.0 to 2.0

In the last decade, the DPM methodology has success-
fully supported EBA and EIOPA in integrating their re-
spective regulatory frameworks. After all these years, 
the DPM Standard 1.0 requires enhancements to still 
fit the purpose of responding to changes and reducing 
costs. The DPM Refit is the joint response to the chal-
lenge of increased volume, granularity, and complexity 

of the data and aims to reap the benefits of stronger 
collaboration  and  a  higher  degree  of  harmonisation. 
To that end, experts from both ESAs have been work-
ing on the DPM Refit project to evolve DPM Standard 
1.0 to DPM Standard 2.0, which provides common data 
definition standards and tools.

The metadata centric approach 

DPM

DPM Standard 2.0

Define

Collect
Collection 
Platforms

Validate
Validation 
engines   

Transform 
Calculation 
engines   

Explore 
BI and Portals 
for exploration  

Disclose
BI and Portals 
for disclosure

Functionalities and features 
of the DPM Standard 1.0 as 
it stands:

Harmonisation of the regulatory reporting 
frameworks by providing a clear interpretation 
of data definition and data exchange requirements 
to all relevant stakeholders.

Versioning to cope with changes and new 
regulation developments.

Common platform of understanding to ease the 
communication between business and IT. Business 
concepts are specified in the DPM according 
to formal rules, as required by IT specialists, 
but remain manageable by data users.

Full automation of the data exchange by 
providing metadata to support the production 
of data exchange specifications, such as XBRL 
taxonomies, or other equivalent formats.

Technology independent, providing reporting 
metadata in a standard format that is simple to use 
by any reporting product (commercial or public).

What´s next?

Additional functionalities that DPM 
Standard 2.0 will provide after DPM Refit:

Flexible support to a wider range of use cases (collection of statistical, 
transactional or master data information).

Evolution of the business expressions language (DPM-XL) used for validations 
and calculations (becoming completely formal and with enhanced capabilities).

A fully harmonised EBA and EIOPA methodology freely adoptable under 
an ISO standard.

Consistent modelling of reporting requirements and convergence of methods, 
processes and tools.

Covering the whole reporting lifecycle (data definition/ metadata management/ 
data exploration), providing data relationships, and the data lineage in case of 
transformations, allowing users to drill down to the ultimate origin of the data.

Better integration of diverse data with different granularities or approaches 
(template-based or relational models).

Historisation of the glossary to ensure the evolution and better quality 
in integrating new elements.

Streamlining the reporting process by reducing complexity, duplications 
and unnecessary data.

In the longer term, the DPM Standard will play a key role 
in enabling a semantic integration of a single cross-sec-
toral dictionary for the whole financial sector.

To find out more on this project. keep an eye on the 
following links:
https://www.eba.europa.eu/regulation-and-policy/
supervisory-reporting/data-point-model-dpm-

EBA and EIOPA, in their journey towards the DPM Re-
fit project, will share more information on next steps 
and organise specific events. 

https://www.eiopa.europa.eu/tools-and-data/super-
visory-reporting-dpm-and-xbrl_en

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