- Question ID
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2024_7220
- Legal act
- Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
- Topic
- Credit risk
- Article
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135
- Paragraph
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1
- COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs/Recommendations
- Not applicable
- Article/Paragraph
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n/a
- Type of submitter
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Credit institution
- Subject matter
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Use of credit assessments by ECAIs not in scope of Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009.
- Question
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Can external credit assessments that have been issued by an ECAI, but were not publicly disclosed, be used to determine the risk weight of an exposure under the Standardised Approach?
- Background on the question
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While rating methodologies for private funds do exist, the availability of public ratings is very limited. The treatment as unrated corporates of in particular low-risk funds, such as pension funds, leads to very punitive risk weights and capital requirements under the Standardised Approach. While recognized ECAIs issue private ratings for these entities, it is not made explicit in Chapter 2, section 3 CRR whether or not private ratings issued by ECAIs are permitted for determining risk weights under SA.
- Submission date
- Status
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Question under review
- Answer prepared by
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Answer prepared by the EBA.