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The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a consultation on Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on the procedures for excluding transactions with non-financial counterparties (NFCs) established in a third country from the own funds requirement for credit valuation adjustment (CVA) risk. The proposed RTS align the treatment of NFCs established in a third country with the treatment of EU NFCs. The consultation runs until 5 November 2015.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) published today its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) laying out the requirements related to prudent valuation adjustments of fair valued positions. The objective of these draft RTS is to determine prudent values that can achieve an appropriate degree of certainty while taking into account the dynamic nature of trading book positions. These standards will be part of the EU Single Rulebook in banking aimed at enhancing regulatory harmonisation.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) has decided to make a specific and limited amendment to its final draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) on Prudent Valuation published on 31 March 2014. As a consequence of this decision, all occurrences of ‘volatility’ in Article 9 and Article 10 of the final draft RTS published on 31 March 2014 should be replaced by ‘variance’ for the purposes of computing market price uncertainty and close-out costs additional valuation adjustments (AVAs).