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Inclusion of ancillary services undertakings in prudential consolidation

Should the ancillary services undertakings be included in prudential consolidation according to Article 18 and 19 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_382
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/04/2014

Netting Methodologies

Does the EBA intend to issue guidance on the appropriate netting methodologies to be applied. For example, should netting take into account criteria such as currency, cash flow date, product etc. or should a more simplistic approach be used, e.g. adding all the inflows and outflows occurring within the 30 day timeframe to produce a net figure to be reported either as payable to receivable.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_381
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Reporting treatment of forward starting trades

Further clarification on the reporting treatment of forward starting trades would be appreciated. A forward starting trade will have two cash flows, one at the start and one at the maturity of the trade. For example, a forward starting deposit will have an inflow at the start to reflect the deposit being received, while an outflow at maturity to reflect the repayment of the deposit. It is not clear, however, how the flows should be reported.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_380
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/03/2014

Inclusion of transactions between trade and settlement dates

We would welcome clarification on the reporting of transactions between trade and settlement dates. Firms apply typically a contractual approach which results in inflows and outflows being grossed up and subject to the 75% inflow cap - this means that a liquid asset requirement of 25% applies to trades that settle to a zero position or have a net cash flow of zero. For example, a bank might enter a trade to purchase a $100m bond from counterparty A, settlement at t+3. The bank also enters into an addition trade to sell the same bond to counterparty B with settlement also occurring at t+3. Both cash flows will occur on day 3 and net to zero and the balance sheet position will also be zero. However, if the inflows and outflows were reported separately then the 75% inflow cap would apply.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_378
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2014

ITS reporting - Group Solvency - Applicable only at top conso level

Could you confirm that this table is applicable only at top conso level only, ie it is not required to report this in sub-consolidated reports

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_377
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/03/2014

Definition of Investments in Private Equity

Do investments in private equity referred to under Article 128(2)(c) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 only relate to investments in CIU?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_374
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/10/2014

Reporting of amounts 'representing claims or guaranteed by multilateral development banks'

There appears a possible inconsistency in relation to the reporting of Row 610 on the outflows template 'representing claims on or guaranteed by multilateral development banks' and the corresponding instructions. In particular, the instructions make reference to 'representing claims on, or claims guaranteed by, the Bank of International Settlements, the International Monetary Fund, the European Union, the European Financial Stability Facility, the European Stability Mechanism or multilateral development bank' and not therefore only multilateral development banks. Can the EBA advise whether there is an error in the reporting template or instructions or whether this is indeed intended to be the case?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_373
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Valuation of qualifying holdings outside the financial sector for the purposes of Article 89 of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013

What is the correct valuation to determine the 15% threshold of the eligible capital under Article 89(1) of Regulation (EU) No, 575/2013? Are the provisions of Article 4(77) also relevant for this purpose or should it be generally the amortized cost?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_367
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/01/2014

Treatment of clients' exposures

Is it a requirement for the criteria in Article 305, paragraph 2, subparagraph (b) to be fulfilled that the client has an agreement with a clearing member in place, which, while not guaranteeing porting, has been identified to the relevant CCP as a back-up clearing broker for that client?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_366
  • Topic: Market infrastructures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/03/2014

Large Exposures - clients to CCPs

May a client relying on Article 305(2) to calculate own funds requirements for its trade exposures for CCP-related transactions with its clearing member in accordance with Article 306, rely on the exemption in Article 400 as regards such CCP-related transactions? Legal Reference: Article 295(1), 400, 305 and 306

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_365
  • Topic: Large exposures
  • Date of submission:

Financial Customer Definition - application to captive finance companies within non-financial corporate groups

Article 411(1) stipulates that “'financial customer' means a customer that performs one or more of the activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU as its main business”. We are seeking clarity as to whether captive finance companies (“captives”) are captured by this section of the financial customer definition where they are part of a wider non-financial corporate group.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_364
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 23/10/2015

OPR Details

a)Could you provide an explanation to the reference to Article 5 point (b) (2) iii in paragraph 124 of the COREP instructions (operational risk details template)? b)Is EBA going to publish every year the sum of individual balance sheet totals of all institutions within a Member State or should we ask this information from the national supervisor? c)Article 6 of the ‘Draft ITS on supervisory reporting’ refers to article 4. Is this correct? d)If the ratio of individual balance sheet total on the sum of individual balance sheet totals of all institutions within the same Member State is higher than or equal to 1% over the first reporting period (Q1 2014), some information about operational losses has to be reported. Is this a correct interpretation of the entry criteria mentioned in article 4 of the ‘Draft ITS on supervisory reporting’?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_362
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/03/2014

Applicability of the transitional period under Article 124(3) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013

According to Article 124(3) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 (CRR), institutions should have a 6-month transitional period to apply higher risk weights set by the competent or designated authorities to exposures secured by mortgages on immovable property.Should this transitional period also apply if the national authority decides under CRR to set risk weights at the same level and to the same extent, i.e. for the same kind of exposures that are currently set under CRD (so in fact such decision would not result in a higher capital requirements for banks in comparison to current national legislation)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_361
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/01/2014

Eligibility of index CDS hedges in Advanced CVA charge

Please can you confirm whether Basel FAQ 2c7 published in December 2012 on page 19 of BCBS's FAQ (http://www.bis.org/publ/bcbs237.pdf) is applicable under CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_360
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 21/02/2014

Own funds: Value adjustments for prudent valuation (Additional Value Adjustments)

Article 34 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) requires institutions to deduct from CET1 the amount of any additional value adjustments on all assets measured at fair value calculated in accordance with a prudent valuation of these assets based on the provisions specified in Article 105 of CRR. In this context, paragraph 14 of Article 105 of CRR specifies that EBA shall submit draft regulatory technical standards (RTS) to the Commission by 28 July 2013 (as per CRR corrigendum published on 2 August 2013). In this regard the EBA published a draft consultation paper (EBA/CP/2013/28) whereby it is specified that "as a consequence of the EBA decision to conduct a QIS, the EBA currently envisages to finalise the technical standard in Q2 2014". On 7 October 2013 the EBA published revised deadlines for the delivery of the technical standards to the European Commission; in particular it is specified that the revised deadline for the submission of the RTS on prudent valuation (Article 105(14) CRR) has been postponed to 1 June 2014. Therefore it is not clear as concerns the first reporting date on Q12014 whether institutions must: 1) not apply the prudential filter (i.e. the relative reporting item shall be valued zero) until the publication of the final EBA RTS 2) calculate the prudential filter in accordance with the Basel II framework (i.e. requirements for prudent valuation defined by each local regulator) 3) calculate the prudential filter in accordance with the draft EBA standards as defined in consultation paper EBA/CP/2013/28

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_359
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/11/2013

Operational risk

Article 95 (3) in Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) has a reference to Title VII, Chapter 3, Section II, Sub-section 1 of Directive 2013/36/EU. From reviewing Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) there are no sub-sections of the above mentioned Section II. Section II which starts with Article 119 regards Financial holding companies etc. In light of this the reference to the CRD in Article 95 (3) of the CRR does not seem to be correct, could the EBA please provide guidance?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_358
  • Topic: Operational risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/11/2013

LCR outflow to report for shorts under Article 423(4) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 (CRR)

We assume we should be symmetrical in terms of the outflow reported for shorts (to be delivered within 30 days) and the inflows reported for the corresponding short covering trades (reverse repo/stock borrow) that mature within 30 days, since the two transactions are reported gross and independently of each other, and it is the maturity of the reverse repo/stock borrow that gives rise to the need to deliver within 30 days. We believe that the outflow to report under Article 423(4) of the CRR should be weighted consistently in line with reverse repo inflows per Article 425(2)(d): 0% for assets listed under Article 416(1)(a), (1)(b) and (1)(c) At least 15% for assets listed reported under Article 416(1)(d) 100% for any other asset not qualifying under Article 416(1)

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_355
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 21/02/2014

Discounts on balance sheet exposures purchased when not in default

In Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) Article 159 it states: "......Discounts on balance sheet exposures purchased when in default in accordance with Article 166(1) shall be treated in the same manner as specific credit risk adjustments." In respect of this how should one treat discounts on purchased exposures that were not in default at the time of purchase and discounts that were not calculated on single exposure level, but instead calculated on a whole portfolio of exposures which are not in default.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_354
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/04/2014

Error on ID / Template C01.00 - Own Funds (CA1), row 780

Why row 780 has not the same ID between Excel file (Annex I - Own funds templates) and Word file (Annex II - Own funds) ?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_349
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/03/2014

Derivatives reporting in stable funding

On page 9 (2.1 - 6) it is stated that the derivatives payables and receivables is to be reported according to regulatory netting rules, not accounting rules, (applicable for both categories), which means that the summation of the categories are not going to be neither the same, nor add up to the total assets. Please clarify the amount to be reported for derivatives, and how the control for templates 60 and 61 will work.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2013_348
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014