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Taxonomy 3.2: Are the validation rules v6327_m and v6332_m consistent?

In Annex II to Regulation (EU) 2021/451, chapter 6.1.2 referring to template C 32.01, the row of the line 0120 “shall correspond to row 0250 of template F 01.01 of Annexes III and IV to this Implementing Regulation”. By this way, the 0120 FAIR VALUE CHANGES OF THE HEDGED ITEMS IN PORTFOLIO HEDGE OF INTEREST RATE RISK may contain negative values. Refer the annex XV of the same implementing regulation, the corresponding validation rules are defined in the taxonomy 3.2 like this: v6327_m: {c0020} <= {c0010} ; Severity: Error v6332_m: {c0090} <= {c0080} ; Severity: Warning However, when the cell C32.01_A0120_0010 is negative, it will be necessary lower than the cell C32.01_A0120_0020 (OF WHICH: TRADING BOOK) and the control v6327_m is wrongly activated. We have the same analysis between the C32.01_A0120_0080 and C32.01_A0120_0090 for the control v6332_m Should these validation rule should be treated in absolute value to be consistent?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Calculation of the CET1 to be used as available stable funding in NSFR

It is not clear the amount of CET1 that should be part of the NSFR, and whether it can be calculated out of items reported in C01.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Bucket definition (PD range) in the ITS on supervisory reporting

Does Q&A 6718 also modify the definition of the row 'PD Range'?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Structural FX: considering tax effect when calculating maximum open position that can be waived from FX charge

May tax effect be considered when computing the maximum open position that can be waived in the context of the structural FX provision referred to in Article 352(2) of Regulation( EU) No 575/2013?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2020/09 - Guidelines on the treatment of structural FX under Article 352(2) of CRR

near miss

Hi I am looking for the definition and description of near- miss events and if possible also provide some examples. 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Should collateral received via securities financing transaction that is subsequently sold short be reported as encumbered in F32.02? Follow-up question on 2014_946 related to short positions in Asset Encumbrance

As clarified in Q&A 946 “Selling collateral received (short sale) does not give rise to encumbrance”. Two scenarios are addressed under this Q&A and further clarity is sought on scenario one and the reporting of collateral received in template F 32.02 where such collateral is subsequently sold short. Is it the intended view that within F 32.02 where an institution receives collateral, against cash, and then uses that collateral received to cover a short position, that the received collateral should be reported as unencumbered in F 32.02, column 040?  If so, can you please provide supporting rationale that selling collateral received (short sale) does not give rise to encumbrance given that once the collateral is sold short, it is not available for re-use by the institution?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Reporting of significant currencies (> 5%) according to Article 415 (2) (a) CRR

Article 415 (2) (a) CRR says: 2. An institution shall report separately to the competent authorities the items referred to in the implementing technical standards referred to in paragraph 3 or 3a of this Article, in Title III until such time as the reporting obligation and the reporting format for the net stable funding ratio set out in Title IV have been specified and introduced in Union law, in Title IV and in the delegated act referred to in Article 460(1), as appropriate, in accordance with the following: (a) where items are denominated in a currency other than the reporting currency and the institution has aggregate liabilities denominated in such a currency which amount to or exceed 5 % of the institution's or the single liquidity sub-group's total liabilities, excluding own funds and off-balance-sheet items, reporting shall be done in the currency of denomination; (b) where items are denominated in the currency of a host Member State where the institution has a significant branch as referred to in Article 51 of Directive 2013/36/EU and that host Member State uses another currency than the reporting currency, the reporting shall be done in the currency of the Member State in which the significant branch is located; (c) where items are denominated in the reporting currency, and the aggregate amount of liabilities in other currencies than the reporting currency amounts to or exceeds 5 % of the institution's or the single liquidity subgroup's total liabilities, excluding own funds and off-balance-sheet items, the reporting shall be done in the reporting currency. There has to be breakdown by currencies if the 5% condition is met. ITS article 4 sets the reporting thresholds for entry and exit criteria. Does this means that if the 'significant currency' conditions is not met anymore then exit criteria 'three consecutive reporting reference dates' has to be followed? Or institution can stop reporting other currencies as soon as ratio is < 5%?  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Use of the last available data for risk quantification sample

Given the requirements of Articles 179(1)(a) and 175(4)(b) CRR, in case of a model development, should the last available one-year snapshot be used for risk quantification purposes (i.e., for the computation of the long-run average default rate) or be set aside for out-of-time validation tests?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2017/16 - Guidelines on PD estimation, LGD estimation and the treatment of defaulted exposures

Other assets/liabilities in the context of NSFR templates (C 80.00 and C 81.00)

Should institutions report as Other Assets or Other Liabilities also the IFRS accounting corrections deriving from the adoption of a macro-hedging strategy on Interest Rate Risk? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Other assets/liabilities in the context of NSFR templates (C 80.00 and C 81.00)

Should institutions report as Other Assets or Other Liabilities also the IFRS accounting corrections deriving from the adoption of a macro-hedging strategy on Interest Rate Risk?  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

EBA VR Taxo v3.2.1, Validation rule v11909_m to v11961_m; and v7820_m; v7821_m

Why there is still some validation rules which control if Financial Garantee and Collateral are less than the Gross Carrying Amount in FINREP 18?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Consideration of default dependencies for MoC C quantification

Do financial institutions have to incorporate the variability of the macro-economic factor (of the Vasicek model) into the quantification of the MoC C? In other words, do financial institutions have to incorporate default dependencies between obligors into the MoC C quantification?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2017/16 - Guidelines on PD estimation, LGD estimation and the treatment of defaulted exposures

Capital instruments eligible as Tier 2 Capital

Under the CRR, capital instruments and subordinated loans shall only qualify as Tier 2 instruments provided that the conditions outlined in Article 63 are met. This includes the condition that “the instruments are directly issued by an institution and fully paid up” as per Article 63(a). As further outlined in Annex II instruction to row 0771, such capital instruments also include subordinated loans insofar that they fulfil the eligibility criteria. We would like to request clarification on the eligibility criteria of Article 63(a) in the context of an amendment in the regulation’s text of Article 64, effected via CRR II (Regulation 2019/876). This clarification is sought with the aim of determining whether the “accrued interest” on subordinated debt may be eligible for inclusion as Tier 2 capital, having regard to Article 63(a) and Article 64 in particular.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Boundary between the banking book and the trading book

A bond issued that has an automatic early redemption option linked to an equity index can be treated as follows: - the market value net of the embedded option related to early redemption is included in the banking book; - the option related to early redemption is unbundled and placed in the trading book so that all risks participate in the market risk requirement? In the case of not being able to unbundle the option related to early redemption and thus placing the equity risk in the trading book, should the institution move the entire bond within the trading book? Or does the bond remain in the banking book and can the early redemption risk from the equity index be managed in the banking book?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Permission to reduce own funds or eligible liabilities and deduction rules in the context of a liability management exercise (exchange offer, tender offer or issuance of a replacement instrument concurrent with a tender offer on the existing instrument)

Should deductions from own funds and eligible liabilities with regards to a permission to reduce own funds or eligible liabilities in accordance with Article 77 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) in the context of a liability management exercise (exchange offer, tender offer or issuance of a replacement instrument concurrent with a tender offer on the existing instrument), rather than upon the exercise of a call option,  be made right after the permission from the competent authority / resolution authority is granted or could it be later at the time of the institution’s public announcement of the liability management exercise in accordance with Article 28(2) of the RTS on Own Funds? In that context, how should the concept of ‘sufficient certainty’ of Article 28(2) RTS be applied?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 - RTS for Own Funds requirements for institutions

Multi-licensed entity capital requirement

Whether a payment institution that also has a crowdfunding license must meet the capital requirements of both authorizations in aggregate?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Reporting of marginal deposit facility amounts (overnight deposits with the central bank) in templates C72 and C74.

It is not clear how the amounts in Central Banks regarding the marginal deposit facility should be treated in the calculation of the LCR and reported in C72 and C74.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement

Fraud reporting

How we should treat the transactions that are initiated by PSP (for example refunds, chargebacks, etc.), but those transactions are related to cardholder's actions.

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2018/05 - Guidelines on fraud reporting under PSD2 (amended by EBA/GL/2020/01)

Assessing the level of concentration, measures and indicators

What is EBA's opinion regarding the inclusion or not in the determination of the Herfindahl-Hirschman Index (used for determining additional capital in case of credit risk concentration) of the exposures for which the RWA is zero (zero capital allocation) ?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2022/03 - Guidelines on common procedures and methodologies for the supervisory review and evaluation process (SREP) and supervisory stress testing under Directive 2013/36/EU

Explanation regarding the term "non-reducible"

Could you please explain what does mean the term "nonreducible" in the context of life insurance policy pledged to a lending institution?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable