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Treatment of commodity indices

Must exposures to commodity indices be broken down into its underlying constituent commodities or can a commodity index be treated as if it were an individual commodity, just like stock indices (see Article 344 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_163
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/11/2013

FINREP Template F 06.00 - reporting by country

Template 6 - Breakdown of loans and advances to non-financial corporations by NACE codes and by residence of the counterparty. Should this table be delivered per country?

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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_161
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Treatment of Deliverable FX for single Currency Returns under 422 (6) and 425 (3)

When completing single currency returns can all deliverable FX flows occuring withing 30 days in that currency be netted down to one single FX flow reported as either an inflow 425 (3) or an outflow 422 (6), otherwise the 75% inflow cap will apply to FX activity under single currency reports, but will not apply under the all currency combined reports.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_160
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:

Uncollateralised stock borrowing (unsecured) Transactions

How should uncollateralised (unsecured) stock borrowing due with 30 days be reported? Such transactions will have an impact on the liquidity position of the institution: 1) If the securities borrowed qualify under Article 416(1) as liquid assets 2) If the securities borrowed do not qualify under Article 416 but have been re-pledged and used to raise funding for the institution with a maturity beyond 30 days 3) If the securities borrowed have been used to cover institution shorts.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_159
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/11/2013

FINREP: Calculation of accumulated changes in fair values- first application

Is it possible to apply a starting date for calculation of accumulated changes in fair values?

  • 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_158
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Scope of application of Articles 341 to 344 of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 (CRR)

Article 341 starts with "The institution shall separately sum all its net long positions and all its net short positions in accordance with Article 327.". Does "all positions" also include positions in the banking book, or are Articles 341-344 only valid for positions in the trading book?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_157
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/11/2013

Scope of application of Articles 339 and 340 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)

Article 339 of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 starts with "In order to calculate own funds requirements against general risk all positions shall be weighted...". Does "all positions" also include positions in the banking book or are Articles 339 and 340 only valid for positions in the trading book?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_155
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/11/2013

Liquidity: Market value of assets and payments due on liquid assets not reflected in the market value of the asset

Which value is to be reported for liquid assets, the clean price or the dirty price? (CRR Articles 418(1) and 425(7))

  • 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_154
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2014

FINREP - Company only IFRS reporting

Please confirm the reporting requirements for a broker dealer reporting stand-alone company accounts under IFRS. Current reading of the guidance suggests that such an entity would be out of scope.

  • 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_153
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Validation Rules - Mistakes in the Annex XV

- In the validation rules file, a confusion is made between rows and columns in excel columns 'H' and 'I'. - The validation rule for row item 330 of the FINREP template F 01.01 is missing

  • 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_152
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Other
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Liquidity: Instructions on reporting outflows in relation to custody, clearing and cash managment

Are the references to the Basel rules correct? Looking at the January 2013 Basel document, paragrapphs 75 and 76 referred to in the instructions do not appear to be the relevant in this context, as they refer to stable retail deposits.

  • 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_150
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

FINREP Reporting for firms with Accounting Reference Date other than 31 December

Article 18 (3) confirms that FINREP applies from 1 July 2014. We have a financial year end of 30 September which means that where we will report our first quarter's data for relevant templates (in full) as at 30 September 2014. For semi-annual templates should we only report a quarter's data in our first submission (1 July to end September) or should we start collecting data from 1 October, and report a full 6 months of data as at 31 March 2015? For annual templates should we only report a quarter's data in our first submission (1 July to end September) or should we start collecting data from 1 October, and report a full year's data as at 31 March 2015? The period 1 July 2014 to 30 September 2014 is a full quarter, so this will allow us to report a full quarter's data.

  • 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_147
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

COREP CA1: Reference to CRR Art 3 is unclear

CA1 Row 524 Column 010 relates to Article 3 of CRR. Article 3 of CRR, relating to Application of stricter requirements by institutions states: "This Regulation shall not prevent institutions from holding own funds and their components in excess of, or applying measures that are stricter than those required by this Regulation. Can the EBA please confirm if this relates to the difference between Capital Requirement and Capital Holdings? Alternatively is this cell intended to reflect any additional capital holding dictated by competent authorities?

  • 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_146
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Leverage ratio: Exposure value of derivatives

Article 429.6 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) states that the exposure value of financial derivatives listed in Annex II and of credit derivatives shall be calculated in accordance with the Mark-to-Market method (see Art. 274 of CRR). Based on such instructions, it is not clear if the above mentioned method shall be applied both to OTC and exchange trade derivatives, also including those contracts cleared with CCPs.

  • 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_145
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

IRB Approach

Regarding the IRB approach for the calculation of capital requirements for preventing credit risk, where should the weighting formula be applied? Is it contract by contract, or is it a weighted average of the probability of default (PD) and loss given default (LGD) for each pool and then apply the risk weight formula to this mean?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_144
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/11/2013

COREP: 'residence of the obligor' for the purposes of the CRGB1 template for supranational organisations and multilateral development banks

The guidelines for the CR GB 1 COREP template, Geographical breakdown of exposures by residence of the obligor, state that 'residence of the obligor' refers to the country of incorporation. However, how is this guideline to be applied in the case of exposures to either supranational organisations such as the EU (European Union) or multilateral development banks such as the EIB (European Investment Bank)?

  • 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_143
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Remittance dates in case of an accounting year-end which deviates from the calendar year

Is our understanding that submission of "financial information" based on their accounting year-end which deviates from the calendar year is relevant to FINREP templates only, but not to wider financial and prudential information (incl. COREP, LE, LR, LCR...) as well, correct?

  • 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_142
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Other
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

FINREP: F8.1 Breakdown of financial liabilities by product and by counterparty sector

This question ask for a clarification of the Table 8.1 Breakdown of financial liabilities by product and by counterparty sector foreseen by EBA FINAL draft implementing Technical Standards 2013-02, Anex III – reporting financial information according to IFRS. It is not clear which accounting portfolios based on IFRS (Held for trading, Designated at fair value through profit or loss, Amortised cost) are required to be included in an column 050 “Amount required to pay at maturity”.

  • 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_140
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 21/03/2014

FINREP: Counterparty classification of European institutions

This question ask for a clarification of the classification of European institutions into counterparty sectors for financial information templates (FINREP) foreseen by EBA FINAL draft implementing Technical Standards 2013-02, Anex V, Part 1. Counterparty breakdown across all templates shall align with ECB statistical requirements ECB/2008/32. In Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 of the European Parliament and of the council of 21 May 2013 on European system of national and regional accounts in the European Union, in paragraph 19.12. is stated that “The European Investment Bank and the European Investment fund are separate institutional units classified in the “Other financial intermediaries, except insurance corporations and pension funds” subsector (S.125) of the “financial corporations” sector (S.12)”. 1) Does FINREP follow this Regulation (EU) No 549/2013 in case of The European Investment Bank and the European Investment fund classification? 2) What counterparty sector for purpose of FINREP is the European Financial Stability Facility classified into? 3) Is there any list of European institutions including information about its counterparty sectors for purposes of FINREP available?

  • 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_139
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014