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Reporting of SA exposures in IRB-CIU look-through

Do CIU exposures for which the IRB look-through approach is applied, but which are subject to the Standardised Approach for calculating the risk-weighted exposure amount as per Article 152(4), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, have to be reported in template C 07.00 (CR SA) or in the C 08 templates (CR IRB)?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6528
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/05/2023

Return to non default status

Can any delay in payments be allowed in the context of the minimum conditions for reclassification to a non-defaulted status as stated in Section 7 of the EBA Guidelines on the new Definition of Default (DoD)? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2016/07 - Guidelines on the application of the definition of default under Article 178 CRR
  • ID: 2022_6527
  • Topic: Model validation
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 31/03/2023

Level 2A Assets market value in C 66.01 counterbalancing capacity section.

How should the market value of Level 2A Assets be reported in C66 Maturity Ladder in Section 3.4 Counterbalancing Capacity Level 2A Assets?  

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6525
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 25/01/2023

Evidences / Records to be stored by account servicing payment service providers (ASPSP) for payment initiation service (PIS) and account information service (AIS) requests

Shall ASPSP keep record of PIS requests received through a PISP and evidences on the authenticity and execution of these payment transactions when SCA is managed by ASPSP ?  Shall ASPSP keep record of the consent of the PSU and also of the AIS requests received through an AISP ? For both evidences is there any specific retention period ?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6526
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/09/2023

Disclosure of Template CR2 where NPE threshold of =>5% has not been breached

As per the mapping tool provided by the EBA, the Pillar 3 Disclosure Templates - 'CR2' is mapped to FinRep Template 24.1. This particular FinRep template is only reportable where the ratio of gross carrying amount of non-performing loans and advances divided by the total gross carrying amount of loans and advances subject to the definition of non-performing according to Article 47a of the CRR is equal to or higher than 5%. One therefore would assume that the 'CR2' Pillar 3 Disclosure template is not required unless the threshold is breached. However, Article 9 within the Pillar 3 ITS appears to imply that that 'CR2' is required regardless of the threshold by large institutions, as called out specifically as part of Point 1(e) of Article 9, This is also apparent in Point 3 of Article 9, where 'CR2' is not mentioned within the paragraph concerned as being a template that is determined for disclosure depending on the threshold. Can the EBA confirm the position on the same, given the requirement from the reporting perspective.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/637 - ITS with regard to disclosures of information referred to in Titles II and III of Part Eight CRR
  • ID: 2022_6524
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/06/2023

Treatment of TIPS and IP in AE reporting

Should balances kept on accounts related to TIPS (TARGET Instant Payment Settlement) and IP (Instant payments) in the encumbrance reporting, be reported as encumbered or not?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6523
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Treatment of additional collateral on top of overcollateralization of Covered bond program

Should a surplus above overcollateralization (above contractual amounts/percentages and also above what rating agencies require to maintain the rating) within a covered bond programme be considered as encumbered, when release and re-assignment of any security requires a signature from external parties (incl. the trustee for the covered bond programme) based on the programme documentation? If the required signature before withdrawal should still be seen as resulting in encumbrance, also in the case of the situation described below, would it then be relevant, if the Trustee contractually would not be able to say ‘No’ if the after the requested withdrawal the required overcollateralization threshold are still met?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6522
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Use of Turnover taxonomy eligibility/alignment or Capex taxonomy eligibility/alignment for Pillar 3 Risks ESG disclosures

Question 1: We interpret that the wording "general purpose lending part" excludes “specialised lending” and it leaves the door open to derive that Capex may be used for specialised lending and/or when the use of proceeds is known. Could you please indicate if for some of the Pillar 3 reports the Capex taxonomy eligibility/alignment should be used instead of the turnover taxonomy eligibility/alignment. If yes, may you please precise under which conditions Capex taxonomy eligibility/alignment should be used and to which report it applies and potentially to which columns/rows if relevant. Question 2: Is there any intentional distinction between the wording “use of proceeds is known” versus the wording “specialised lending”? If yes, could you explain the difference?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2022/2453 - ITS on ESG disclosures
  • ID: 2022_6521
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/11/2022

F 46 EBA_v1226

How to match the re-translated opening balance (in current year) with closing balance (from prior year) on F 46 when the constant USD value is being converted to EURO in two different reporting periods with different FX rate? If the same prior year converted value in EURO is stated in opening balance (before restatement row 10), then how and which row does the FX translation impact shall be reflected?  

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6520
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/05/2023

Article 111 or about

What CCF and provisions should be allocated, if any, in year 1/2/3/4 considering this special situation that I cannot find in the regulation?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2019/01 - Guidelines on specification of types of exposures to be associated with high risk under Article 128(3) of CRR
  • ID: 2022_6519
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 28/10/2022

Clarification of the definition for "residence"

In the template FIN 20.4, we need to restitute engagement under a geographical breakdown by residence of a counterparty. Immediate counterparty is clearly defined in the annex 5 but the definition of residence is not detailled. Could you give us a more detailed definition for the residence to use for the production of data into this template?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6518
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 10/03/2023

Multiple collaterals reporting for Pillar 3 ESG risks disclosure, Template 2 and 5

In case a loan has multiple collaterals (of which immovable property and also other collateral types) should the entire gross carrying amount be reported as collateralised by the immovable property or should the amount be pro-rated?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2022/2453 - ITS on ESG disclosures
  • ID: 2022_6517
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/11/2022

NACE codes for the sectors that highly contribute to climate change for Pillar 3 ESG risks disclosure, Template 1

Included in the template’s rows of the Sectors that highly contribute to climate change we find also Sector I (Accommodation and food service activities) in row 51, while in the instructions and in the Commission Delegated Regulation it’s clearly stated that such sectors include only NACE Sectors A to H and L. Is it a typo, or else what is the reason behind this? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6516
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 04/11/2022

Maturity reporting for Pillar 3 ESG risks disclosure, Template 1 and 5

How should we treat products without stated maturity (such as on demand, equity, perpetual loans) in the maturity buckets and in the average weighted maturity computation? E.g. perpetual loans will probably end up in the >20 years bucket, but which year should we use for the computation of the average weighted maturity? Or Equity holdings are mentioned in the instructions, but it's not clear in which maturity bucket we should report them and which year to use for the computation of the average weighted maturity.  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2022/2453 - ITS on ESG disclosures
  • ID: 2022_6515
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/11/2022

Residential Immovable Property

Paragraph of ANNEX XL - Instructions for disclosure of ESG risks states that "Institutions shall include in this template information on exposures in the banking book (including loans and advances, debt securities and equity instruments not held-for-trading and not held-for-sale), towards non-financial corporates, on loans collateralized with immovable property and on repossessed real estate collaterals, exposed to chronic and acute climate-related hazards, with a breakdown by sector of economic activity (NACE classification) and by geography of location of the activity of the counterparty or of the collateral, for those sectors and geographical areas subject to climate change acute and chronic events." It is not entirely clear to us if retail residential mortgages are in scope of template 5 for Physical Risk Discjosures? or if only loans towards NFCs shoudl be taken into account? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6514
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/11/2022

Scope of templates C 08.05 and C 08.05.1

What is the criterion that an exposure class must meet to be included in template C 08.05.1 (“Credit risk and free deliveries: IRB approach to capital requirements: back-testing of PD”)? Should the exposures included in that template be complementary of those included in template C 08.05 (“Credit risk and free deliveries: IRB approach to capital requirements: back-testing of PD”) or should an extra detail be provided for certain categories? From the point of view of Pillar 3 disclosures, the same question applies to tables EU CR9.1 and EU CR.9 respectively, as they replicate the content and structure of the mentioned reporting templates.

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6513
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 29/06/2023

Scope of the C 08.07 template

Where a group as defined in Article 4 of CRR has both SA and IRB exposures, what should be the scope of the total exposure value subject to SA and IRB as defined on column 0020 of template C 08.07 - Credit risk and free deliveries: IRB approach to Capital Requirements (Scope of use of IRB and SA approaches)? Should the scope only include entities consolidated within the group with permission to use the IRB approach, or should it include all entities consolidated within the Group, even those with no permission to use IRB approach and no IRB exposures?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6512
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 21/04/2023

v6566_s - Negative FV changes of hedged items (C 32.01)

How should negative fair value changes of the hedged items in portfolio hedge of interest rate risk be reported in the context of the prudent valuation templates in COREP (C 32.01)?

  • 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
  • ID: 2022_6511
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 14/06/2023

Template 10: other climate change mitigating actions

Should template 10 include exposures to counterparties not included in GAR e.g., exposures to be included in BTAR (template 9) or exposures that is either taxonomy eligible or aligned?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6510
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 20/10/2022

Template 10: Other climate change mitigating actions - Repurchases double counting

How do we avoid double counting if we invest in our own covered bonds? Both the loan and the covered bond will be in Template 10.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2022/2453 - ITS on ESG disclosures
  • ID: 2022_6509
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/11/2022