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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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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

FINREP: Multilateral banks

Is there any list of multilateral banks for FINREP purposes 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_138
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 07/03/2014

FINREP: Definition of Credit institutions and Other financial corporations

This question asks for a clarification of the definition of Credit institutions (bank and multilateral banks) and Other financial corporations for financial information templates (FINREP) foreseen by EBA FINAL draft implementing Technical Standards 2013-02 published on 26 July 2013, Anex V, Part 1. Counterparty breakdown across all templates shall align with ECB statistical requirements ECB/2008/32. The Article 1 of that ECB regulation provide us with definition of MFI and breakdown of MFI to a) central banks, b) credit institutions as defined in Article 4(1) of Directive 2006/48/EC and c) other MFIs (e.g. Money market funds). For purpose of FINREP it is not clear if c) other MFIs (e.g. Money market funds) as defined in ECB Regulation shall be classified as Credit institutions sector (bank and multilateral banks) or Other financial corporations sector.

  • 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_137
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Transfer Restrictions

There is no definition within the Regulation of 'Transfer Restrictions' referred to in article 417(b) with regards to excess liquid assets in third countries

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_136
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/11/2013

Evidence that a client is unable to withdraw amounts legally due over a 30 day period without compromising its operational functioning

With regards to both: • deposits in the context of Clearing, Custody and Cash Management, Article 422(3)(a) and (d) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), • deposits in the context of an established operational relationship Article 422(3)(c) (recognising the definition of an established operational relationship here is pending from the EBA), what type of 'evidence' are institutions required to demonstrate (Article 422(4)) and how conclusive does this evidence need to be for the deposit to be considered eligible? Also, with regard to Article 422(3)(c), it would appear from Article 509(2)(k) that established operational relationships will only be seen with non-financial corporates. Can you confirm if this is the case?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_135
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:

Counterparty Credit Risk

Article 273(6) outlines that "For a given counterparty, the exposure value for a given netting set of OTC derivative instruments listed in Annex II calculated in accordance with this Chapter shall be the greater of zero and the difference between the sum of exposure values across all netting sets with the counterparty and the sum of CVA for that counterparty being recognised by the institution as an incurred write-down" In the event that an institution does not fulfil the conditions outlined in Article 296 & Article 297 and as a result does not benefit from the recognition of contractual netting agreements, can this institution then reduce the exposure value by the amount of the CVA for that counterparty that has been recognised as an incurred write down when calculating exposure value?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_134
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/03/2014

Large exposures: LE4 and LE5 on maturity buckets for institution's and unregulated entities applies to firms reporting on solo basis.

Do COREP templates LE4 and LE5, which contains the maturity structure of 10 largest exposures to unregulated financial entities apply to an entity reporting on solo basis?

  • 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_133
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Cash in CIUs and its impact on CIUs being treated as liquid assets

According to Article 416(5) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) CIUs may be treated as liquid assets provided that, among other things, they only invest in liquid assets as referred to in Article 416(1). Typically CIUs hold cash to a certain extent (e.g. 1-10 %) in order to secure their liquidity. However, would it lead the shares or units in the CIU being ineligible for liquid assets if the CIU deposited the cash at another bank, because credit institutions are not included in Article 416(1)? Alternatively would the CIU have to hold the cash directly at the ECB (or inside a bank safe in cash) for being eligible?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_132
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/11/2013

Large exposures: Definitions of ‘institutions’ for the purpose of the LE reporting

‘Investment funds’ is not a defined term within Article 4 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

  • 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_131
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014

Scope of calculation of own funds requirements for CVA risk

Can you provide some details on what criteria and/or thresholds are likely to apply in order to determine that securities financing transactions are material in the context of article 382(2)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_130
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/11/2013

Definition of ‘retail deposit’

How should liabilities to clients who have not been classified to any segment under the Standardised or Advanced IRB (AIRB) approach be treated? Those clients placed only deposits with the bank and therefore the bank does not have sufficient data to assign them to any segment.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_128
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/11/2013

FINREP - template F14 changes for the period

Are changes relevant "for the period" to be reported year-to-date (YTD) or only of the last quarter?

  • 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_126
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/02/2014