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Treatment of loans for LBO financing according to the GLs on high risk items

How should loans which constitute leveraged buyout (LBO) financing be treated according to the Guidelines on  specification of types of exposures to be associated with high risk? Should information, that a loan is collateralised by shares in an unlisted company, have decisive impact on its treatment as potentially being "debt exposure with economic substance similar to non-debt exposure" according to the paragraph 2 of section 4.1 of the Guidelines? 

  • 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: 2019_4952
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/07/2021

Risk weight attribution to loans guaranteed by third counterparties in NSFR

If a credit institution has granted loans to customers (Retail, SME or Corporate counterparties) where the customer has a guarantor for the loan (personal guarantees), which is a Sovereign/PSEs or a third financial institution, what risk weight should be attributed to those loans for purposes of NSFR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4951
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/02/2022

Amended ranking requirement in point (d) of Article 63 of the CRR

Which interpretation of the new requirement in point (d) of Article 63 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/876 is correct?Do all banks need to amend the T&Cs of their Tier 2 instruments due to the new wording of point (d) of Article 63 of the CRR in order to be CRR-compliant (considering that there is no respective grandfathering provision in the CRR)? orDo banks for which the resolution authority does not set a subordination requirement with respect to MREL or banks for which the MREL requirement consists solely of the loss absorption amount (as the respective bank is to be wound up under normal insolvency proceedings and not subject to resolution) remain compliant with the new wording in point (d) of Article 63 of the CRR without the need to amend their respective T&Cs?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4950
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 12/03/2021

Grandfathering according to Articles 494a and 494b of the CRR

Should Article 494a(1) and (2) of the CRR also cover points (p), (q), and (r) of Article 52(1) and points (n), (o) and (p) of Article 63, respectively?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4949
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 12/03/2021

Notification to Competent Authority for the use of the adjustment referred to in Article 500 (1) CRR

Does an Institution that wants to apply the adjustment on its LGD estimates by partly or fully offsetting the effect of massive disposals of defaulted exposures on realised LGDs in line with Article 500 CRR have to notify the respective competent authority in accordance with Article 143 CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4948
  • Topic: Model validation
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Residual maturity of the source of encumbrance

What is the residual maturity of an ABS issued, the WAL or the FORD? For an encumbrance reason without maturity date, should we place it in the bucket Open Maturity or in the bucket 5yrs <= 10 yrs, as stated in Annex XXV, 1.1. 12 (e)

  • 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: 2019_4946
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2021

Failed validation checks due to the implementation of a new separate line item ‘cash contributions to resolution funds and deposit guarantee schemes’ (r385) in template F 02.00 and missing consistent change in template F 20.03 under DPM 2.9

Regardless of an institution’s view on the nature of cash contributions to resolution funds and deposit guarantee schemes in the financial statements, the introduction of a new separate line item ‘cash contributions to resolution funds and deposit guarantee schemes’ (r385) in template F 02.00 under DPM 2.9 combined with an unchanged template F 20.03 leads to a break of blocking validation rules. That shows the need for further guidance or requires an adjustment of template F 20.03 in conformity with the structure of template F 02.00 regarding single line items and totals items.

  • 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: 2019_4943
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/09/2020

Use of short-term credit assessments with Article 120(2) CRR

May short-term issuer or issue ratings be used to assign risk weights in the general preferential treatment for short term exposures of article 120(2) CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4942
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/12/2021

Use of short-term issuer credit assessments with Article 131

May short-term issuer ratings be used to assign risk weights in the context of article 131?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4941
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Prudential backstop (Regulation 2019/630) and interaction with RWA calculation

Is the prudential backstop deficit under Article 151(1) taken into consideration for the calculation of risk-weighted assets on exposures treated under the advanced IRB approach?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4938
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

SCA for contactless payments at a POS executed via a mobile device

1) Can we consider the strong customer authentication (SCA) outsourced from the issuer of cards to the payer? 2) Is it necessary for the issuer of the cards to perform SCA based on the elements of identification that are beyond its control?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2018/389 - RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication
  • ID: 2019_4937
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/09/2020

Residential Reverse mortgages RWA

Could you clarify the regulatory RWA treatment for residential reverse mortgages exposure? Are those exposures subject to the standardised approach for RWA calculation?Is the regulatory treatment linked to the level of loan to value (LTV) the same as residential mortgages?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4934
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/02/2022

IFRS 9 transitional arrangements – calculation of the static component in case of afterwards permission for the IRB approach

If an institution gets the permission to use the IRB approach only after 1 January 2018 or the date of initial application of IFRS 9, as applicable, how should the institution calculate the amounts for the transitional arrangements permitted by Article 473a CRR and, in particular, the static component according to paragraph 2 of Article 473a CRR for those IRB exposures to which the standardised approach applied on the 31 December 2017 or the day before the date of initial application of IFRS 9, as applicable?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4928
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Classification of credit insurance undertakings as financial institution

Will a credit insurance undertaking whose principal activity is to issue guarantees (as listed in Annex 1 of Directive 2013/36/EC) be deemed to be a "financial institution"?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4926
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

C 32.02 - Prudent Valuation: Core approach (PRUVAL 2); column 0160 (IPV Difference) and C 32.03 - Prudent Valuation: Model Risk AVA (PRUVAL 3); column 0110 (IPV Difference Output Testing)) and C 32.04 - Prudent Valuation: Concentrated Positions AVA (PRUVAL 4); column 0100 (IPV Difference)

What sign convention is expected for “IPV Difference” amounts in templates C32.02 (column 0160), C32.03 (column 0110) and C32.04 (column 0100)? Should validation rule v6341_m ({r0020} <= {r0010}, i.e. o/w Trading Book <= Total Core Approach) be modified to evaluate the absolute values in the equation?

  • 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: 2019_4924
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2021

C 32.02 - Prudent Valuation: Core approach (PRUVAL 2); column 0260 (DAY1 P&L) and C 32.03 - Prudent Valuation: Model Risk AVA (PRUVAL 3); column 150 (DAY1 P&L)

What sign convention is expected for “Day 1 P&L” amounts in templates C32.02 (column 0260) and C32.03 (column 150)?

  • 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: 2019_4923
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2021

Safeguarding requirements

Are transactions where both the payer and the payee are outside the EEA (e.g. a transfer between China and Hong Kong) outside the scope of the safeguarding requirements or not?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4921
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Inclusion (or not) of a particular "timing loss" in the C 16.00 and C 17.00 template

Shall a particular "timing loss" in the Operational Risk Losses be included or not in the reporting template for operational risk?

  • 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: 2019_4920
  • Topic: Operational risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Interpretation of payment instrument

What devices or procedures can be considered as payment instrument as per Art. 4(14) of PSD2.

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4919
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022