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Validation of LCR Submission

Is validation rule v1512_m correct?v1512 m - C52.00, Row 1140 - 1210, Additional Outflows: As it is not explicitly clear from the rules or guidance as to how to treat cash assets (e.g. cash held at a bank) in this particular section, it has been interpreted that the columns to be populated are as follows: - {c030} Market Value: Represents the market value of non-cash assets (i.e. excludes cash balances) - {c040} Value according to Article 418: Represents (i) the market value of non-cash assets after the deduction of an appropriate haircut as per Article 418, plus (ii) the full value of cash balances, in line with Article 416(1)(a). - {c020} Outflow: Outflow calculated based on cash and non-cash assets as prescribed by Article 423. Based on the interpretation above, as cash balances are excluded from {c030} Market Value, validation v1512_m fails.

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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: 2014_1473
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/03/2021

C 41.00 - Inconsistency between Validations and EBA member/dimension types causes validation v0668_m to fail

Validation rule v0668_m states that r{r010} = sum(r020-100). We believe this validation rule will fail due to the fact that the categorisation of row 100 (x3 - 'Defaulted') for dimension Impairment status is different than the one for row 010 (x5 -'Non defaulted') which represents the total as per the validation rule.

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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: 2014_1466
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 03/02/2017

Template C 08.02 - Col 080 has Missing 'CRM Effects/Collateral' dimension

In template C 08.02, col 080 is defined without the dimension 'CRM Effects/Collateral [CRM]'. This looks logically incorrect and would also result in failure of validation rule: v0347_m {c090} = {c020} + {c070} + {c080}

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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: 2014_1464
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/12/2019

Large Exposures - maturity buckets

Is it possible to report negative amounts in some maturity buckets of the exposure in LE4 and LE5 templates? According to the validation rules, every column in template LE4 and LE5 should be larger than or equal to zero.

  • 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: 2014_1455
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/03/2015

The approach that AMA credit institutions should use when determining the relevant indicator in order to fill in C 16.00 – Operational risk template.

Which is the approach that AMA credit institutions should use when computing the relevant indicator that should be reported in line 130 columns 010-030 of the C 16.00 – Operational risk template?

  • 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: 2014_1448
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/03/2015

Treatment of central banks as non-financial customers or financial customers

If an institution has unsecured deposits from a central bank, are those deposits from financial customers or deposits from non-financial customers?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1446
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:

Groups of connected clients when a client is connected through various criteria (interconnection through control and / or economic interconnection)

As defined in Article 4(1)(39) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), clients can be included into ‘groups of connected clients’ through criteria of control (Article 4(1)(39)(a)) or economic interconnection (Article 4(1)(39)(b)).What is the correct treatment of exposure to a client in case when the client is connected with other natural or legal persons through criteria of control and / or economic interconnection?Should the institution include and report all those clients connected with particular client as one ‘group of connected clients’ regardless of criteria of connection (control vs. economic interconnection) or should the institution include and report particular client in two (or more) groups where one group includes clients that are connected with particular client through criteria of control and the other separate group (or more groups) is formed of clients that are connected with particular client through criteria of economic interconnection?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1443
  • Topic: Large exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/11/2017

Reporting the income or expense resulting from the recalculation of the carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability as prescribed by IFRS 9.B5.4.6.

Our question is where (under what item) should be presented in the template F 02.00 “Statement of profit or loss” the income or expense resulting from the recalculation of the carrying amount of the financial asset or financial liability as prescribed by IFRS 9.B5.4.6. Furthermore, it would be helpful for us to have your confirmation that the respective adjustment is deducted when presenting the gross carrying amount of the financial asset.

  • 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: 2014_1441
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/02/2022

Securities Lending

In the guidance on asset encumbrance Annex XVII, chapter 2.1.1, paragraph 14 (d) it states that ‘where the securities lent as collateral are received by the reporting institution, their fair value is reported in {AE-COL; *; c010}, {AE-SOU; r150; c030} and {AE-SOU; r150; c040}’.However, {r150; c040} is greyed out in template F 32.04.Please advise whether this data point will be available for input. 

  • 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: 2014_1431
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/07/2017

Recognition of contractual netting agreements by the competent authority

Should the provision of Article 296(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) that “competent authorities shall recognise a contractual netting agreement …” be understood as a requirement to have an acceptance made by the supervisory authority, in particular in the course of performing its on-site or off-site activities, or rather to receive a formal permission (e.g. in a form of an administrative decision) of a competent authority?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1424
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 12/12/2014

Internal model for correlation trading

For an internal model for incremental default risk and migration risk “an institution may choose to consistently use a one-year constant position assumption.” (Second sentence of Article 374 (4) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)). Does an institution also have this choice for an internal model for correlation trading?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1422
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 19/12/2014

Row 030 C07.00 reported also for exposure class of protection provider

Should the part of the "eligible" SME exposure according to Article 501 CRR that is secured with e.g. guarantee be reported in the row 030 (C07.00) in the exposure class of the guarantor and also be subject to the supporting factor?

  • 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: 2014_1419
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 02/10/2015

Significance of the term ‘without prejudice’ in Article 86 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)

Article 86 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) sets out a general principle of limitation of minority interests / external resources on Additional Tier 1 capital. This article explicitly provides that this limitation is ‘without prejudice to Article 84(5) and (6)’. Article 84 of the CRR sets a principle of limitation of minority interests in the computation of consolidated Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) capital. However, the exception under Article 84(6) CRR allows institutions to recognise all minority interests when included in the scope of an Institutional Protection Scheme (IPS) completed with a cross-guarantee scheme. Does the term ‘without prejudice’ mean that the exception for CET1 capital provided for in Article 84(6) can be applied by analogy to the instruments of Article 86 in order to avoid a partial recognition on the Additional Tier 1 capital.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1415
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/06/2015

Groups including investment firm(s) referred to in Article 95(1) and investment firm(s) referred to in Article 96(1) and not including credit institutions.

What method of calculating the own funds requirement should be used when a group consists of both 95(1) and 96(1) investments firm and no credit institutions?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1414
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Balance Sheet Netting as a CRM technique

Is Balance Sheet Netting according to Article 195 limited to Cash Balances in the same currency?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1413
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Refinancing

Does a derecognition on an institution’s balance sheet of a forborne contract lead to an end of the forborne exposure and end to reporting duty?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1412
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/03/2021

Embedded forbearance clauses

Does it lead to a forborne status of the contract if executing embedded forbearance clauses (e.g. payment holiday and partial write off), incorporated in Dutch Nationale Hypotheek Garantie mortgages?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1411
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/03/2021

Group Solvency report: The content of the column 390 “Contributions to consolidated result” of the Group Solvency report

Does the content of column 390 “Contributions to consolidated result” of the Group Solvency report correspond with the row 130 “Retained earnings” of the CA1 report (C 01.00) on group level (subgroup level) or rather with the sum of the rows 280 “Cumulative gains and losses due to changes in own credit risk on fair valued liabilities” and 285 “Fair value gains and losses arising from the institution's own credit risk related to derivative liabilities” of the CA1 report on group level (subgroup level)?Expressed as formulas: {GS;c390} = {CA1;r130} or {GS;c390} = {CA1;r130} + {CA1;r280} + {CA1;r285}? (Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 [ITS on Reporting], Annex II, C 06.00, c390)

  • 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: 2014_1398
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/10/2016

Group Solvency report: The distinction between the contents of the columns 350 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” and 400 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” of the Group Solvency report

To what extent the contents of the columns 350 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” and 400 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” differ from each other? Does the content of the column 400 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” of the Group Solvency report correspond with the row 300 “Goodwill” of the CA1 report on group level (subgroup level) in case of goodwill (not negative goodwill)? Furthermore, does the content of column 350 “Goodwill / Negative goodwill” of the Group Solvency exclusively concern the goodwill / negative goodwill referring to minority interests? (EBA/ITS/2013/02, Annex II, C 06.00, c350, c400, pp. 59, 60)

  • 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: 2014_1397
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 10/09/2021

Group Solvency report: Reporting of the columns 300 to 350 and columns 360 to 400

Shall a consolidated entity which contributes to the group’s consolidated own funds by minority interests but also by other means exclusively report columns 300 to 350 or additionally columns 360 to 400? (Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 (ITS on Reporting), Annex II, C 06.01 / C 06.02, c300 to c400)

  • 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: 2014_1396
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 14/10/2016