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C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 290

Field 290 - First Foreseeable Termination Date. Firstly, if there is no call date and the clean-up date is not known (e.g. for an Investor position), what do we report here? Secondly, if there is a call date but this is now in the past (i.e. hasn't yet been called) what do we report here?

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or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)

Deposits with higher outflows

Does the Article 7 of Part 2 (Title II) of the EBA Guidelines on retail deposits subject to different outflows for the purposes of liquidity reporting (risk factor "maturing fixed-term or notice period") also relate to the savings accounts and transactional sight accounts with no legal maturity or is this article targeting mainly term deposits and other term products with contractual notice period? If yes, does it mean that the part of deposits under Deposit Guarantee Scheme (Article 421(1) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013) from clients having more than 100.000 EUR is also subject to higher outflows of more than 10%, as the deposit has 2 risk factors (high value deposit and deposit with notice period?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Deductions of holdings of own funds instruments issued by financial sector entities included in the scope of consolidated supervision under art 49.2 CRR

For what specific purposes competent authorities may determine deductions of holdings of own funds instruments issued by financial sector entities included in the scope of consolidated supervision, apart from purposes mentioned in art 49.2: i.e. structural separation of banking activities and resolution planning? Should competent authorities determine deductions for all institutions in the member state or should it be more institution specific decision? In case of institution specific decision, should it be subject to joint decision, taken by the competent authorities of the home and host Member States?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Potential future exposure for options

According to Mark-to-Market method set out in Article 274 Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), institutions should calculate potential future exposure and, as we understand, for options delta equivalent might be used as it is applied for Position risk? In case of OTC-options should institution have permission by the competent authorities for using institution's own delta model?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 210

Field 210 - (-) Value Adjustments and Provisions. Do the value adjustments and provisions reported here related to the securitised exposures or the securitised positions? Guidelines are contradictory.

  • 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)

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 100

Field 100 - Compliance with the Retention Requirement?. How do we report for Investor positions originated prior to 2011?

  • 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)

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 090

Field 090 - % of Retention at Reporting Date. Do we report percentage retention at reporting date or at origination? Secondly, how are Investor positions to be reported given the information is not publicly 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)

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 080

Field 080 - Type of Retention Applied. How do we report for Investor positions? Information is not publicly 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)

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 050

Field 050 - Accounting Treatment: Securitised Exposures are kept or removed from the Balance Sheet?. How should Investor positions be reported here?

  • 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)

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 030

Field 030 - Identifer of the Originator. How are multi-seller securitisations to be reported for Investor positions?

  • 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)

Inflows - Monies due from non-financial customers

What should be considered as “contractual commitment to extend funding”, is it entire granted off-balance commitment for particular client (e.g. credit card limits) or amount which is contractually going to be transferred to this client over 30 day horizon? Should the cap be calculated on the net basis for all clients on the client-by-client basis?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

C 14.00 – DETAILED INFORMATION ON SECURITISATIONS (SEC DETAILS) - FIELD 020

Field 020 - Identifer of the Securitisation. What should be reported here when the first eight characters of the ISIN are not common to all tranches of a securitisation? Secondly, different securitisations can have the same first eight characters, is this a problem?

  • 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)

Scope of the CR IRB template

Concerning the EBA reporting of the templates “C 08.01.c - Credit and counterparty credit risks and free deliveries: IRB Approach to capital requirements - TOTAL (SMEs subject to supporting factor)” and “C 08.01.d - Credit and counterparty credit risks and free deliveries: IRB Approach to capital requirements - TOTAL - Of which arising from counterparty credit risk and off balance sheet (SMEs subject to supporting factor)”, we think that the two sheets 22 and 23 of the last Data Point Model (2013/12/02) not have to be treated. Indeed sheet 022 is entitled “Retail - Secured by immovable property SME subject to SME-supporting factor - without own estimates of LGD or conversion factors” and sheet 023, “Retail - Other SME subject to SME-supporting factor - without own estimates of LGD or conversion factors” Whereas it is explained in ANNEX II - REPORTING ON OWN FUNDS AND OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS, part. 3.3.1 (Scope of the CR IRB template), that in any case, for the reporting of the retail portfolios, own estimates of LGD and credit conversion factors are used (Advanced IRB) Moreover those sheets would represent “of which” of non existing positions ? Extract of ANNEX II - REPORTING ON OWN FUNDS AND OWN FUNDS REQUIREMENTS, part. 3.3.1 (Scope of the CR IRB template) : Scope of the CR IRB template The scope of the CR IRB template covers own funds requirements for: i. Credit risk in the banking book, among which:  Counterparty credit risk in the banking book;  Dilution risk for purchased receivables; ii. Counterparty credit risk in the trading book; iii. Free deliveries resulting from all business activities.. The scope of the template refers to the exposures for which the risk weighted exposure amounts are calculated according to Articles 151 to 157 Part Three Title II Chapter 3 CRR (IRB approach). The CR IRB template does not cover the following data: i. Equity exposures, which are reported in the CR EQU IRB template; ii. Securitisation positions, which are reported in the CR SEC SA, CR SEC IRB and/or CR SEC Details templates; iii. “Other non-obligation assets”, according to Article 147 (2) point (g) CRR. The risk weight for this exposure class has to be set at 100 % at any time except for cash in hand, equivalent cash items and exposures that are residual values of leased assets, according to Article 156 CRR. The risk weighted exposure amounts for this exposure class are reported directly in the CA-Template; iv. Credit valuation adjustment risk, which is reported on the CVA Risk template; The CR IRB template does not require a geographical breakdown of IRB exposures by residence of the counterparty. This breakdown is reported in the template CR GB. In order to clarify whether the institution uses its own estimates for LGD and/or credit conversion factors the following information shall be provided for each reported exposure class: "NO" = in case the supervisory estimates of LGD and credit conversion factors are used (Foundation IRB) "YES" = in case own estimates of LGD and credit conversion factors are used (Advanced IRB) In any case, for the reporting of the retail portfolios "YES" has to be reported. In case an institution uses own estimates of LGDs to calculate risk weighted exposure amounts for a part of its IRB exposures as well as uses supervisory LGDs to calculate risk weighted exposure amounts for the other part of its IRB exposures, an CR IRB Total for F-IRB positions and one CR IRB Total for A-IRB positions has to be reported. Could you please confirm our opinion ?

  • 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)

C 60.00 Items requiring stable funding - treatment of NPLs

How should non-performing non-renewable loans be reported in the template C 60.00? Should they be reported in rows 900-1250 i.e. 'non-renewable loans and receivables' or row 1300 'any other assets', and what maturity bucket should they be assigned to?

  • 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)

Mark to market method, application of the mark to market reset

Would it be consistent with the intent of the CRR, if the adjustment to the residual maturity is made in circumstances where the terms of the trade are reset such that the mark to market of the contract is materially close but not perfectly zero? If this were not the case, it would be highly unlikely that under valuation principles imposed by current accounting standards and regulatory requirements that the clause could ever be applied in practice.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

C 07.00 CR SA STD Column 215: which amount should be display in Column 215 for exposures NOT subject to SME-supporting factor? Should we display 0 or the amount of risk weighted assets?

C 07.00 CR SA STD Column 215: which amount should be display in Column 215 for exposures NOT subject to SME-supporting factor? Should we display 0 or the amount of risk weighted assets?

  • 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)

Validations FINREP

Regarding FINREP validations: 1) v779_m / F 01.03: {r090} = {r100} + {r110} + {r120} + {r130} + {r140} + {r150} + {r160} + {r170} + {r180}. Why are {r122} and {r124} not also part of the formula? 2) cell (r90, c90) refers "Conversion of debt to equity", which is disabled for data entry. What is the reason?

  • 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)

Definition of Additional Tier 1 instruments for the purposes of Article 141 of Directive 2013/36/EU

For the application of Article 141 of Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) regarding distribution limitations (Maximum Distributable Amount (MDA)), should Additional Tier 1 (AT1) instruments be defined as instruments that meet the conditions set out in Article 52 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) or should it also include instruments that are grandfathered in the AT1 category through the application of the various grandfathering provisions? If grandfathered instruments are also included, how is this consistent with the grandfathering amortisation profile applicable to some instruments (i.e. instruments are not eligible / not eligible on an individual basis but there is simply a maximum stock of old hybrid instruments that are reported as AT1) and with the possible pusher provisions that exist in many old instruments?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Residence of the counterparty - short positions

Table 20.6 of FINREP contains a geographical breakdown of liabilities by residence of the counterparty. Nonetheless, there is no guidance on how to determine the counterparty in the case of short positions.

  • 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)