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Exposures in default secured by mortgages on residential property

How to classify an exposures, that is secured by mortgages on residential property and, according to the Article 124(2) of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 (CRR), is assigned a 150% risk weight and, at the same time, qualifies as 'Exposures in default' and meets the criteria listed in Article 127(1)(b) or (3) CRR, to assign it a 100 % risk weight?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_6018
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 03/03/2023

Point in time when facility or limit is considered to be a commitment

Does a bank’s legally binding offer for a facility or limit constitute a commitment only after the client has accepted the bank’s offer?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5836
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

Treatment of committed facilities with unadvised limits

Are committed facilities with unadvised limits considered to be regulatory off-balance sheet items and do they have to be included in the conversion factor estimation under Advanced-IRBA?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5837
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

treatment of uncommitted facilities / limits

Are uncommitted facilities or limits considered to be regulatory off-balance sheet items and do they have to be included in the conversion factor estimation under Advanced-IRBA?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5835
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:

Maturity calculation under IRB for exposures that only have contractual cashflows in the form of fees

Does Article 162(2)(a) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) apply to exposures for which cash flow schedules contractually payable by the obligor are only fee-related (e.g., as in the case of guarantees)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5773
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/12/2021

Treatment of guaranteed export financing transactions under Standardised Approach

Under the Standardised Approach for credit risk, can institutions apply a 0% risk weight to the guaranteed part of export financing transactions if (i) the loan is denominated and funded in the domestic currency of the central government acting as guarantor and (ii) the guarantee is also denominated in this currency while the domestic currency of the borrower is different?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5760
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 20/06/2022

Treatment of cured defaulted exposures

For the treatment of cured defaulted exposures, a probation period of 90 days with no default triggers must apply before the exposure is moved back to a non-defaulted status. According to Article 178(1)(b CRR) default shall be considered to have occurred with regard to a particular obligor when the obligor is more than 90 days past due on any material credit obligation. However, if the material arrears fall below the thresholds, the arrears counter will reset to 0. Should the probation period of 90 days with no default triggers apply before the exposure is moved back to a non-defaulted status?

  • 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: 2021_5754
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/12/2021

Supervisory delta for commodities with negative prices

Article 279a (1), (a) of the CRR establishes the formula to be used for calculating the supervisory delta of options mapped to all risk categories except for the interest rate category. Can such formula be made compatible with market conditions in which commodities may have negative prices?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5747
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 31/01/2025

Aggregation of separate client exposures for a transaction with underlying credit risk exposure

Is it necessary to group and aggregate all separate client exposures from a single transaction with underlying credit risk to one exposure and, as such, treat this aggregated separate client as a single client exposure?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 1187/2014 - RTS for determining the overall exposure to a client or a group of connected clients in respect of transactions with underlying assets
  • ID: 2021_5746
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/02/2022

Determination of risk weight for a pass-through SPE exposure with underlying assets where the transaction does not fulfil the conditions for securitisations according to Article 4(1)(61) CRR.

Should an exposure to an SPE transaction with underlying assets and a single class of debt (pass-through structure), which does not fulfil the criteria of Securitisation, be recognised to determine the risk weight of the exposure by applying a look-through approach to the underlying assets as suggested by Article 390(7) CRR regarding large exposures treatment? Or should such exposure be treated as a (unrated) corporate exposure in accordance with Article 122 CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5738
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/03/2023

Treatment of expected credit losses (ECL) of financial instruments accounted for under fair value through other comprehensive income (FVOCI)

For debt instruments that are measured at FVOCI under IFRS 9: 1. Do ECL impairments qualify as specific credit risk adjustments? 2. Is the original exposure pre-conversion for the FVOCI debt instrument equal to the carrying value?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 183/2014 - RTS for the calculation of specific and general credit risk adjustments
  • ID: 2021_5735
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 23/02/2023

AVC

Is AVC intended to apply to Multilateral Development Banks?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5715
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 20/06/2022

Look-through application under IRB approach

When an institution applies the look-through approach to units or shares of Collective Investment Undertaking (CIU) under the IRB approach and where the institution is allowed to use IRB advanced approach for the underlying credit exposures of the CIU in accordance with Article 148 CRR, can the institution still use the standard approach for those underlying exposures of which obligors are not internally rated and/or for which the information required for own LGD estimation are not available to the institution?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5712
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/12/2021

Calculation of the collateral value of immovable property considering minimum level of over-collateralisation ratio

Should the haircut due to minimum level of over-collateralisation be reflected in the calculation of collateral value with or without the deducted prior claims? Besides market value or mortgage lending value is there any other value that could be considered for the calculation purposes?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5685
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 17/12/2021

Allocation of direct costs associated with the realisation of funded credit protection in case of partial coverage of an exposure by unfunded credit protection

Does paragraph 38(c) of the EBA/GL/2020/05 require the allocation of direct costs associated with the realisation of the funded credit protection to the part of the exposure that is covered by the funded credit protection?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2020/05 - Guidelines on credit risk mitigation for institutions applying the IRB approach with own estimates of LGDs
  • ID: 2021_5677
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 24/09/2021

Definition of “prudential regulation in the Union” in Article 142(1)(4)(b)

Can insurance and re-insurance undertakings located in the EU be considered as non-prudentially regulated and therefore as non-eligible to the definition of large financial sector entity?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5666
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 28/10/2022

Treatment of non-performing exposures underlying a CIU

Could you clarify if non-performing exposures underlying a CIU should be subject to deductions in accordance with point (m) of Article 36(1) of CRR when using the look-through approach in accordance with Article 132a(1) of CRR or the mandate based approach in accordance with Article 132a(2) of CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5629
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/07/2022

Use of UTP triggers when default definition is on facility level

If an obligor has a mortgage loan and other loans (like credit card, private loan, business loans etc.) where definition of default is on the facility level, and the institution has certain obligor level triggers (bankruptcy, death, divorce etc.) and the obligor defaults on his mortgage (due to an obligor level trigger), should there be an automatic cross default on the other loans as well. If the opposite happens, i.e. the obligor defaults on one of the other loans (also due to an obligor level trigger) should the mortgage be defaulted as well?

  • 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: 2020_5592
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/02/2022

Unterstützungsfaktor für Infrastrukturprojekte - Supporting factor for infrastructure projects

Können sowohl der in Artikel 501 CRR genannte Faktor zur Unterstützung von KMU als auch der in Artikel 501a CRR genannte Faktor zur Unterstützung von Infrastruktur auf eine Risikoposition angewandt werden?Can the supporting factor for SMEs referred to in Article 501 CRR and the infrastructure supporting factor referred to in Article 501a CRR both be applied to an exposure?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5551
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/10/2024