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Treatment of an asset resulting from obligatory payments to Deposit Guarantee Scheme in Risk Weighted Assets calculation (Standardised Approach).

How should an asset resulting from prepayment of obligatory contribution to Deposit Guarantee Scheme be treated for the purpose of credit risk capital requirements calculation under the Standardised Approach?Should it be recognised as ‘Other assets’ (prepayments to unknown counterparty) or as an exposure to the Deposit Guarantee Scheme?Moreover, if the recognition as an exposure to the Deposit Guarantee Scheme is correct, is it possible to treat the Deposit Guarantee Scheme as a Public Sector Entity which can be treated under Article 116(4) CRR, and therefore assigned a 0% risk weight?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1890
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Definition of Aggregate Liabilities

Does the term ‘Aggregate Liabilities’ referred to in Article 415(2)(a), refers solely to ‘Liabilities’ or does it refer to ‘Liabilities and Equity’?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement
  • ID: 2015_2158
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Undrawn credit facility from central bank as inflow

Can you please confirm that any undrawn credit facility from a central bank counts as a liquidity inflow within the meaning of Article 32 of the LCR delegated act with a 100% inflow rate according to paragraph 2 of Article 32 of the delegated act, provided that there is no double counting with liquid assets and is not taken into account under Article 34 of the delegated act?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement
  • ID: 2015_2136
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Application of different Phase-In Rates for the Deduction of Deferred Tax Assets that Rely on Future Profitability

Article 478(2) of the CRR provides a discretion to competent authorities to apply a slower phase-in rate for the Deduction of Deferred Tax Assets that rely on Future Profitability for DTAs that existed prior to 1 January 2014. A 10% per annum phase in rate is applied for the DTAs that existed prior to 1 January 2014 while all other DTAs that were created post 1 January 2014 are subject to the normal phase in rates of 20% per annum. Clarification is required on how the different phase-in rates should be applied if the amount of DTAs (that rely on Future Profitability) in existence reduces below the initial amount recognised, due not to progressive deduction under the transition rules but rather due to usage against profit ? For example: Assume on 31 December 2014, the DTA balance is 100 which is made up of 60 that existed pre 1 January 2014 and 40 that existed post 1 January 2014. Assume that on 31 March 2015, the DTA balance reduces to 80 due to usage against profits. Should the DTA balance that existed pre 1 January 2014 be adjusted by the negative balances due to the DTA usage against profits i.e. should the slower phase-in rates be applied to the balance of 40?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 - RTS for Own Funds requirements for institutions
  • ID: 2015_1963
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Treatment of assets held at a central bank to provide intra-day collateral for supporting payment flows in a direct payment system for the calculation of end-of-day and reporting of assets available for High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA)

Are assets held in an account opened at a central bank for the purposes of providing intra-day collateral for the purposes of supporting payment flows in a direct payment system, to be treated as “unencumbered” for the purposes of end-of-day calculating and reporting of assets available for High Quality Liquid Assets (HQLA) under Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement?Where assets are held in an account opened at a central bank for the purposes of providing intra-day collateral in connection with the provision of funding for settlement activity, at end of the day should such assets be treated as “unencumbered” for the purposes of calculating and reporting assets available for HQLA? And are in this context the provisions of Article 7(2)(a) of DR (EU) 2015/61 applicable?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement
  • ID: 2015_1987
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Liquid assets under CRR/LCR

The primary question is how to consider the relation between CRR and LCR, i.e. shall the liquid assets under LCR be interpreted in accordance with the liquid assets definition under CRR? Provided that the answer is positive, how does this affect a see-through of a CIU that only partially consists of assets that are liquid under CRR? Under said circumstances, is there a risk that the non-liquid assets will contaminate the CIU as a whole, or is it possible that the share of the assets that is liquid can be covered by the LCR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement
  • ID: 2015_2002
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Use of the rating based approach’s IRBA securitizations scaling factor 1.06 in the cases of 1.250 % risk weight securitizations’ capital deduction

Shall the rating based approach’s IRBA securitizations scaling factor 1.06 also be applied in the cases of 1.250 % risk weight securitizations’ capital deduction?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_2024
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Own funds for foreign branches

Consider, for example, a branch in the EU or EEA that belongs to an institution that is located outside the EU and EEA. According to the general requirements of Article 47 (1) CRD IV that were transposed by the relevant member state, the branch may have to meet separate CRR own funds requirements. To this end, the institution allocates own funds to the branch. Does the branch have to include its own funds in the overall net foreign-exchange position according to Article 352 (4) CRR, if they are denominated in a currency other than the local currency of the member state where the branch is located?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_2130
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Ready access to bonds giving natural hedging to the banking book

Can HQLA assets whose sale would result in a breach of internal limits for IRRBB be considered as free and readily accessible under Article 8 of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/61 - DR with regard to liquidity coverage requirement
  • ID: 2019_4596
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Provisions as part of the own funds

Can provisions that are made against loss events in the past (i.e. previous accounting periods) be used as a capital substitute to cover future losses? Are these provisions available with a high degree of certainty?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4583
  • Topic: Operational risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Countercyclical capital buffer (CCB) relevant exposures

Should sovereign and institutions exposures in default (under Article 112.j of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013) and exposures to institutions with a short-term credit assessment (under Article 112.n of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013) be excluded from the relevant exposures required for CCB purposes?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_2117
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Market Risk Swap as credit derivative (i.e. Total Return Swap) applied for reducing market risk capital requirements

Can the financial contract described below (“Market Risk Swap”, MRS) be regarded a credit derivative (i.e. Total Return Swap, TRS) and be applied for reducing market risk capital requirements?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4572
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Speculative immovable property financing definition with respect to debt-for-asset swaps

In the case described below, in individual level of reporting, should exposures to the SPVs be treated as "Speculative Immovable Property Financing" and be risk weighted at 150% under Article 128 of the CRR, or should they be RW at 100% which reflects the RW of the property included in the Consolidated level of reporting (intercompany balances are eliminated and the asset remaining in the consolidated balance sheet is the property held for sale)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4559
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Treatment of exposure for unsettled repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements

For leverage ratio calculation purposes, it is asked to clarify the exposures to be recognized for both repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements, with specific reference to unsettled transactions.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/62 - DR with regard to the leverage ratio
  • ID: 2019_4499
  • Topic: Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Use of the last available data for risk quantification sample and out-of-time validation sample

Given the requirements of articles 175(4)(b) and 179(1)(a) , in case of a model development, should the last available one-year snapshot be used for risk quantification purposes (i.e. for the computation of the Long-run average default rate) or be set aside for validation tests?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4495
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Definition of exposure in non-significant business units and relating “significance” test

A) Can you please clarify how exposures in non-significant business units in Art. 150(1) (c) should be intended? B) Can you please clarify which are the criteria for such a “significant” test.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4490
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Barrier options

Should barrier options also be seen as call and put options to which the standard supervisory delta formula as expressed in article 279c(1a) should be applied ?

  • 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: 2019_5064
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Original maturity of credit lines until-further notice

For risk classification as off-balance sheet item according to Annex I CRR, is the original maturity longer than one year where non-retail credit lines until further notice (i.e. no fixed maturity) may be cancelled with 3 months advance notification period and even immediately in case the borrower becoming delinquent or declaring bankruptcy?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4486
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022

Applicable methodology for unfunded reserves and liquidity reserves

How should the risk-weight of reserves for which the computation of D and A is not required be determined?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2019_4466
  • Topic: Securitisation and Covered Bonds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as Rejected Q&A: 11/02/2022