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v09821_m, v09823_m - Hedging sets

In template C 34.03, the columns current market value (CMV), positive (c0050) and Current market value (CMV), negative (c0060) are to be presented on hedging set level and shall be determined by netting positive and negative market values of the transactions within one hedging set gross of any collateral held or posted.  In order to comply with requirements, the CMVs are to be presented on hedging set level. While this is possible for calculating each risk category (e.g. Equity risk (r0230, c0050, c0060), there is a potential issue with split of the given risk category into single- and multi-name transactions (e.g. for Equity risk: r0250, r0260, c0050, c0060). The hedging sets can contain both single and multi-name transactions. How to approach a possible situation where in an extreme case e.g. CMV on the hedging set can be positive, but all single name transaction-level MV are negative, therefore the positive CMV would actually be negative? Is it possible to calculate CMV splitting the hedging sets into single and multi-name hedging sub-sets, then determining the CMV on those hedging sub-sets? In this case, the netting of positive and negative market values will happen only within the hedging sub-sets.

  • 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: 2022_6363
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

FINREP - Treatment of cash collateral

In an earlier issued answer (Q&A 2020_5279), it was advised that cash collaterals on derivatives should be reported as part of 'Financial assets at amortised cost' [F 01.01, r183, c010].  Should cash collaterals on other products, for instance reverse repurchase agreements and repurchase agreements (repos & reverse repos) be treated similarly?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6371
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Collateral received for derivatives in F 32.04 and F 32.02 with master netting agreements in place

Can the collateral received for derivatives be reported in AE templates F 32.04 (AE-SOU) and F 32.02 (AE-COL) at master netting agreement level (counterparty level), when collateral is only exchanged at that level? 

  • 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: 2021_6282
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Indication of use of derogation of Article 2(5)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 1152/2014

It is not clear from the instructions which value should be reported to indicate in a harmonised way whether an institution makes use of the derogation stated in Article 2(5), point (b) of Regulation (EU) 1152/2014.

  • 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: 2022_6373
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Interest income from other assets in F 02.00 and F 16.01

Should ‘Interest income - other assets' be the same in templates F 02.00 and F 16.01 (correctness of validation rule v5598_i and Q&A 4009)?

  • 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: 2022_6388
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

C 33.00: Instructions concerning specific positions - c0020

Should column 0020 in C 33.00 be filled in as the sum of the columns 0030 to 0120 minus column 0130? Or should the net amount only be reported when the following condition is met: there’s a short position with the same immediate counterparty and residual maturity? If the current definition of column 0020 is considered correct, should validations v10651_m and v5853_h be changed?

  • 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: 2022_6407
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Authentication procedures that ASPSPs’ interfaces are required to support (using re-direction)

In a pure redirection-based approach, can an ASPSP, which is not offering a mobile web browser to its PSU’s, decide not to support  an authentication via a mobile web browser authentication page (no app-to-mobile web browser or mobile web browser-to-mobile web browser  redirection) for PISPs/AISPs on the basis of duly justified security risks, without being considered a breach of Article 97 (5) PSD2 and Article 30(2) of the RTS on SCA and CSC and/or an obstacle under Article 32(3) of the RTS on SCA and CSC?  

  • 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: 2021_6321
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Application of SCA for confirmation of funds requests made by a PISP

1) Should two SCAs be applied when a fund confirmation is made by a PISP? i.e. one for fund confirmation and one for payment initiation? 2) Should ASPSPs provide confirmation to a CoF request made by a PISP before or after the payment is submitted?

  • 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: 2021_6280
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Arbitrating between security and obstacles

Can an Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (ASPSP) know a mobile phone number inside of the Third Party Provider (TPP)’s organisation in order to send a decryption password to the TPP out-of-band via SMS?   

  • 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: 2021_6156
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Ability of Payee’s PSP to apply exemptions from SCA in credit transfers

Can the Payee’s Payment Services Provider (PSP) apply an exemption from strong customer authentication (SCA) in credit transfers that are initiated through the payee?

  • 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: 2021_5845
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/01/2023

Encumbrance duration of reverse repo in NSFR when the received collateral has been sold short

When the received collateral through a reverse repo has been sold outright, what should the encumbrance duration for the reverse repo be?

  • 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: 2022_6345
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/01/2023

Collateral swaps with underlying collateral baskets

How to create combinations for collateral swaps with underlying collateral baskets for a special case where no asset left for one leg? Please see more details with the example. 

  • 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: 2022_6331
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/01/2023

Establishment of a resolution college

Is a resolution college to be established pursuant to Article 88 for a group consisting of a bank which is a resolution entity in a member state, the bank’s significant branches in other Member States, the bank’s subsidiaries (credit institutions) in the Member State where the bank is domiciled and the bank’s subsidiaries (credit institutions) in third countries?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6594
  • Topic: Cross-border resolution
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/01/2023

Transactions initiated via electronic mail (email)

Do transactions initiated via electronic mail (email) qualify as initiations pursuant to Article 97 para. 1 (b) PSD2 and are therefore subject to the RTS SCA requirements?

  • 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: 2021_6315
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

Articulation and interaction of the second and the third sub-paragraph of Article 74 (1) of the PSD2

In cases where the payer could not possibly detect the loss, theft or misappropriation of his instrument before it was used, is it correct to state that there can be no liability at all, including if the payer has acted with gross negligence?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_6305
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

Calculation of “payment volume” for method B in the Article 9 of Directive EU 2015/36 (PSD2)

Can you please clarify the definition of 'previous year' when computing the “total amount of payment transactions executed” referred to in the calculation of “payment volume” for method B in the Article 9 of Directive EU 2015/36 (PSD2) as to whether it should be the previous 12 months from the date of calculation, therefore a rolling calculation, or whether it refers to the 'previous accounting year'? 

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_6241
  • Topic: Authorisation and registration
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

On the access to safeguarding accounts through the Application Programming Interface (API)

Shall a safeguarding account of the e-money institution (EMI) or/and of the payment institution (EMI and PI) within the account servicing payment service provider (ASPSP) be considered as a payment account and therefore should be accessible (displayed) through the Application Programming Interface (API) of ASPSP?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5755
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

Bill-payment via postal service

Does bill-payment via snail-mail (postal service) fall into the definition of Article 97 1(c) and thus are subject to strong customer authentication (SCA) requirements?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5534
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

Clarification of meanings 'transferring of funds' and 'another payment service provider’ in the context of article 10(1)(a) of PSD2

1) How to understand the meaning 'another payment service provider', specified in Article 10(1)(a) of PSD2? What is the definition of this meaning in the context of Article 10(1)(a) of PSD2? 2) How to understand the meaning ‘transferred to another payment service provider’, specified in Article 10(1)(a) of PSD2? In particular, is it possible to consider as 'transferred to another payment service provider' transferring of funds (which have been received by Payment service provider No. 1 from the payment service users or through another payment service provider for the execution of payment transactions) on payment account of the payment service provider No. 1, that is opened with Payment service provider No. 2? On what legal basis the transfer of funds must take place in order to be considered 'transferred to another payment service provider'?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5502
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023

“Triangular ” passport

Are “triangular” passports possible under the current legal framework governing the passporting rights among the EU Member States?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2017/2055 - RTS on passporting under PSD2
  • ID: 2021_5726
  • Topic: Passporting
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/01/2023