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Treatment of "E-money" in Liquidity Reporting

We seek clarification on how the issue of “e-money” is to be treated in the computation of liquidity requirements and reporting; “LCR, stable funding reporting and ALMM”.From a liquidity related context, would the issued “e-money” be accounted for/treated according to “Article 421(1)” of CRR under retail deposits? And therefore, be included in the computation of demand deposits, where the outflow is stressed with 5% according to “Article 421(1) (a)? Or stressed with 10% following “Article 421(2), in relation to whether a customer has an established relationship with the bank and is covered by the “Deposit Guarantee Scheme”?Alternatively, would the issued “e-money”, from a liquidity related perspective be accounted for under “Other Liabilities” according to “Article 422 of CRR? Hence, entail the computation of “Other Liabilities” as per “Article 422(5), where outflows are stressed with 40% and 20% respectively? Depending on whether the commitment/liability is covered by the “Deposit Guarantee Scheme”?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2013/01 - Guidelines on retail deposits subject to different outflows for purposes of liquidity reporting

Incentives to redeem of a hybrid instrument with a call for grandfathering purposes

Article 489 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) provides for the grandfathering treatment of hybrid instruments with a call and an incentive to redeem. A bank has issued a bond with a fixed coupon before the first call date and a floating rate coupon after the first call date. The credit spread of the fixed coupon as of the issuance date is the same as the margin of the floating rate coupon after the first call date, so there is no immediate step-up there. However, the floating rate coupon is floored at the level of the fixed rate coupon. Does this constitute an incentive to redeem ?

  • 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

Obligation to carry out analysis and to consult with EBA on planned increase of risk weights before RTS on this matter are finally adopted and published in the Official Journal of the European Union

Is there an obligation to carry out appropriate analysis and to consult with EBA on planned increase of risk weights since RTS on this matter are not finally adopted and published in the Official Journal of the European Union?

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

Distribution by an originator to its shareholders of a participation instrument the pay out of which is directly linked to the net cash flows under the net economic interest retained

Would a credit institution acting as originator in relation to a securitisation and holding the net economic interest pursuant to Article 6 Regulation 2017/2402 be in breach of Article 12 of Regulation (EU) 625/2014 if such credit institution decides to issue to its shareholders, free of charge, a participation instrument the pay out of which is directly linked to the net cash flows under the net economic interest retained by the originator?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 625/2014 - RTS on requirements for investor, sponsor, original lenders and originator institutions of transferred credit risk exposures

Scope of asset value correlation adjustment for regulated entities

Should Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities (UCITS) be treated as “subject to prudential regulation in the Union,” such that credit exposures to UCITS are only subject to the Asset Value Correlation (AVC) adjustment where the total assets of the counterparty on an individual or consolidated basis exceed EUR 70 billion? Should third country funds which are regulated on a comparable basis to UCITS (for example, US Investment Act 1940 funds, Employee Retirement and Income Security Act funds) receive the same treatment ?

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

Leverage ratio - Add-on calculation for SFT transactions in Financial collateral simple method

In the example below, under Financial Collateral Simple Method would the add-on be the same as under Article 429e(2) of the CRR, that is 25, or should it be based on (1025 * 0.20) = 205 – 200 (1000 * 0.20), that is 5?

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

Interpretation of Article 88(1) and 89(1) BRRD with respect to the scope of resolution colleges for third country institutions or third country parent undertakings

Is an Article 88 resolution college required for a subsidiary of a third country parent undertaking where that subsidiary itself has subsidiaries in other Member States? If so, is an Article 89 European resolution college also required? In particular, where there is an unrelated sister subsidiary of the third country parent undertaking in another Member State, will both an Article 89 BRRD European resolution college (covering the entire presence of the third country parent undertaking in the Union) and an Article 88 BRRD resolution college (covering any subsidiary which itself has subsidiaries in other Member States) need to be established?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Can third country insurance companies be considered as unregulated financial entities

If a third country insurance or re-insurance is considered as not subject to "prudential supervisory and regulation requirements at least equivalent to those applied in the union" (as stated in article 142 (4) ) should we definitely consider this entity as neither "large financial sector entity" neither "unregulated financial sector entity" as defined under article 142 (4) and (5) ? Indeed the definition of "unregulated financial sector entity" ("an entity that is not a regulated financial sector entity but that performs, as its main business, one or more of the activities listed in annex I to directive 2013/36/EU or in annex I to directive 2004/36/EC") does not cover insurance activities.

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

Third country equivalent large financial sector entities

If the Implementing Act of the EU has stated equivalent third countries for investment firms, exchange and credit institution there is no such a list for insurance and re-insurance companies.Nevertheless, if we understand that CRR contains no list of equivalent countries for insurance and re-insurance companies, or no recommendations on EBA to produce such a list, institutions need clear guidelines if they want to correctly apply article 142 (4) of CRR.

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

Credit Risk – treatment of Russian credit institutions

1. Please advise whether Russian Credit Institutions are to be treated as an "Institution" or ‘Corporate client’, considering Article 107, paragraph 3 definition:"For the purposes of this Regulation, exposures to third- country investment firms and exposures to third country credit institutions and exposures to third country clearing houses and exchanges shall be treated as exposures to an institution only if the third country applies prudential and supervisory requirements to that entity that are at least equivalent to those applied in the Union."2. Does definition of an "Institution" in Article 107(3) definition only refer to the capital requirement for credit risk?

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

Equivalence of third country supervisory and regulatory arrangements to those applied in the Union

Who decides which third countries apply supervisory and regulatory arrangements at least equivalent to those applied in the Union? Unlike other articles in CRR (such as e.g. Article 114(7)), Article 212 does not explicitly empower the Commission to adopt, by way of implementing acts, and subject to the examination procedure referred to in Article 464.2, a decision as to whether a third country applies supervisory and regulatory arrangements at least equivalent to those applied in the Union.

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

Equivalence of third country supervisory and regulatory arrangements to those applied in the Union

Who decides (after the transitional period, if applicable) which third countries apply supervisory and regulatory arrangements at least equivalent to those applied in the Union in case the Commission does not make use of its power to adopt, by way of implementing acts, and subject to the examination procedure referred to in Article 464(2), a decision as to whether a third country applies supervisory and regulatory arrangements at least equivalent to those applied in the Union?The same question occurs with regard to Articles 107(4), 115(4), 116(5), 132(3) and 142(2) CRR.

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

C 09.04, row 010, column 010 – Exposure value under the standardised approach for relevant credit exposures

Is the data model for the C 09.04 correctly specified in the 2.5.0.1 taxonomy?

  • 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)

Obligors for total exposures in template CR IRB 1

Should r010, c300 of template C 08.01 be additive for number of obligors e.g. a retail Customer has 3 exposures in different obligor grades, 2 are On Balance sheet and 1 is Off Balance sheet. In template C 08.02 this would be disclosed as 3 obligors given that they are included within 3 different grades. In templates C 08.01 should this customer then be disclosed as 3 obligors in r010, c300 or 1 obligor?

  • 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)

Asset encumbrance templates - Some cells are mapped with the same data point of other ones, but not all of them can be reported on a consolidated basis

Should be reported on a consolidated basis the cells related to F 36.01 and F 36.02 templates mapped with the same data point of the ones related to F 32.01 and F 32.02 templates, which have the coordinates specified below? In general, should columns 50 and 70 of templates F 36.01 and F 36.02 be reported on a consolidated basis?

  • 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)

EBA validation rule (Leverage Ratio) v4456_m

We think that the validation rule v4456_m may not be correct because the first part is deducting row 260 of C 47.00 “(-) Exposures exempted in accordance with Article 429(14) of the CRR”. However, the exposures included in C 47.00 row 260 are reported in C 43.00 row 090 “Exposures treated as sovereigns” which is added in second part of the validation rule. v4456_msum({C_47.00, c010, r[010, 020, 030, 040, 050, 060, 070, 080, 090, 100-260]}) = sum({C_43.00.a, c010, r[010, 040, 050, 060, 065, 070]}) + sum({C_43.00.b, c010, r[080, 090, 140, 180, 190, 210, 230, 280, 290]}) + sum({C_43.00.c, c020, r[080, 090, 140, 180, 190, 210, 230, 280, 290]})Should it be changed this validation rule in the following sense?sum({C_47.00, c010, r[010, 020, 030, 040, 050, 060, 070, 080, 090, 100-260]}) ≤ sum({C_43.00.a, c010, r[010, 040, 050, 060, 065, 070]}) + sum({C_43.00.b, c010, r[080, 090, 140, 180, 190, 210, 230, 280, 290]}) + sum({C_43.00.c, c020, r[080, 090, 140, 180, 190, 210, 230, 280, 290]})

  • 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)

Concept of “secured liabilities”

It is unclear whether the concept of “secured liabilities” as mentioned in Article 44(2)(b) BRRD covers liabilities benefitting from a State guarantee (including thus the so-called “GGBBs”) or whether it is limited to liabilities secured by assets (collateral)?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Is there a mistake in the Validation formula V4448_m and in the corresponding statement in the ITS?

Is there a mistake in the Validation formula v4448_m and in the corresponding statement in the ITS?

  • 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)

Reporting of Treasury bills (henceforth T-bills) in template F 01.01

Where should T-bills be reported in template F 01.01 – Balance Sheet Statement?

  • 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)

Mutual agreement to waive the requirement to establish a European resolution college

How should the reference to “mutual agreement” with regard to waiving the requirement to establish a European resolution college stated in Article 89(4) of Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) be interpreted?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable