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Scope of C40 LR1 Row 090

Is the scope of LR1, row 090 (‘Other assets’) limited to off-balance sheet assets; or should the scope given for row 090 in Annex XI take precedence over the restrictions in Paragraph 21 of Annex XI?And if the latter, please confirm if each of the following assets must be included in LR1 Row 090:i) Trading book positions;ii) Unsettled trades.iii) Default fund contributions.

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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: 2016_2659
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Other Asset

Should all the accounting based off-settings (here including for example tax assets/ liabilities off-setting) be grossed-up on Other Asset of LR exposure?

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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: 2015_1856
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Definition of financial corporates for Leverage Ratio and FinRepITS

Is the definition of financial corporates really different in the Leverage Ratio and FinRep 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
  • ID: 2014_1618
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Original Exposure value of Securities Financing Transactions calculated under Article 220 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)

There appear to be differing interpretations within the industry on how to disclose the Original Exposure value in column 040 of template C 28.00. Some firms are reporting the fully adjusted exposure value as calculated under Article 220 of the CRR (E*). Other firms are including the gross asset value in Column 040 and making an adjustment for the associated collateral in column 300, thereby splitting the SFT transaction into its constituent parts. Can the EBA advise which is the correct treatment?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 1423/2013 - ITS on disclosure of own funds requirements
  • ID: 2017_3590
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

How to fill out the COREP C 28.00 for an exposure secured by an insurance wrapper?

Article 390(7) CRR and RTS 1187/2014 specify how to determine the overall exposure to a client or a group of connected clients in respect of transactions with underlying assets. According to Article 200 CRR, insurance policies pledged to the lending institutions are eligible as Other Funded Credit Protection. As per Article 232 CRR, for banks under the Standardised Approach, the risk-weight of the original debtor is substituted with a different risk-weight ranging from 20% to 150%. Under the Standardised Approach, where an exposure is secured by a pledged insurance policy in the form of an insurance wrapper (life insurance policy ‘wrapped’ around the policy owner’s investment portfolio), how should the exposure and the collateral be reported in COREP C 28.00? Is there a difference between the Financial Collateral Simple Method and the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method?

  • 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: 2017_3307
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Treatment of cash at bank under the large exposures regime

According to EBA Question ID 2013_412, "cash" positions do not fall under the scope of the large exposures regime and do not need to be reported.1)      Could you please confirm whether cash at bank deposited by an investment firm fall under the large exposures regime?2)      Could you please also provide us with the relevant reference in the CRR which states that cash positions are excluded from the large exposures regime?3)      When you are referring to "cash" positions do you include both cash held at hand and at bank?If indeed cash deposits are considered in the calculation of large exposures, where these should be reported in the C 28.00 and C 29.00 templates?

  • 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: 2014_1598
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Definition of Special Purpose Vehicle (SPV) as Financial Institution

Are Special Purpose Vehicles (SPV) which are used for of Asset Backed Securities (ABS) transactions "Financial Institutions" according to Art. 4 (27) CRR?If so, shall the Special Purpose Vehicles Reported as the 10 largest exposures on a consolidated basis to unregulated financial entities according to Art. 394 (2) CRR?

  • 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: 2014_1530
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Large Exposures Reporting of Volatility Haircut applied to Exposure Value

The instructions for template C 28.00, column 300 and C 29.00, column 310 i.e. “(-) Funded credit protection other than substitution effect”, are currently unclear how volatility haircuts that are applied to the exposure value under CRM are reported.Some vendors have suggested that the CRM volatility haircut applied to the exposure value should be included as a positive value (+), while the volatility haircut applied to the collateral should be included as a negative value (-) within template C 28.00, column 300 and template C 29.00, column 310.This is the only way to satisfy the following validation rules:v0653_m{c330} = {c210} + {c240} + {c250} + {c260} + {c270} + {c280} + {c290} + {c300} + {c310} + {c320}v1683_m{c340} = {c220} + {c250} + {c260} + {c270} + {c280} + {c290} + {c300} + {c310} + {c320} + {c330}The current text used for “(-) Funded credit protection other than substitution effect”, in templates C 28.00 and C 29.00 simply states that "the institution shall report the amounts of funded credit protection, as defined in Article 4(58) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, that are deducted from the exposure value due to the application of Article 401 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013". There is no reference to the volatility haircut applied to the exposure value under CRM. Therefore, can we suggest that the instructions to template C 28.00, column 300 and template C 29.00, column 310 are amended to provide clarification on how the volatility haircut applied to the exposure value under CRM is incorporated into the large exposures templates C 28.00 and C 29.00

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1327
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Other
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 04/10/2019

Clarification on whether a particular business model type constitutes the provision of an account information service as defined by Article 4 (16) of PSD2

Does a business model where the provider offers a service sending the account information to third parties (different from the payment service user)  (detail provided in the background) constitute the provision of an account information service, particularly as it is not proposed that the account information obtained will be given directly to the Payment Service User?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4098
  • Topic: Authorisation and registration
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/09/2019

Validation rule e4898_n

Is the validation rule e4898_n of ITS consistent with the Article 134(7) of the CRR?

  • 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: 2017_3548
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/09/2019

Originator obligations

What are the obligations of an originator who purchases third party's exposures and subsequently securitises them, in order to meet the requirements set out in Article 9 of the Securitisation Regulation?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 2017/2402 (SecReg)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4368
  • Topic: Provisions applicable to all securitisations
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/09/2019

Reporting of template C71.00 by significant currency

How is template C71.00 (concentration of counterbalancing capacity by counterparty) to be completed in the context of the reporting by significant currency (as referred to in Article 415(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR))? Specifically, are exposures in a significant currency going to rise in the ranking when being reported by significant currency (given that items denominated in a different currency will be disregarded in the separate currency reporting)?

  • 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: 2019_4550
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Classification of multilateral development banks (MDBs) for the purpose of the reporting of the Additional Liquidity Monitoring Metrics (ALMM)

For the purpose of the reporting of the ALMM, are MDBs to be considered as financial counterparties, non-financial corporate counterparties or other counterparties?

  • 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: 2019_4549
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Counterparty classification of the ESM and the ESFS

How are ESM and ESFS to be classified for FINREP – as government or as non-financial corporations?

  • 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: 2018_4282
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

C 66.00, validation rule v5903_s

In an environment of negative (money market indexing) interest rates this rule may not be applicable.

  • 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: 2018_4193
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Conditions for the filling of template C 33.00

If a bank will move to IFRS9 accounting standards starting from 1 July 2018, the first date for the Corep reporting under IFRS9 will be 30 September 2018. Therefore, at 30 June 2018 the new logic of the IFRS9 accounting portfolios is not available in data systems and it would be difficult to complete the new model C 33.00. We would like to know if the bank still need to fill in the template C 33.00 at 30 June 2018 and, if so, what logic it has to use.

  • 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: 2018_4072
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Double counting of intra-group funding in C68.00

"In C68.00 Unsecured wholesale funding (row 110) should be split per product type: - of which loans and deposits from financial customers (row 120) - of which loans and deposits from non-financial customers (row 130) - of which loans and deposits from intra-group entities (row 140) Should intragroup funding be reported exclusively in row 140? Or should it be reported in row 140 AND in row 120/130 depending if the intragroup entity is a financial or a non-financial customer? The same question applies to the split of wholesale funding."

  • 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: 2018_3962
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Incorrect validation rule v4456_m

The validation rule v4456_m is not correctly defined in the taxonomy 2.7. Prerequisites are following: C 47.00 and C 43.00.a and C 43.00.b and C 43.00.c It means that all tables have to be reported. However a bank with a standardised approach to credit risk do not report table C 43.00.c. Consequently the rule can not be applied. In theory a bank can have no data for the table C 43.00.a as well.

  • 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: 2018_3950
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

Is the scope of the RTS on strong customer authentication (SCA) and secure communication one-leg or two-leg?

Does the PSD2 requirement on SCA, and subsequently the detailed requirements in the RTS on SCA including the practical usage of the allowed exemptions, apply also to one-leg transactions, with regards to:Transactions with the payer’s payment service providers (PSP) outside the EEA (credit transfers as well as card-based payments)?Credit transfers with the payer’s PSP inside the EEA and the payee’s PSP outside the EEA?Card-based payments with the payer’s PSP (the issuer) inside the EEA and the payee’s PSP (the acquirer) outside the EEA, when the non-EEA acquirer do support SCA?Card-based payments with the payer’s PSP (the issuer) inside the EEA and the payee’s PSP (the acquirer) outside the EEA, when the non-EEA acquirer does not support SCA?

  • 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: 2018_4233
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019

The Implementation of the electronic communications exclusion in the voiced-based premium rate services market

Considering the organisation of the voiced-based premium rate services market, and considering the interpretations proposed for the electronic communications exclusion (ECE) in the different countries, as far as a payment transaction complies with the conditions imposed by the ECE, does the ECE apply to the whole value chain, and therefore, all the providers of electronic communications networks or services involved in payment transactions covered by the ECE should not have to register as payment institutions or agents for these operations?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4181
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 06/09/2019