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Clarification on the authority responsible for the DGS

Which exactly is the authority responsible for the DGS referred to in Article 88?

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

Other groups or colleges in Articles 88(6) and 89(4)

Could you please explain what “other groups or colleges” can carry out the work assigned to the resolution colleges with regard to Articles 88(6) and 89(4)?

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

Intervention of the resolution fund to cover for losses due to creditors / liabilities excluded from bail-in

Can Article 101(2) of Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) be interpreted in the way that even if all bail-inable creditors have been subjected to bail-in and losses are still not covered, a bridge bank would not be allowed to take on the remaining losses and thus resolution would not be possible?

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

Valuation in Article 36

How should the resolution authority perform the valuation mentioned in Article 36 of Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) before making the decision initiating resolution if it is not entitled to require certain information from the particular entity?

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

Treatment of cash provided as a collateral under issued guarantees and letters of credit

Should cash provided as a collateral under issued guarantees and letters of credit be included for the calculation of the total expected cash outflows under the LCR according to CRR Articles 421(1)a, 421(5)(a) or 422(2)(a)? If included, then should this collateral be treated as retail term deposits (term is being considered as the expiry of the issued L/C)? What outflow rate should be applied for such deposits?

  • 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

Reference to value in Article 48(2)

Does the reference to “value” in Article 48(2) refer to the “face value” (“notional amount”) or to the “market value”?

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

Calculation of general risk capital requirement for underwriting commitment regarding bond issuance and bond issuance programs under duration-based method specified in Article 340 of the CRR.

How should the capital requirement under duration-based calculation of general risk specified in Article 340 CRR be calculated where an institution is acting as an underwriter in bond issuance or bond issuance program? In particular, how to calculate the capital requirement before fixing of the coupon rate for bonds being issued and after that date?

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

Write down or convert bail-inable liabilities following Article 48(3)

How would the resolution authority write down or convert bail-inable liabilities referred to in point (e) of Article 48(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) without previously reducing or converting the other instruments, regardless of the terms mentioned in points (a) and (b) of Article 48(3)?How should "substantially" in Article 48(5) be interpreted exactly?

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

Recognition of non cash variation margin in the calculation for replacement cost of derivatives for Leverage Ratio

In the leverage ratio exposure calculation of non-client cleared derivatives can non cash variation margin be deducted?  

  • 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

The treatment of Physical Stock balances

The ITS states firms should report the name of the top ten issuers/counterparties of unencumbered assets or undrawn committed liquidity lines granted to the institution shall be recorded in column 010 in a descending fashion.-       If a firm holds gold or other commodity stocks, does column 010 (counterparty name) need to be populated?-       Should all physical stock balances be reported on one line? 

  • 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)

Definition of 'carrying amount' for the purposes of templates C 67.00, C 68.00 and C 69.00

In the guidance annexes for DPM 2.7 for ALMM returns C 67.00, C 68.00 and C 69.00 (Annex XIX) the requirement for ‘volume’ and ‘amount of funding’ has been further specified to ‘carrying amount’ for these templates only. Annex XIX does not define ‘carrying amount’ for liabilities – with reference to the ALMM templates mentioned, should it include accrued interest?

  • 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)

Coins and banknotes in counterbalancing capacity ALMM

How should we report 'Coins and banknotes' in counterbalancing capacity sheet (C 71.00) of ALMM report?

  • 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)

C 69.00, Prices for various lengths of funding - Spreads calculated in different currencies

The EBA Q&A 2015_2204 confirms that funding spreads must be calculated for all the funding products irrespective of the related currency of issuance.However, the methodology that needs to be applied in order to convert funding spreads calculated in foreign currencies to the reporting currency is not clear.This concept is relevant for funding having an original maturity of both longer and shorter than 1 year.

  • 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)

C 67.00, Concentration of funding by counterparties- third party mandates

Banks are receiving funds from third party institutions under asset management agreements. The agent banks therefore may include these funds under their on balance sheet liabilities. Accordingly, shall third party funds be considered for the calculation of this metric if they are included in the agent’s balance sheet? Moreover, may these funds be considered as funding and reported per single counterparty?

  • 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)

C 67.00 Concentration of funding by counterparties- Cash collateral received for derivatives

In the context of CSA collateral agreements, banks can receive collateral in the form of cash or securities in order to mitigate the counterparty credit risk coming from derivative transactions. In the case that cash collateral is received, this amount should be reported in bank’s liabilities even if the associated derivative is reported as off balance sheet. In the aforementioned case, shall cash collateral be considered as a source of 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)

Difference between 'product type' and 'product category' and clarification on product type reporting (Annex XIX, part 1.3, template C 68.00)

Template C 68.00 seeks to collect information about the reporting institutions' concentration of funding by product type, broken down into the listed funding types. After giving a broken-down list of funding types, the ITS in point 1.3.2 establishes that ‘for the purpose of completing this template, institutions shall report the total amount of funding received from each product category, which exceeds a threshold of 1 % of total liabilities’.Later, in point 1.3.4 the ITS states that ‘for the purpose of determining those product types from which funding obtained is greater than 1% of total liabilities threshold, the currency is irrelevant’.The doubt arises because in point 1.3.2, the ITS talks about ‘product category whereas in point 1.3.4 and also in the rest of the template, the ITS uses ‘product types’. Although the spirit of the regulation may suggest that both refer to the same concept, it is not clear that ‘product category’ and ‘product type’ can be considered interchangeable and have the same meaning.In either case, some clarification is needed.1)     Therefore, what does the ITS mean by ‘product category’? Would it be the same meaning as ‘product type’? In either case, a complete description of what is understood as ‘product type’ or ‘product category’ would be helpful.2)     In this line, and assuming that product type and product category are the same, then, each row of template C 68.00 would be considered a different product type / product category?If so, are they exclusionary?If they are, what are the concepts that have priority?For instance, if we have an unsecured wholesale funding that is both i) of which financial customers and ii) of which from intra-group entities, under which type should it be reported?

  • 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)

Template C 69.00 - Prices for the Various Lenghts of Funding - follow-up to Q&As 2015_1901 and 2015_2204

We note response given to question 2015_1901. Can we clarify if the treatment advised for retail current accounts also applies to cash operating accounts used by corporate entities?We note response given to question 2015_2204, could we request a definition of ‘new transactions entered into during the period’ in the case of cash accounts for the purpose of calculating the total volume reported. Is that treatment consistent to both retail and corporate cash accounts?

  • 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 individuals/households names in template C 67.00

Should the individuals/households names to be disclosed when filling template C 67.00?

  • 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)

Counterparty details for central bank eligible assets in Concentration of Counterbalancing Capacity template C 71.00

In the event that an institution pre-positions retail customer credit claims into a standard central bank emergency liquidity operation, which counterparty should be reported as the counterparty to the assets in template C 71.00?

  • 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)