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FINREP F01.03, F02 and F46 checks (V1226_m and V0786_m)

The non-xbrl check V1226_m is in contradiction with v0786_m

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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_4612
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Validationrule v5713_s DPM2.8 FINREP F 46.00

Our question relates to EBA validationrule v5713_s which, in our view, is not always applicable. This validation rule applies to the situation where a dividend distribution is done from "Capital"; the first column. In this situation the amount of dividend should be negative in c_010, r_110 of template F46.00. However, there can also be the situation that a stock dividend is converted from Share premium to Capital. In this situation there is a negative amount reported in the second column "Share premium" and there is an equal positive amount in the column "Capital" disclosed. The total change in equity is nil, but there is a shift from Share premium to Capital. In this situation should it be possible to report a positive amount in the column "Capital". Is our understanding correct ?

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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_4591
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Reporting of contributions to the default fund of a CCP

There seems to be an incoherence between Q&A 2013_209 and the instructions contained in Annex 2 of EBA Implementing Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 regarding the Reporting of contributions to the default fund of a CCP.

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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_4563
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

[eba_v1042_m] f16.01

Why the total of the table F16.01.b doesn't follow the rule [eba_v1042_m]? Is this related to negative interest rates?

  • 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_4434
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Closely correlated currencies

How to manage the closely correlated currencies according to Article 354(1) CRR under the standardised approach?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4142
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

ABCP Programme

Does an ABCP programme meet the definition under Article 242(9) of Regulation 575/2013 – or Article 242(11) CRR as amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/2401, which refers to-Article 2(7) in Regulation 2017/2402   when it invests not only in securitisation transactions (i.e. ABCP transaction as defined in Article 2(8) in Regulation 2017/2402) but also in other type of assets?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4324
  • Topic: Securitisation and Covered Bonds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Validation rule on C_05.01 template - V0193_M

Should V0193_M validation rule be deactivated or changed?

  • 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_4256
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Consistency of COREP validations rules e4896_n & e4895_n

Are the COREP EBA validation rules e4896_n & e4895_n consistent with 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_3561
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2020

Clarification on what is considered insured deposits

When determining the covered deposits, should netting with customer loans be applied before determining the amount of deposits which are not covered by the DGS?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/49/EU (DGSD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_2324
  • Topic: Rights of depositors (Eligibility, coverage level, repayable amount, repayment, claim against DGS, depositor information)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Risk weights for the core indicator set

EBA/GL/2015/10 Article 58, bullet point 2 suggests that there is no flexibility of the risk weights when the core risk indicator set are applied (with no additional indicators or any indicators left out). Would it be in compliance with the guidelines to use the core indicator set but to distribute the 25 % flexible weights somewhat different than what article 58, bullet point 2 suggests?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/49/EU (DGSD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2015/10 - Guidelines on methods for calculating contributions to deposit guarantee schemes
  • ID: 2017_3096
  • Topic: Funding provisions (financing means, use of funds, borrowing, calculation of contributions)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Definition of payee for dynamic linking

Article 5 of the RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication requires the authentication code to be specific to the amount of the payment transaction and the payee.Does it suffice to include a meaningful part of the identifier into the calculation of the authentication code? For instance, would it suffice to include only numeric characters of the IBAN in the calculation of the authentication code?

  • 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: 2019_4556
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Dynamic Linking for batch payments

With regards to dynamic linking for a batch of remote electronic payments, should the authentication code be linked to each and every IBAN of all the beneficiaries in a batch file?

  • 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_4435
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Dynamic linking for batch transactions

In relation to payment transactions for a batch of remote electronic payments to one or several payees, please clarify whether the payer needs to be made aware of every payee in the batch?

  • 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_4415
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Data authentication standards

Does a non-remote card payment transaction with a secure, dynamic data authentication of the card (DDA or higher), based on ISO/IEC 7816 (for contact cards) and ISO/IEC 14443 (for contactless card) used with a static PIN meet the requirements of Article 4 of the RTS on Strong Customer Authentication (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_4110
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Scope of ‘initiation of an electronic payment transaction’

Does a card payment transaction, authenticated with a signature at the point of sale, fall under the scope of Article 97 (I) (b) PSD2? Is there a difference if the signature is provided on a paper or on a signature pad (e.g. electronic signature pad or signature capture at a payment terminal)?

  • 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_4108
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

Confidentiality of the application cryptogram for EMV transactions

Are EMV (Europay, MasterCard, Visa)  transactions (for which the application cryptogram is not enciphered during its transmission) compliant with the RTS on strong customer authentication?

  • 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_4054
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/12/2019

FINREP Template F 40.01

Annex V Part II paragraph 296 (f) of Commission Implementing Regulatio (EU) No 680/2014 states of  “”Equity of Investee”, “Total assets of the Investee” and “Profit or (loss) of the Investee” include the amounts of these items in the last financial statements of the investee.” Does this refer to the latest set of financial statements of the investee which have been approved by the investee’s board of directors, or similarly authorised committee?

  • 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_2141
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/12/2019

Large Exposures Reporting

We are seeking clarification on how exposures to Central counterparties are to be classified for large exposures reporting. We are unclear whether these counterparties are to be reported as unregulated financial entities and reported in LE4 or other and therefore only reported in LE1 and LE2. We have exposure to the London Clearing House which is a recognised clearing house, supervised by the Bank of England.

  • 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_2086
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/12/2019

Template C 08.02 - Col 080 has Missing 'CRM Effects/Collateral' dimension

In template C 08.02, col 080 is defined without the dimension 'CRM Effects/Collateral [CRM]'. This looks logically incorrect and would also result in failure of validation rule: v0347_m {c090} = {c020} + {c070} + {c080}

  • 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_1464
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/12/2019