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Exposures to unrated institutions

How should exposures to unrated institutions be treated under Article 121 CRR in the cases where these institutions are located in a Member State or in a third country that does apply supervisory and regulatory arrangements at least equivalent to those applied in the Union and the exposures to the central government and central bank denominated and funded in domestic currency are assigned a risk weight according to Articles 114(4) to (7)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_3765
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/03/2019

Exposures to regional governments, local authorities or public sector entities which are treated as exposures to central governments under Articles 115 and 116 CRR

Please clarify how Article 115(2) CRR shall be applied in case regional governments and local authorities are treated under the SA by application of Article 150 CRR and central governments are treated under the IRB Approach. 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2017_3517
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/03/2019

Does SCA apply to electronically processed SEPA Direct Debits ?

When processing SEPA Direct Debits electronically (assuming that the Direct Debit mandate has been signed digitally), does SCA apply to transactions? If not, what is the legal basis for this exemption?

  • 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_4359
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019

New risk weights for exposures to central governments or central banks not applicable in DPM 2.7 for C 07.00

How should the new risk weights be applied when they are not currently available in the DPM 2.7?

  • 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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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_3947
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019

Treatment of off-balance sheet exposures measured at reporting date at fair value trough P&L in templates F 18.00 and F 19.00

How should we treat off-balance sheet exposures measured at reporting date at fair value trough P&L from the reporting templates F 18.00 and F 19.00 point of view? Shall we include them into templates or not?

  • 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_3912
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019

Reactivation of v0191_m as of v2.7.

Is the reactivation of v0191_m: {C 01.00, r370, c010} = {C 05.01, r170, c060} 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: 2018_3887
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/02/2019

IFRS 9 Transitional arrangements – Calculation of the total exposure measure of the leverage ratio

According to Article 473a(7)(b) of CRR, is it correct to adjust the specific credit risk adjustments by applying a scaling factor for the only exposures subject to the standardised credit risk approach for the purpose of the calculation of the total exposure measure of the transitional leverage ratio?

  • 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
  • ID: 2018_3995
  • Topic: Accounting and auditing
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 15/02/2019

On demand secured lending of Level 1 assets

Can Level 1 assets that are used for on demand secured lending transactions be considered as liquid assets for the Liquidity buffer?

  • 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
  • ID: 2018_3730
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

Contactless payments at point of sale - Applications of the conditions

What activity can be considered a proper application of strong customer authentication according to the Article 11 Paragraph b of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2018/389?

  • 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_4226
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

Reporting of assets sold short as a additional outflow for LCR under Delegated Act

For the purposes of reporting additional outflow for short positions in the LCR (row ID 1.1.45.6.2) on the C73 return, are firms required to report both unsettled and settled uncovered sold short positions?  

  • 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
  • ID: 2016_2585
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

Communication plans to inform payment service providers making use of the dedicated interface

Is it sufficient to publish the measures to restore the system and the further descriptions on the website in an area, which is secured by the certificates of the payment service providers?

  • 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_4071
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

Length of authentication codes

Is a 3 decimal-digit authentication code, which (1) is unique per each transaction and (2) complies with the other security requirements set out in Article 4 RTS, compliant with the RTS?

  • 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_4053
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

Showing a password after it has been masked

Article 22, 2(a) states that "personalised security credentials are masked when displayed and are not readable in their full extent when input by the payment service user during the authentication". Is it ok to offer the user a "show password"-button, so the user can verify that correct password has been entered, before fulfilling an 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_4366
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/02/2019

EBA ITS package for 2019 benchmarking exercise (Annex V, credit spread instruments)

Seniority is not specified in some CDS instruments. Could we consider them as Senior Unsecured?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2016/2070 - ITS on Supervisory Reporting (for benchmarking the internal approaches) (as amended)
  • ID: 2018_4252
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Supervisory Benchmarking
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/02/2019

Benchmarking - Market risk - instrument specification

In Annex 5, 2019 and subsequent ITS, section 2 Instruments, equity instrument #18, the autocallable product is specified with a 6% coupon, without any memory characteristics. Could you confirm that the product has no memory feature regarding past coupons?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions (for benchmarking the internal approaches)
  • ID: 2018_4247
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Supervisory Benchmarking
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/02/2019

Benchmarking - Market risk - Base currency unit

In Annex 5, 2019 and subsequent ITS, section 2 Instruments, the equity instrument # 6 concerns a single stock future that is quoted in pence. For the benchmarking exercise, can the reported value in pence be used?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions (for benchmarking the internal approaches)
  • ID: 2018_4244
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Supervisory Benchmarking
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 01/02/2019

Trusted Beneficiary exemption – Management of the exemption, information flows between PSPs in the payment transaction

For the seamless management of the Article 13 exemption, should ASPSPs provide a feature that: 1) informs Acquirers and PISPs whether the payee is included in the payer’s list of trusted beneficiary; and 2) allows Acquirers and PISPs to suggest new entries or amendments to a payer’s list of trusted beneficiaries?

  • 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_4128
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/01/2019

On the access to names and surnames through the API

Shall names and surnames associated with payment accounts be displayed through the Application Programming Interface (API)??

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4081
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 25/01/2019

Mapping of SEC-ERBA credit quality steps

What mappings will be applicable between the first date of application of Regulation (EU)  575/2013 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2017/2401 (i.e. 1 January 2019) and the entry into force of the ITS (implementing technical standards) on Articles 270a?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2018_4274
  • Topic: Securitisation and Covered Bonds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/01/2019

Treatment of government bonds of a third country as Level 1 assets when the credit quality step 1 is assigned according to article 114(7) of Regulation (EU) 575/2013

Are the provisions of Article 114(7) of Regulation (EU) 575/2013 (use of the lower RW applied by a third country on exposures to the central government in case of equivalent supervisory and regulatory arrangements) applicable also to the LCR framework?

  • 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
  • ID: 2018_4148
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/01/2019