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Defining the risk factor for third-country investment firms in K-TCD calculation

Should the third-country investment firms be classified as investment firms or other counterparties for the purposes of defining the risk factor per counterparty type pursuant to Article 26 IFR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6450
  • Topic: K-factor requirements
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 09/06/2023

Qualifying holdings outside the financial sector

How should the deduction amount of qualifying holdings outside the financial sector, referred to in Article 10(1) IFR, be understood?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2021_5866
  • Topic: Capital requirements
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 09/06/2023

"Unexpected outflow" in the context of applying large exposure exemptions granted in Article 390(6)(c) CRR

Are the exposures created between service providers, which are caused by clients signing up to new products outside of business hours, an “unexpected outflow” in the context of applying the exemptions granted in Article 390(6)(c) of the Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as amended by Regulation (EU) 2019/876 (CRR2)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2020_5342
  • Topic: Large exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 09/06/2023

Treatment for strategic long-term non-listed equity exposures under simple risk weight approach as per Article 155(2) CRR

Can a RW of 190% be applied to long-term strategic investments in non-listed equity exposures as per Article 155(2) CRR, provided that they are in a sufficiently diversified portfolio?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2023_6716
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 09/06/2023

Treatment of reversal features in cash pooling arrangements

Is a reversal of the daily transfer from the original accounts to the target account, as contractually agreed with the customer, at the next business day compliant with the requirements for net reporting of cash pooling arrangements as set out in Article 429b (2) CRR?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6585
  • Topic: Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 09/06/2023

Reporting of SA exposures in IRB-CIU look-through

Do CIU exposures for which the IRB look-through approach is applied, but which are subject to the Standardised Approach for calculating the risk-weighted exposure amount as per Article 152(4), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, have to be reported in template C 07.00 (CR SA) or in the C 08 templates (CR IRB)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6528
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/05/2023

F 46 EBA_v1226

How to match the re-translated opening balance (in current year) with closing balance (from prior year) on F 46 when the constant USD value is being converted to EURO in two different reporting periods with different FX rate? If the same prior year converted value in EURO is stated in opening balance (before restatement row 10), then how and which row does the FX translation impact shall be reflected?  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6520
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/05/2023

Treatment of Security Lending and Borrowing Transactions for LCR purposes

How should Security Lending and Security Borrowing Transactions be reported in the LCR template, considering the changes introduced by the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/786 about Security Financing Transactions? In detail, shall Security Lending and Borrowing transactions be reported as collateral swaps in C 75.00 template or shall they be reported as Security Financing Transactions in C 73.00 and C 74.00?

  • 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: 2022_6557
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 26/05/2023

Interest-income on credit impaired financial assets (template F 16)

Template F 16, r0280, of which: interest-income on credit impaired financial assets: if a financial asset was credit impaired during for example Q1, Q2, and Q3, but during Q4 became performing again, should we still report the interest-income reflected on this row in the Q4-reporting?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6350
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Treatment of TIPS and IP in AE reporting

Should balances kept on accounts related to TIPS (TARGET Instant Payment Settlement) and IP (Instant payments) in the encumbrance reporting, be reported as encumbered or not?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6523
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Treatment of additional collateral on top of overcollateralization of Covered bond program

Should a surplus above overcollateralization (above contractual amounts/percentages and also above what rating agencies require to maintain the rating) within a covered bond programme be considered as encumbered, when release and re-assignment of any security requires a signature from external parties (incl. the trustee for the covered bond programme) based on the programme documentation? If the required signature before withdrawal should still be seen as resulting in encumbrance, also in the case of the situation described below, would it then be relevant, if the Trustee contractually would not be able to say ‘No’ if the after the requested withdrawal the required overcollateralization threshold are still met?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6522
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Asset Encumbrance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Notional amount reported under SA_CCR model

SA_CCR model: How do we report notional amount in template C 34.02 {r0030, c0030} in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/451 (ITS on supervisory reporting)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6603
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

K-CON own fund requirements

How should the K-CON requirement be calculated under Article 39 of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033?   

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2022_6473
  • Topic: Concentration risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Applicability of notional and CMV concepts to SFT for the purpose of template C 34.02

For a bank using the FCCM exposure calculation method for SFT according to Chapter 4 of Title II of Part Three CRR (Article 223), it is not clear how to populate columns 0030, 0040/0050 and 0150 of template C 34.02 in Annex I to Regulation (EU) 2021/451 (ITS on Reporting). The notional amount and the CMV are not recognized concepts for SFT. These parameters are not quoted in any article regarding SFT. A repo transaction is composed by only 2 parameters, the security posted and the cash received. In case of a repurchase agreement transaction under the Financial Collateral Comprehensive Method, please precisely answer the following questions: What is the notional amount of the repo to be reported in column 0030 ? The security value posted (or the security nominal ?) The Cash nominal received The security value posted - the cash received Not relevant, do not populate Other, please indicate What is the current market value of the repo to be reported in column 0040/0050 ? The security value posted The Cash nominal received The security value posted - the cash received The security value posted as a negative position (column 0050) Not relevant, do not populate Other, please indicate What is the exposure value pre-crm to be reported in column 0150 ? The security value posted The security value posted - cash received Other, please indicate

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6630
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - COREP (incl. IP Losses)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Reporting of central bank exposures - C 40.00

Is the intention of data points {row 0090;col 0010} and {row 0090;col 0020} to exclude central bank claims given individual disclosure in {row 0380;col 0010} under taxonomy 3.0 guidance?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6631
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Leverage ratio
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

NACE sector K- 'Financial and insurance activities' in F 06.01

How should the instructions from Regulation (EU) 2021/451, (ITS), Annex V, Part 2, paragraph 92 ‘Institutions shall report loans and advances to non-financial corporations which engage in financial or insurance activities in ‘K – Financial and insurance activities’’ be understood? As an example, should a counterparty whose primary activity is NACE code 7010 ‘Activities of head offices’ (sector M), who also performs the activity ‘other financial service activities, except insurance and pension funding n.e.c.’ (NACE code 6499) be presented in F 06.01 in sector K ‘Financial and insurance activities’ or in sector M ‘Professional, scientific and technical activities’?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6673
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

NACE reporting in FINREP

In FINREP where presentation towards NACE sector is requested, in case the immediate counterparty is a holding company, should the applicable NACE sector be based on the NACE sector applicable for the holding company itself, or should the NACE sector be based on the NACE sector of the specific obligor under the holding company which receives the funding from the holding company?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions
  • ID: 2022_6672
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023

Finrep validation v11942_m - Collaterals received on NPL

According to the validation rule v11942_m it has been stated that {F 18.00.d, r0070, c0200} + {F 18.00.c, r0070, c0210} <= {F 18.00.a, r0070, c0060} + {F 18.00.b, r0070, c0150}. However, in our case net amount of total gross carrying amount of non-performing loans (NPL) + Accumulated Impairment is not higher than the amount of total collaterals and financial guarantees received for these loans. Since this validation ID’s severity is being stated as ‘warning’ can we proceed with the actual amounts and report with this situation?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2023_6711
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 28/04/2023