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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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)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)

Reporting of currency for undrawn committed facilities in Concentration of Counterbalancing Capacity template C 71.00

What currency identifier should be reported on template C 71.00 for an undrawn committed facility that is available to draw in multiple currencies and how should it be reported on significant currency returns?

  • 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)

Prices for Various Lengths of Funding-currency spreads

We would like to seek further guidance on whether the EBA expects firms to calculate spreads for all currencies, which would then be used to calculate the total, or if the EBA would accept reporting for material funding only?

  • 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)

References to items covered by a Deposit Guarantee scheme in the instructions on r070 and r090 of C 68.00

Is the text of Annex XIX in the final draft ITS 680/2014 and DPM 2.7 ITS on supervisory reporting correct when it refers to ALMM C 68.00, items 1.4 and 1.4.2 as ‘savings accounts without a notice period for withdrawal which is greater than 30 days covered by a Deposit Guarantee Scheme according to Directive 2014/ 49/ EU or an equivalent deposit guarantee scheme in a third country’?

  • 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)

Cap on the own funds requirement for a net position

Article 335 refers ‘The institution may cap the own funds requirement for specific risk of a net position in a debt instrument at the maximum possible default-risk related loss.....’. This article suggests that the Specific Risk requirement in column 060, rows 260 to 320 (column 060) of template C 18.00 should be the adjusted ‘capped own funds requirement’ and reduced to the maximum loss.However, the validation rules v0578_m and v0579_m require that column 060, rows 310 and 320 are the result of column 050 multiplied by 0.08 or 0.12. Of course, capping and adjusting the specific risk breaks these rules and prevents submission. Should the requirement itself be reduced or should the Net position in column 050 of the relevant rows be adjusted?

  • 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)

Validointissääntö e4900_n, C 07.00 Standardimenetelmän mukaiset pääomavaatimukset (Validation rule e4900_n: C 07.00 Capital requirements according to the standard method)

Original questionMillä lomakkeen C 07.00 rivillä ryhmän sisäiset katetut joukkovelkakirjat pitää ilmoittaa? English translationOn which row of form C 07.00 should intra-group covered bonds be indicated?

  • 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)

Amended validation rule v3693_s in v2.6

According to the amended validation rule column 060, row 010 of template C 05.01 should be reported as greater or equal to zero.On the other hand, the ITS sign convention states any amount that increases the own funds or the capital requirements shall be reported as a positive figure while any amount that reduces the total own funds or the capital requirements shall be reported as a negative figure.In our example given in ‘Background on the question’ box, row 010, column 060 (Total adjustments) represents net deductions and therefore is to be reported as negative. In fact in EBA Q&A 2015_2482 it states that those rows of column 060 which show deductions according to final provisions are reported with a negative sign.

  • 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)

Validation rule v4886_m

A new validation rule v4886_m has been added to taxonomy 2.6 which specifies that : [C 03.00 (r010;030;050;070-120)] {c010} < 1 This rule fails to consider that a firm may hold surplus capital for other purposes (such as Large Exposures) that would cause failure of this rule.

  • 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)

Value assigned to liabilities arising from derivative contracts

For the purpose of Article 5(3) of Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/63 the valuation of derivative contracts should be done in accordance with the methodology specified in Article 429(6) and (7) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) [as amended by Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/62].How should this methodology be applied when adjusting the liability side, i.e. derivative contracts with a negative market value?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/63 - DR on ex ante contributions to resolution financing arrangements