Consultation on RTS on the calculation of Kirb in accordance with the purchased receivables approach

The European Banking Authority (EBA) launched today a public consultation on draft Regulatory Technical Standards (RTS) specifying the conditions to allow institutions to calculate capital requirements of the securitised exposures (KIRB) in accordance with the purchased receivables approach laid down in the amended Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR). These draft RTS aim at striking the right balance between the need to acknowledge the specific circumstances under which institutions calculate capital requirements in the context of a securitisation transaction and the need to maintain appropriately safe and prudent requirements on the internal modelling of capital requirements. The consultation runs until 19 September 2018.

 

In order to expand the use of the Securitisation Internal Ratings-Based Approach (SEC-IRBA), that sits now at the top of the hierarchy of approaches for calculating capital requirements of securitisation positions, the CRR amendment accompanying the Securitisation Regulation introduces the possibility of using the provisions that normally apply to purchased receivables under the general IRB credit risk framework. This way, institutions may calculate the KIRB, and the corresponding risk parameters, (probability of default - PD - and loss given default - LGD), under the provisions of the purchased receivables and then use them as input in the SEC-IRBA, along with other information on the securitisation position. 

 

This draft RTS specify the conditions under which institutions may use the provisions on purchased receivables to make them fully workable in the context of securitisation transactions. For these purposes, retail securitised exposures shall be treated as purchased retail receivables and non-retail securitised exposures as purchased corporate receivables.

 

The main areas that the draft RTS covers are the following: 

Responses to this consultation can be sent to the EBA by clicking on the "send your comments" button on the consultation page. Please note that the deadline for the submission of comments is 19 September 2018. A public hearing will take place at the EBA premises on 4 September 2018 from 14:00 to 16:00 UK time. 

The RTS have been developed according to Article 255(9) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), as amended by Regulation (EU) 2401/2017. Article 255(9) mandates the EBA to develop draft regulatory technical standards to further specify the conditions to allow institutions to calculate KIRB for the pools of underlying exposures in accordance with Article 255(4).