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Minority Interests

In relation to the calculations mentioned in Article 81 CRR, does the information relating to a subsidiary have to be calculated before or after the consolidation process of that subsidiary in the group?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Level of data to be reported for LEI codes provided in Annex I

For Template C 101.00, should we report position of the specific Low Default Counterparty mentioned in Annex I or also report position of the underlying organisations belonging to that Low Default Counterparty?

  • 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)

Data level for template C 101.00 of Annex III related to Exposure Classes (column 020)

We notice that the same customer can fall into multiple exposure classes. How should we report such customer which has multiple exposure classes? Would it fall in one row with exposure class of the largest exposure or split exposure per exposure class in multiple rows?Example:There are customers in our dataset that could fall into 2 exposure classes being Corporate – Specialised Lending and Corporate – Other.How to treat such customers?

  • 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)

Clarification on Type of Facility to be used for Template C 102.00

How to interpret ‘short term’ for letters of credit mentioned in Option g) ‘Issued short-term letters of credit and other medium-low risk off-balance sheet items’?

  • 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)

Repurchase Agreements in template F 08.01 versus assets encumbered in template F 15.00 – EBA validation v0912_m

Should we align the template F 08.01 and F 15.00 on repurchase agreement reporting?

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or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)

Market risk capital requirement for CIUs where a look-through approach is applied

Can the market risk capital requirement for CIUs where a look-through approach based on the underlying investments is applied be capped at the amount applicable if no look-through approach would be applied?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

FinRep validation rules v3079_m and v3080_m

According to the validation rules v3079_m and v3080_m, the loans and receivables for Non-financial corporations of template F 06.00 have to be equal with the loans and receivables for Non-financial corporations of template F 18.00. It is explicitly stated that only DEBT INSTRUMENTS AT FAIR VALUE OTHER THAN HFT have to be reported in table F 18.00. However table F 06.00 includes all debt instruments including HFT. Therefore the validation rule cannot be run with the defined operator "=".

  • 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)

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

Sliding scale method

We would prefer to apply the "sliding scale" method mentioned in EBA/GL/2015/10, but a strict interpretation of the methodology within the guidelines prevents the use of the whole defined scale.Would it be in compliance with the Guidelines to adjust the formulas in order to achieve ARW along the whole defined scale? And what adjustment would be preferable?

  • 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

What considutes a fair value of encumberred and non-encumberred asset for morgages on immovable property?

We would like to clarify what constitutes a fair value for the purpopse of encumbered and non-encumbered assets which are link to morgage of immovable property. What value should be used for the reporting of the Asset encumbrance template : Market Value (MV) or Mortgage plus interest. In addition tot this, should this amount be restricted to cover the balance of the exposure at the reference date . For example an exposure with an immovable propererty MV of €1million and a mortgage plus interest €850k and a balance of account of €840k; What amount should we report as Fair Value in the Template ?

  • 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)

Own Credit Spread

Due to the endorsement of IFRS 9 for annual periods beginning before 1 January 2018, an entity may elect to early apply only the requirements for the presentation of gains and losses on financial liabilities designated as at fair value through profit or loss in paragraphs 5.7.1(c), 5.7.7–5.7.9, 7.2.14 and B5.7.5–B5.7.20 without applying the other requirements of IFRS 9. If an entity chooses to early apply those requirements it recognizes gains and losses on financial liabilities designated as at fair value through profit or loss in other comprehensive income instead of in P&L. Therefore, those gains and losses have to be reported in Template F 01.03. However, the taxonomy 2.5.01 for FinRep as at December 31st, 2016 does not yet include a separate row for this item. Where should gains and losses on financial liabilities designated as at fair value through profit or loss recognized in other comprehensive income be reported in template F 01.03 as at December 31st, 2016?

  • 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)

O-SII buffer / Capital conservation buffer application

On which ratio set in article 92 of CRR (CET1/T1 or Total Capital Ratio) the buffers set in part 4 of CRD (Capital conservation buffer and O-SII buffer) should be imposed?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

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)

Partial and Total-Write-Offs in FINREP IFRS 9 templates F 04.03.1 and F 04.03.2

FINREP Forms F.04.03.1 and F.04.03.2 require the disclosure of partial and total-write offs in columns 080 and 090. Reference is made to IFRS 9.5.4.4 and B5.4.9 and Annex V.Part 2.72-74.Both references are however silent, as to how long the disclosure about in particular total write-offs is required. Is the disclosure of total write-offs only required in the year, when the total-write off has occurred? (Rationale: A (total) write-off constitutes a derecognition event - a disclosure for instruments no longer recognised does not make sense in the following year).Alternative view: Guidance in Part 2.72 is equally valid for partial and total write-offs. This means, the amounts in columns 080 and 090 ‘shall be reported until the total extinguishment of all the reporting institution’s rights by expiry of the statute-of-limitations period, forgiveness or other causes, or until recovery’, i.e. as long as ‘they are subject to enforcement activities’. This would mean, that partial write-offs would NOT be required to be reported, if a certain amount (e.g. 50%) was forgiven and therefore written off and is therefore also no longer enforced. Simultaneously, even total-write-offs would have to be reported, as long as enforcement activities are undertaken, also in later years. This view however seems to be somewhat in contradiction with IFRS 9.B.5.4.9, which stipulates that write-offs should only occur, ‘if the entity has no reasonable prospects of recovering any further cash flows from the financial asset’. Thus, the column would have to be filled in only in the very rare cases, where ‘the entity has no reasonable prospect of recovering any further cash flows from the financial assets’, but still undertakes enforcement activities.Is this interpretation 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)

Valuation of immovable property performed by statistical model

Does the reference to the independent valuer in Article 229(1) and Article 208(3)(b) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), permit the recognition of a statistical model of property valuation, the outcomes of which are periodically verified by other independent valuer, as independent valuer?Does the reference to the independent valuer in Article 229(1) and Article 208(3)(b) CRR permit that before a credit decision, a property would be evaluated by a statistical model, the outcomes of which are periodically verified by another independent valuer, without additional confirmation by an independent valuer for each property valuation made by a model?Does the reference to the independent valuer in Article 229(1) and Article 208(3)(b) CRR permit that before a credit decision, a property would be evaluated by a statistical model, where outcomes of a model are periodically verified by another independent valuer, and there is an additional confirmation or correction for the each statistical valuation, after a credit decision by another independent valuer? 

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable

Instrumenty w Tier II / Tier 2 instruments and incentives to redeem or repay subordinated bonds prior to their maturity.

Original questionArtykuł 63 lit. h) Rozporządzenia Parlamentu Europejskiego i Rady (UE) nr 575/2013 z dnia 26 czerwca 2013 r., stwierdza, że aby instrumenty kapitałowe i pożyczki podporządkowane mogły zostać zakwalifikowane do kapitału Tier II „przepisy regulujące dane instrumenty lub pożyczki podporządkowane, stosownie do przypadku, nie zawierają żadnej zachęty do wykupu lub spłaty – stosownie do przypadku – kwoty głównej tych instrumentów lub pożyczek przez daną instytucję przed terminem ich zapadalności”. Równocześnie art. 20 Rozporządzenia Delegowanego Komisji (UE) Nr 241/2014 z dnia 7 stycznia 2014 r., określa formę i charakter zachęt do wcześniejszego wykupu do celów art. 63 lit h) Rozporządzenia nr 575/2013. Czy przepisy regulujące pożyczkę podporządkowaną, w których zapisano, że emitent po uzyskaniu zgody Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego, ma prawo, ale nie obowiązek dokonać wcześniejszego wykupu przedmiotowych obligacji, nie wcześniej jednak niż w terminie 5 lat po dacie emisji oraz, iż w okresie ostatnich 5 lat przed terminem wykupu obligacji, będzie sukcesywnie podnosił oprocentowanie wyemitowanych instrumentów, zawierają zachętę do wcześniejszego wykupu lub spłaty? Jeżeli tak, to czy zgodnie z zapisami art. 20 ust. 2 Rozporządzenia Delegowanego Komisji (UE) Nr 241/2014, oznacza to, że w przepisach regulujących wskazaną wyżej pożyczkę podporządkowaną zawarta jest „opcja kupna połączona ze zwiększeniem spreadu kredytowego instrumentu w przypadku nieprzeprowadzenia wezwania do sprzedaży” lub inna forma zachęt określona w Rozporządzeniu Nr 241/2014? Jeżeli tak, to czy formalny brak zgody Komisji Nadzoru Finansowego (art. 78 ust. 1 Rozporządzenia nr 575/2013) na wcześniejszy wykup wskazanych wyżej obligacji podporządkowanych jest równoznaczny z anulowaniem zachęty do wcześniejszego wykupu lub spłaty?English translation:The provisions regulating a specific subordinated loan that has been issued in 2012 state that, having received the consent of the Competent Authority, the issuer is entitled to, but not required to, redeem the bonds in question prior to their maturity date, and that, within the final five years prior to the bond redemption date, the issuer shall successively increase the interest rate for the instruments issued.Q1: Are the corresponding provisions deemed to include any incentive to redeem or repay prior to the maturity date despite the need to obtain first the consent from the Competent Authority? Said otherwise, is a formal lack of consent of the relevant Competent Authority (Article 78(1) of the CRR) for redemption of the aforementioned subordinated bonds prior to their maturity equivalent to cancelling an incentive to redeem or repay them prior to their maturity?Q2: What would be the regulatory status of the subordinated bonds in the case where the relevant Competent Authority does not give its consent for the redemption of such instruments prior to their maturity?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 241/2014 - RTS for Own Funds requirements for institutions

Leased assets residual value under standardised method

With regards to the risk-weighted exposure on residual value of leased assets, CRR article 134 (7) states that it shall be computed as follows: “1/t * 100 % * residual value”, where t is the greater between 1 and the nearest integer corresponding to the remaining maturity of the lease.The institution's understanding of the aforementioned CRR reference is that the Initial Exposure shall correspond to the residual value of the leased assets and that the EAD value shall be applied a 1/t discounted factor.According to the institution, the treatment does not seem to fit the Corep logics nor its structure since it raised the same blocking errors as those referred to in item 1) [submitter probably refers to Q 3064 and v0010_h, v0306_m, v0307_m, v0308_m, v0312_m].In order to bypass the blocking errors, we have made the decision to align the EAD values with their respective Initial Exposure amounts.

  • 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)