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General credit risk adjustment (GCRA) inclusion into Tier 2 capital

For the purpose of the inclusion into institutions' Tier 2 capital and in the event of interim profits or year-end profits that have not been approved in accordance with Article 26(2) CRR (a.k.a. "interim GCRAs"), are the general credit risk adjustments (GCRAs) required to be immediately deducted from institutions' CET1 capital?Are "interim GCRAs" eligible as a Tier 2 capital regardless either the fulfilment of Article 26(2) of CRR, or without immediate reduction from CET1 capital?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 183/2014 - RTS for the calculation of specific and general credit risk adjustments

Calculation of the ratio variable to fixed remuneration

Is it possible to value Long Term Instruments, included in the variable component, according to the IFRS 2 as accounting standard?In particular, IFRS 2 requires fair value accounting including consideration of the optional character of the Long Term instruments. Is this allowed by CRD IV and EBA GLs on sound remuneration?The question refers specifically to the calculation of the amount of variable remuneration for the purpose of the compliance-check with regard to the 200% bonus cap as transposed in the national law. In particular it refers to the value to be used for instruments, Long Term Instruments, included in the variable component. Is it possible to value them, according to the IFRS 2 as accounting standard? In particular, IFRS 2 requires fair value accounting including consideration of the optional character of the Long Term instrument, i.e. taking into account probability criteria, e.g. by means of Monte Carlo simulation with regard to optional elements of the Long Term instrument (e.g. future performance of shares)?

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2021/04 - Guidelines on sound remuneration policies under CRD (repealing EBA/GL/2015/22)

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)

Treatment of negative accrued interests in the foreign exchange risk

Do negative accrued interests reduce the fx position, where as positive accrued interests increase the fx position?

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

Treatment of negative accrued interests in the credit risk

Do negative accrued interests reduce the exposure value, whereas positive accrued interests increase the exposure value?In particular, are negative accrued interests deducted from CET1 and should a reduction be done, if the negative accrued interests are already included in the retained earnings, according to article 26(1)(c), or in the losses for the current financial year, according to Article 36 (1) a of CRR?

  • 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)

Clarification on "explicit guarantee arrangements"

The CRR definition of "“public sector entity" lists "has explicit guarantee arrangements" as one of the requirements, without further explaining or limiting this requirement. Does CRR require that all or the greater part of the entities liabilities feature an explicit guarantee by its owners or sponsor which the entity's creditors can call on? Or is "explicit guarantee arrangements" to be understood to also cover other explicit support arrangements like e.g. a guarantee on the entity's lendings for the benefit of the entity or a commitment by the owners/sponsors to guarantee the entity's ability to fulfil its obligations on its liabilities?

  • 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

Counterparty breakdown by sector – definition of other financial corporations and non financial corporations

Article 35 in Annex V of Finrep defines 'other financial corporations' as all financial corporations and quasi-corporations other than credit institutions such as investment firms, investment funds, insurance companies, pension funds, collective investment undertakings, and clearing houses as well as remaining financial intermediaries and financial auxiliaries; ‘Non-financial corporations’ are corporations and quasi-corporations not engaged in financial intermediation but principally in the production of market goods and non-financial services according to the ECB BSI Regulation. Subsidiaries set up within non – financial group to issue debt instruments or to perform liquidity management activities within the group should be considered as ‘other financial corporations’ or ‘Non-financial corporations’?

  • 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 Zuordnung Abwicklungsanstalten

Für FinRep sind in verschiedenen Tabellen Aufgliederungen nach sog. Counterparties erforderlich. In der Praxis stellt sich häufig die Frage, in welchen Sektor Abwicklungsanstalten einzuordnen sind. Hierunter fallen in der Praxis regelmäßig gehaltene Positionen ggü. der Heta Asset Resolution AG, der Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) sowie der FMW-Wertmanagement. Auf Basis der Counterparty-Definition in Annex V (1.35) ist in der Praxis ein eindeutige Zuordnung nur schwer möglich. Insofern stellt sich die Frage nach einer aus Sicht der Aufsicht korrekten Zuordnung von gehaltenen Positionen gegenüber den o.g. Gesellschaften.For Financial Reporting, breakdowns by ‘counterparties’ are required in various tables. In practice, this frequently gives rise to the question of which sector should be used for deconsolidated environments. This includes, in practice, positions regularly held in respect of Heta Asset Resolution AG, Erste Abwicklungsanstalt (EAA) and FMS Wertmanagement. On the basis of the counterparty definition in Annex V (1.35), a clear classification is difficult in practice. In this respect, there is a need to correctly (from a supervisory perspective) classify positions held in respect of the above-mentioned companies.

  • 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)

Short positions in financial institution capital instruments

1. For a contract between bank A and B as set out in the background that is a forward sell (physical delivery), can Bank A deduct from its own funds the net position on FSE?2. For a contract between bank A and B as set out in the background that is cash-settled (TRS, future, options), can Bank A deduct from its own funds the net position on FSE?

  • 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

Outflows from operational deposits

What is the difference between deposits arising from clearing accounts of financial institutions and deposits arising from correspondent banking?

  • 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

‘Indirect holdings’ in capital instruments issued by financial sector entities (CRR Article 4 paragraph 1 subparagraph 114).

The definition of indirect holdings requires that the institution performs an internal assessment in order to determine if, in the event the capital instruments issued by the financial sector entity were permanently written off, the loss that the institution would incur as a result would not be materially different from the loss the institution would incur from a direct holding of those capital instruments. Can the institution use stress scenarios that are already utilised by the institution for internal risk management purposes when making this assessment?

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

EBA Benchmarking 2016

In template C 103.00 ”Details on exposures in High Default Portfolio”, column 230 and 240, it is demanded the RWA* and RWA**. For those purposes, we need to calculate a PD* and PD**. Our question is about how PD* must be estimated. In this sense we have read the specifications and we need more clarifications or be sure our understanding is correct.

  • 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)

Termination date

1cFor portfolio 1.28, should the scheduled termination dates be 5 years (i.e. December 2020) rather than 4 years 1d and the answer was 1cThe scheduled termination date is 20/12/2020 1d. However, Section 2.7 of Annex V refers to scheduled termination date of 20December 2019. Should the termination date be December 2020?

  • 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)

Is collateral from REPO and SBL transactions taken into consideration for the BRRD base calculation?

Could liabilities arising from repos and securities lending and borrowing transactions be netted with the collateral posted what would result in a BRRD base decrease?

  • 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

Capability to perform an impact analysis for 15 consecutive business days for extensions and changes of internal approaches for market risk

Do the regulatory technical standards for assessing the materiality of extensions and changes of internal approaches when calculating own funds requirements (Delegated Regulation (EU) No 529/2014, as amended by Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/942 for market risk) imply that institutions using internal approaches for market risk shall have the capability to perform a parallel run for 15 consecutive business days for all model changes in their market risk models, such that the materiality of the extension or change can be assessed in accordance with Article 7a(1)(c) of that regulation?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2015/942 - RTS on materiality of extensions and changes in internal approaches for market risk

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)

NSFR - Definition of Other Equity Instruments

How are Other Equity Instruments defined? Are Investment Funds (OGAW and AIF) considered as Other Equity and therefore reported in lines 720 to 770 of the NSFR? If not, in which line are Investment funds to be reported if they dont qualify as liquid assets.

  • 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)

Reported overshootings in C 24.00

How should the number of overshootings in VaR be reported in C 24.00?

  • 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)

VaR Multipliers

How should the figures in VaR and SVaR multiplication factors be reported in C 24.00?

  • 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)

Calculation of the threshold for using the simplified approach for the determination of AVAs.

Exactly matching, offsetting fair-valued assets and liabilities shall be excluded from the calculation of the threshold for the simplified approach in the determination of AVAs. Does “exactly matching” refer to specific conditions regarding the counterparties of assets and liabilities that otherwise may qualify to be offset?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2016/101 - RTS for prudent valuation under Article 105(14) CRR