- Question ID
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2014_716
- Legal act
- Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
- Topic
- Own funds
- Article
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467, 468
- COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs/Recommendations
- Regulation (EU) No 680/2014 - ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions (repealed)
- Article/Paragraph
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CA5.1
- Type of submitter
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Credit institution
- Subject matter
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Handling of unrealised gains/losses in Own Funds and Exposures
- Question
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Does unrealised gains/losses refer to all gains and losses for financial instruments accounted at fair value which occured life to date or only unrealised gains/losses of the current year? Will unrealised gaines and losses despite being deducted from own funds be still part of the exposure? How should the position "Losses for the current financial year" be calculated? Without taking into account unrealised gains/losses?
- Background on the question
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Banks who use IFRS for current COREP-Reporting use for instruments accounted at fair value the fair value at the reporting date as the base for calculating risk exposures. This fair value includes all unrealised gain/losses. According to CRR this calculation has not changed. New in the CRR is the correction of unrealised gains/losses in the own funds. This means, that gains/losses are recognised twice, once in risk exposures and once in own funds. If a total loss for the current financial year results from unrealised losses, this would be the third time the loss would be recognised.
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- Final answer
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1) C 05.01 template reflects the adjustments made to the components of own funds subject to the transitional provisions laid down in Articles 465 to 491 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), namely "Unrealized gains and losses" (row 110) and deductions, including in particular "Losses for the current financial year" (row 150).Unrealized gains and losses reported in row 110 include those items reported in rows 120 to 138 of C 05.01. All of those unrealized gains and losses, irrespective of whether they were originally recognized in the statement of other comprehensive income or, for investment property only, the profit and loss, are cumulative unrealized gains and losses (i.e. unrealized gains and losses since the acquisition of the instrument).2)The exposure value for positions on which the risk weighted exposure amounts are calculated (under Standardized Approach) are defined in Article 111 of CRR, while the exposure value for positions on which the risk weighted exposure amounts are calculated (according to IRB approach) are defined in Article 166 of the CRR. Unless otherwise specified, the exposure value is based, in both instances, on the accounting value of the asset. As a general principle, as Article 35 requires not to make any adjustments to remove unrealised gains and losses from own funds, the accounting value should reflect these unrealised gains or losses depending on, and in accordance with, the applicable accounting measurement basis. However, where thein case filters on unrealised gains or losses in relation to such assets exist (for example, in accordance with the transitional provisionstemporary treatment provided in Articles 467 and468 CRR (quick fix) with regard to the unrealised gains or losses measured at fair value through other comprehensive income is applied, the exposure value of the related underlyingsuchassets will need to be adjusted by the corresponding amount of the accumulatedcorrespondingunrealisedlosses orgains or losses which have been removed from the calculation of Common Equity Tier 1 (CET1) items in accordance with the formula established in paragraph 1 of that Article.filtered in or out from own funds respectively. For instance, if 100% of unrealised gains are filtered out from own funds, the entire unrealised gains should not be included in the exposure value. See further Q&A 2014_749.3) Losses for the current financial year reported in row 150 relates to losses determined in accordance with the applicable accounting framework under the CRR/CRD, unless the losses are already included in the firm's Common Equity Tier 1 items (Article 13(3) of Regulation (EU) 241/2014 (RTS on Own Funds). - Status
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Final Q&A
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Answer prepared by the EBA.
- Note to Q&A
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Update 26.03.2021: This Q&A has not yet been reviewed by the EBA in the light of the changes introduced to Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR).Update 28.10.2021: This Q&A has been amended in light of the change(s) in Articles 467 and 468 to Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR), applicable from 27.06.2020.
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