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Interpretation of ‘ The degree of correlation between the value of the assets relied upon for protection and the credit quality of the obligor shall not be too high.’

In Article 194, Quote Institutions may recognise funded credit protection in the calculation of the effect of credit risk mitigation only where the lending institution has the right to liquidate or retain, in a timely manner, the assets from which the protection derives in the event of the default, insolvency or bankruptcy — or other credit event set out in the transaction documentation — of the obligor and, where applicable, of the custodian holding the collateral. The degree of correlation between the value of the assets relied upon for protection and the credit quality of the obligor shall not be too high. Unquote My question is about the aforementioned correlation. If a obligor’s major asset is a very valuable mine asset, and the mine asset is collateralized by a bank as security for a loan, is it eligible for the bank to consider the value of the mine asset for calculating the ‘risk-weighted asset’? The value of the mine asset is valued by independent & renowned evalution agency and it meets with all other regulatory requirements for eligible collateral.

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2016/09 - Guidelines on corrections to modified duration for debt instruments under Article 340(3) CRR

Unrated short term claim/exposure

As per CRR Article 120(para 3, subpara c), it states: "If there is a short-term assessment and such an assessment determines a less favourable risk weight than the use of the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures, as specified in paragraph 2, then the general preferential treatment for short-term exposures shall not be used and all unrated short-term claims shall be assigned the same risk weight as that applied by the specific short-term assessment." Question: 1. Is the term claim and exposure used interchangeably and mean the same?                   2. What is meant by unrated short term claim in this paragraph? If there is a general issuer rating available for the counterparty, but no issue specific rating for the exposure to the counterparty, will the exposures with residual maturity of less than 3 months be classed as Unrated and not eligible for preferential risk weight treatment as per CRR Article 120 (2)?                   3. Also, for ex- if the bank has trading book exposure to this institution for exposure less than 3 months. But this institution has issued short term debt, but the bank has no exposure to it, in that case which rating will be used to risk weight the exposure in the trading book. Will it be the issuer rating or short term debt rating the institution has issued which the bank has no exposure?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions

Definition of 'explicit guarantee arrangements' for the purpose of classification of non-commercial undertakings as public sector entities

What conditions should be met by a given agreement in order to qualify as an 'explicit guarantee arrangement'? Shall the ‘explicit guarantee arrangements’ for the purpose of definition of public sector entities also be ‘guarantees’ eligible as unfunded credit protection or not? How much should the guarantee cover?

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

Maximum amount of the collateral or guarantee that can be considered in F 13.01 and F 18.00

Could you please more precisely clarify what should be used for “Maximum amount of the collateral or guarantee that can be considered”? Primarily use Market value of collateral as it is prescribed in ESRB Recommendation? or  Each Institute can have individual approach, where Internal collateral value (Market value of the assets reduced by a certain percentage => the “haircut”) also can be primarily used?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Exposures for trades at QCCPs (excluding initial margin and default fund contributions)

Under CRR Article 306/307 only default fund contributions are seperately calculated as an exposure to a CCP. Initial margin would be recognised within the standard exposure calculation per Article 306(3) as such it is unclear how to populate rows 0020 and 0080 seperately particularly as c0010/r0010 is greyed out and therefore no overall accurate exposure value is populatable. The format of the template seems more aligned to the calculation of EAD by the CCP itself for the purposes of calculating KCCP under Article 50b of Regulation 648/2012. This is particularly the case given the expectations set by validation rule v09847_m. Could you please clarify the correct reporting of these rows? Is it correct for example to report the value of initial margin (post any volatility adjustment and alpha) in row 0080/column 0010 and then just subtract the equivalent amount from the overall exposure to the CCP to report the remaining value in row 0020 such that the sum of the two will equal the total EAD to the CCP and maintain consistency with RWA for c0020? Alternatively should the template be resturctured to show only EAD and DFC rows and populate the full EAD as calculated under the CRR including initial margin in row 0020?    

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Definition of financial institution and mixed activity insurance holding company

Can a mixed-activity insurance holding company (MAIHC) that has at least one subsidiary credit institution pursuant to Article 4(1)(1) CRR qualify as a financial institution pursuant to Article 4(1)(26) CRR?

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

Specification and operationalisation of the phrase "at all times"

How is the wording in Article 92 (1) CRR to be understood with regard to compliance with own funds requirements “at all times” in terms of verifiability?

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

Validation rules of templates F 24.01 and F 24.02 specifically EGDQ_0665, EGDG_0666, XBRL v8035_m and XBRL v8052_m. These validations impose that the closing figures of the prior financial year end should tally with the opening figures of the current reporting quarter without allowing for reclassifications or changes of the counterparties’ reporting criteria segregated in F 24.01 and F 24.02, namely collateral type, and SME criteria.

For accounts which do not have a change in non-performing status, how are changes in collateral and/or SME status of the counterparty are to be reported in F 24.01 and F 24.02, since validation rules of templates F 24.01 and F 24.02, specifically EGDQ_0665, EGDG_0666, XBRL v8035_m and XBRL v8052_m, cannot all be complied with simultaneously when such changes occur after the previous financial year end?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Template C 08.01 – Validation rule v10667_m - {C 08.01.a, r0070, c0250} * sum({C 08.02, c0110, (rNNN)}) = sum({C 08.02, c0250, (rNNN)} * {C 08.02, c0110, (rNNN)})

Range of applicability of validation rule v10667_m in force starting from June 2023 with DPM 3.2.

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Modelling the risk of migration from NMDs to term deposits in the context of the constant balance sheet assumption in the NII SOT.

Is it modelling the risk of migration from NMDs to term deposits consistent with the constant balance sheet assumption in the NII SOT?

Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2022/14 - Guidelines on interest rate risk arising from non-trading book activities

Reporting of liquid assets associated with the issuance of covered bonds

Should the liquid assets, up to net outflows, held as part of the liquidity buffer in the cover portfolio associated with the issuance of covered bonds, be reported as unencumbered?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

C34.02 - reporting of VM, RC and PFE when EAD is capped for margined business under SA-CCR

Under SA-CCR, when EAD for margined business is being capped at EAD value as if unmargined business (as per CRR Article 274 (3)), should all the atributes of the netting set change in reporting as if it were unmargined business? Namely: - columns 0060 or 0070 should report no value as VM or report the VM posted/received in the margin agreement (in line with ITS)? - column 0100 should report the RC calculated as if unmargined (as per CRR Article 275 (1) formulae) or report the RC calculated based on the status of margined business (as per CRR Article 275 (2)? ; same for column 0110 for PFE - netting set should flow in row 0140, unmargined business, or in 0130, margined business (as it is contractually established)?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Reporting Requirements per type of institution

Are small and non-complex/other institutions required to use the simplified set of templates, or can they use the Large format if they already have to produce it, for example, for their holding/parent company?

Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2021/451 – ITS on supervisory reporting of institutions

Trading desk requirements for Standardized approach perimeter

Could you please confirm whether all desks in the prudential perimeter, independently from the internal model or standardized approach, should respect the requirements for trading desks reported in Article 104b and other provisions for trading desks?

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

Trading and Banking book positions within a Trading desk

Could an A-IMA eligible Trading desk have trading and banking book positions segregated in different portfolios within the same desk, given that non-trading book positions are carve-out from A-IMA calculations?

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

Classification of Repo Transaction

How can internal repo transactions be managed in the calculation of the regulatory capital requirement in the A-IMA trading desk? Can these transactions be carved out from the scope of regulatory capital requirement of the A-IMA trading desk? Does the regulation prescribe that the funding in repos should be allocated to the trading/banking book accordingly to the funding strategy purpose? (if the funding is for banking book positions, the repos are non-trading instruments, if the funding is for trading book strategy the repos are trading book instruments). Is it possible to have different prudential classification of internal repos and external repo transactions on the market?

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

Prudential Classification of Repo Transaction

What treatment for market risk capital requirement should be adopted for repos included in an A-IMA trading desk where those repos are used for funding of trading positions and valued at accrual and thus excluded from the regulatory trading book, following Basel Committee’s provision?

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

Applicability of the EUR 500 million-limit when calculating the required stable funding associated with CIUs in NSFR

Does the EUR 500 million-limit for the integration of CIUs in the liquidity buffer composition requirement indicated in article 15.1 of the LCR delegated act 2015/61 also apply to the CIU RSF in NSFR?

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

Calculation of RWA for assets that are deducted from own funds

As a follow-up question to Q&A 6106, what would be the appropriate risk weight to be used for the purposes of col 0030 'RWEAs: SA exposures' in the case of assets that are deducted from own funds?

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)

Non-applicability of the CRR (Capital Requirements Regulation) regarding OCCPs

According to Article 111 CRR, OCCPs must be included in the calculation of the Total Capital Ratio (TCR) under Pillar I, even though their economic risk is fully mitigated by the DvP mechanism. Eurex Clearing AG only includes OCCPs in their balance sheet, as per accounting standards. While the risk of OCCPs is covered in the CCP risk management framework through margins and other lines of defense, they cannot be mitigated through collateralization or netting under the CRR framework.    Regarding the information in section 1 and 2, ECAG would like to inquire whether the OCCPs can be exempted from the application of Article 111 CRR.

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

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