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Reportable maturity for ALMM C70 ROLL-OVER OF FUNDING

The ANNEX XXI instructions for the ALMM C70 Roll-overs return do not outline whether initial maturity or remaining maturity should be reported. With regard to the C70 Roll-overs return, should respondents report maturing funding at initial maturity rather than remaining maturity?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1712
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Breakdown on funding C 70.00 Roll-over of funding

What division of funding types should we use, the one defined in the ITS, or the one defined in Annex III for C 70.00 Roll-over of Funding.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1649
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Reporting of open ended funding products without a defined maturity

How do funding without a contractual maturity get reported in Additional Liquidity Monitoring Metrics? Should they be reported based on the most conservative approach?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1633
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

General principle of C70 Roll-over of funding

Is C70 a look back report for the last month or is a cumulative reports for daily data?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1632
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Scope of funding applicable

For template 69, prices of various lengths of funding, should own funds i.e. tier 1&2 be considered as funding and therefore applicable to be reported?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_2061
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Reportable maturity for ALMM C69 PRICES FOR VARIOUS LENGTHS OF FUNDING

In what time bucket in template 69 shall deposits without stated maturity be reported?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_2051
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

How the various types of sight deposit are to be treated in ALMM templates C68.00, C69.00 & C70.00, and whether it is possible to achieve a consistent treatment given the differences in requirements across these templates.

How are the three types of sight deposit (current accounts, instant access savings and term-less cash ISAs) to be treated in templates C68.00, C69.00 & C70.00?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1901
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

C69.00 – Time-periods covered by column set

What are the intended time periods for the columns “Spread” and “Volume” in template C69.00 – Prices for Various Lengths of Funding?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1802
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Possible redundant “overnight” in text.

Possible redundant “overnight” in text causing confusion.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1735
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Template C 69.00: Clarification needed about definition of transaction volume and maturity

What is meant by transaction volume in template C 69.00 and which maturity should be reported (initial or residual maturity)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2014_1700
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Calculating the threshold of 1% of total liabilities

When completing template C67.00 and C68.00 items exceeding a threshold of 1% of total liabilities are to be reported. For a report in a significant currency, is the threshold of 1% versus total liabilities in all currencies or versus total liabilities in the significant currency?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1952
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Concentration of funding by counterparties - maturities and product types for fair value of derivaties and collaterals

Institutions shall report the total of all other remaining liabilities in section 2; shall we also report weighted average initial maturity and weighted average residual maturity for the remaining liabilities or the average maturities should only be reported for counterparties exceeding a threshold of 1% of total liabilities ? How should we treat received collaterals and the fair value of derivatives, as they don’t fit in any category of product type provided in Annex XXI - Instructions for completing the additional monitoring tools template(UWF, UWNF, REPO, CB, ABS, IGCP) ? And what maturity should we assume for this kind of liabilities ( 1 day, or the initial/ residual maturity of a derivative)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1829
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Principles for completing template C67.00

Should we include items with no maturity and on-demand deposit in template C67.00?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting of Institutions
  • ID: 2015_1731
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 18/12/2015

Eligibility of religious communities or churches

Are churches or religious communities eligible protection providers under all approaches and thus included in the list of providers of Article 201 with reference to paragraph 1(b)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1908
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/12/2015

Risk weight for exposures to unrated institutions

Does Article 121 allow unrated institutions to be assigned government ratings only in the case of a government guarantee for the deposits of that bank? Additionally, does Article 121(3) apply to unrated institutions as well? Does it say that if we have a cash balance in an unrated bank we should assign a risk weight of 20%?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1869
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 11/12/2015

Application of the top-down approach based on EL calibration (article 160 al.2) - purchased receivables

Do these methods apply for other non-retail purchased receivables (i.e. institutions and sovereigns) ? For example, can an institution PD’s be calibrated using these top down approach based on EL calibration ?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_2023
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/11/2015

Definition of disputed margin call under Article 285(4)

What is the relevant definition of margin call dispute for the purpose of doubling the margin period of risk, under Article 285(4), for netting sets which have experienced a material number of extended disputes?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1986
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/11/2015

CVA Risk Charge Calculation for derivatives in the banking book with local GAAP

Do institutions that use local GAAP for accounting purposes and do not mark-to-market derivatives in the banking book have to calculate a CVA Risk Charge for derivatives in the banking book?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1975
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/11/2015

Treatment of equity, equity index and commodity futures/forward contracts under Part three, Title IV of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)

Shall equity, equity index and commodity futures/forward contracts be treated as exposure in an underlying instrument or should they be treated as combination of long and short position (holding of the underlying and borrowing maturing on the delivery date of the futures/forward contract)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1812
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/11/2015

Directorships

What is the correct interpretation of Article 91 (4) b) ii) of CRD IV setting the rules for quantifying executive and non-executive directorships within undertakings in which the significant institution holds a qualifying holding? i. An individual holding directorships in four undertakings in which the significant institution holds a qualifying holding will be treated as one single directorship with the directorship held within the significant institution being treated as a separate directorship. ii. An individual holding directorships in four undertakings in which the significant institution holds a qualifying holding with the directorship held within the significant institution not being treated as a separate directorship.

  • Legal act: Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1595
  • Topic: Internal governance
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/11/2015