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Maturity matching

Articles 45, 59 and 69 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) each include a condition that “the maturity of the short position matches the maturity of the long position or has a residual maturity of at least one year”, in order for the short position to be recognized for the calculation of the net long position. Please confirm that maturities are deemed to match for the purposes of these provisions where the maturity of the long and the short positions occur within the same calendar quarter.

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2013_253
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 12/06/2015

Reduction of CET1 by absorbing losses which are already accounted as loss brought forward

Is the prior permission of the supervisor required when an institution reduces its CET1 instruments by absorbing losses which were already accounted for as retained losses (i.e. loss brought forward)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1815
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/06/2015

Usage of the internal model for determining the own funds requirements for the specific risk associated with traded debt positions in the advanced method for Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA) risk

Are divergent internal models allowed for determining the own funds requirements for the specific risk associated with traded debt positions and for the credit valuation adjustment risk?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) No 526/2014 - RTS on proxy spread and limited smaller portfolios for CVA risk
  • ID: 2014_1686
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/06/2015

Eligible hedge of Credit Valuation Adjustment (CVA)

Please provide additional guidance on the scope of "other equivalent hedging instruments referencing the counterparty directly"

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_949
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 05/06/2015

Statement of Profit or Loss

The guidance in Annex V for the Financial Assets Held for Trading data point, Annex V.Part 2.25 says that interest income - other assets "may include" interest income from balances at central banks and several other asset classes . Does this mean this is required, ie the balance "must include" interest income from balances at central banks and the other specified asset classes , or that this is optional?

  • 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_1001
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/05/2015

F18 & F19 Commercial Real Estate

Should we assume that the row "Commercial real estate" contains the same information as "Commercial immovable property", within F20.04? That is to say, does "Commercial real estate" request loans collateralized by commercial immovable property? Thank you very much.

  • 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_1006
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/05/2015

Currency in which the information that the institutions report to the competent authorities of the home member State must be submitted, according to art. 415, par.2. (Templates: C.51.00.w, C.51.00.x, C.52.00.w, C.52.00.x, C.52.00.y, C.52.00.z, C.53.00.w, C.53.00.x, C.53.00.y, C.54.00.a, C54.00.w)

In order to ensure uniform reporting among all entities of LCR and NSFR templates, the following question has arisen: which is the currency in which the information dealing with the significant currencies must be reported according to article 415.2?

  • 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_1042
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 29/05/2015

FINREP – reporting of negative interest

How to report the remuneration of assets with a negative interest rate?

  • 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)
  • ID: 2015_1940
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/05/2015

Treatment of specific liabilities - even deduction

What does Article 5(2) of the Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2015/63 mean by the requirement to “evenly deduct” certain liabilities? Could you please provide any examples?

  • 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
  • ID: 2015_1893
  • Topic: Resolution financing arrangements
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 22/05/2015

10 largest exposures to institutions and unregulated financial sector entities

How to count 10 largest exposures to institutions? If a reporting institution has 7 large exposures to institutions, does it have to include into report its next 3 largest (but "non large") exposures (10 alltogether) or 10 largest (but "non large") exposures (17 alltogether)? the same applies to reporting of exposures to unregulated financial sector entities.

  • 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_1351
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Report information on the 20 largest exposures to clients or groups of connected clients

An institution has to report information on its large exposure, on its 10 largest exposures to institutions as well as on the 10 largest exposures to unregulated financial entities according to Article 394 . Furthermore, an IRBA institution also has to report its 20 largest exposures sorted by the non exempted exposure value (resulting from subtracting the amount in column 320 ‘Amounts exempted’ of template LE2 from the amount in column 210 ‘Total’ of that same template, according to annex IX). In case the institution has already reported some of these 20 counterparts as large exposure or in one of the two TOP 10, does this institution: -have not report those who are already reported in the same template ? -have to complete the template with the next ones in order to report a total of 20 largest exposures ?

  • 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_1256
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Large Exposures
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Forborne exposures, Template 19, column 110

Column 110 of Template 19 provides references to Annex V.Part 2.157 and Annex V.Part 2.172(a). Our understanding is that this column requires disclosure of exposures with forbearance measures, that would otherwise be classified as performing but have not met all of the additional exit criteria extended to non-performing exposures with forbearance measures as defined in Annex V.Part 2.157 (e.g., the exposure is no longer classified as defaulted or impaired and there are no past due amounts, but only 8 months have passed since forbearance measures were extended and therefore it should remain to be classified as non-performing). We believe that the intent is to show those exposures that are performing better after the forbearance measures were extended and would be classified as performing if there were no additional exit criteria set out by Annex V.Part 2.157. Can you please confirm if this is a valid interpretation or different information is required to be reported in this column?

  • 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_1031
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Statement of Profit or Loss

1. What has to be included in 350 Other Operating Expenses and what in 380 Other Adminstrative Expenses? It is not clear what the difference between these two data points is, and to what extent we have the option to classify costs in one data point or the other. 2. Is it true that as long as in our judgement we consider a cost an operating cost, it should be included in 350 Other Operating Costs? 3. Are lessee costs, ie operating lease rentals, the only item we should be including or are required to include in data point 380 Other Administrative Expenses?

  • 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_1002
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - FINREP (incl. FB&NPE)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Defintion of “micro, small and medium sized enterprises”

How should be defined the concept of “micro, small and medium sized enterprises” given by the Article 108(a)(i)?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1827
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Inclusion of interim profits in CET1

If a credit institution includes interim profits in Common Equity Tier 1 capital (with the prior permission from the competent authority in accordance with Article 26(2) of the CRR), can the institution decide that in the following interim period it will not apply for a permission concerning interim profits for that (current) interim period, but to use the (previously permitted) amount of interim profits for the previous interim period? For example, a credit institution received a prior permission from the competent authority and included interim profits reported on 30 June in its CET1 capital. When calculating CET1 capital on 30 September, can it choose not to apply for a prior permission from the competent authority to use interim profits reported on 30 September and, instead, include the amount of interim profits reported on 30 June (the same amount it has included in the calculation in the previous quarter)?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1242
  • Topic: Own funds
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Client money

To what extent the deposits linked to securities accounts can be qualified of “client money”?

  • Legal act: Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1826
  • Topic: MREL
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 08/05/2015

Treatment of Sovereign Wealth Funds as non-financial customers or financial customers

If an institution has unsecured deposits from a Sovereign Wealth Fund, are those deposits from financial customers or deposits from non-financial customers?

  • 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
  • ID: 2015_1764
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2015

Deposits received as collateral

Under 423(6) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) should the deposits received as collateral be calculated as net posted collateral in order to treat posted and held cash collateral symmetrically? What if more cash collateral is posted than held? Thus should all other posted level 1 collateral not be reported?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2014_1089
  • Topic: Liquidity risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2015

Exposure to third country institutions and investment firms

What is the treatment for credit risk purposes of an exposure to an investment firm which is established in that third country and which is subject to the supervisory and regulatory requirements applicable to credit institutions in that country?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2015_1968
  • Topic: Credit risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 30/04/2015