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Treatment of two-leg derivatives with respect to rate type and currency

What is the expected representation for two-legs derivatives in the templates "BREAKDOWN OF SENSITIVITY ESTIMATES (J 02.00, J 03.00 and J 04.00)" and REPRICING CASH FLOWS (J 05.00, J 06.00 and J 07.00)?

  • 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
  • ID: 2024_7073
  • Topic: Interest Rate Risk for Banking Book (IRRBB)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/09/2024

Breakdown of currencies to be reported

What is the expected breakdown by currencies for the reporting of template J.01.00 and for the reporting of the other J templates [(J 02.00, J 03.00 and J 04.00), (J 05.00, J 06.00 and J 07.00), (J 08.00 and J 09.00) and (J 10.00 and J 11.00)] in the case that for J 01.00 the bank includes other currencies in addition to the minimum “material currencies” as defined in Article 1(3) of Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/856 when reporting the aggregation of “all currencies”? Let us consider, for example, the case of a bank on which on a consolidated level three currencies (EUR, USD, GBP) are identified as “material currencies”, but the bank includes, on a voluntary basis, other currencies (e.g. MXN and BRL) for the calculation of the SOT, as it is considered in the bank’s internal management systems. Must the bank provide the breakdown by currencies for the J templates only for the “material currencies” (EUR, USD, GBP) or as well for the other “non-material currencies” (MXN and BRL)? 

  • 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
  • ID: 2024_7148
  • Topic: Interest Rate Risk for Banking Book (IRRBB)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/09/2024

Revocation of ASPSP's Exemption from the Contingency Mechanism due to Prolonged Service Disruption

In a scenario where an incident lasting more than two consecutive weeks preventing Payment Service Users (PSUs) from initiating their payments through a dedicated interface, considering that the Account Servicing Payment Service Provider (ASPSP) has an exemption from the contingency mechanism under Regulation (EU) 2018/389, and the National Competent Authority (NCA) has been notified about the incident: Should the National Competent Authority (NCA) revoke the ASPSP's exemption from the contingency mechanism?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: EBA/GL/2018/07 - Guidelines on the exemption from the contingency mechanism under Regulation (EU) 2018/389
  • ID: 2024_7103
  • Topic: Other topics
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/09/2024

Criteria for selecting the operations to be included in the calculation of fraud rates for the transaction risk analysis (TRA) exemption

Which of the following would be the correct temporal criterion for selecting the unauthorized transactions to be included in the numerator of the fraud rates calculated for the transactions risk analysis (TRA) exemption? a) the transaction date, i.e., the date on which the transaction was executed regardless of the date on which it is classified as unauthorized or fraudulent b) the registration date, i.e., the date on which the transaction is registered as unauthorized or fraudulent regardless of the date on which it was carried out 

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2018/389 - RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication
  • ID: 2024_6989
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/09/2024

Secure corporate payment processes and protocols and inactivity time period

May the period time of inactivity required by the (EU) 2018/389 - RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication (hereinafter: RTS on SCA & CSC) Article 4 (3) (d) be changed from 5 minutes to 20 minutes if the exemption based on Article 17 of RTS on SCA & CSC has been granted by the competent authority to the Payment service provider?

  • Legal act: Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2018/389 - RTS on strong customer authentication and secure communication
  • ID: 2023_6949
  • Topic: Strong customer authentication and common and secure communication (incl. access)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 27/09/2024

Disclosures in case of lack of label in EPCs

What shall be reported in columns h-n in case local EPCs do not present labels in the form of letters (A-G), but only level of energy efficiency? Shall these columns be left blank or “0” can be disclosed? Is it acceptable that the banks remove these columns from the template and do not disclose them at all? In addition, what shall be reported in this case in columns o and p? Column “o” is named as “Without EPC label of collateral” and it may indicate that the values to be disclosed in this column refer to the information in columns h-n.  

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Regulation (EU) 2022/2453 - ITS on ESG disclosures
  • ID: 2024_7013
  • Topic: Transparency and Pillar 3
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/09/2024

Alignment of total funding between FINREP F01.02 and COREP C67.00

What is the correct approach regarding the alignment between the FINREP F01.02 and COREP C67.00 templates as required by the AMM ITS since (1) the scope of consolidation might be different between the two reports and (2) different netting rules can apply between the two reports?

  • 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
  • ID: 2023_6956
  • Topic: Supervisory reporting - Liquidity (LCR, NSFR, AMM)
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 20/09/2024

Maturity weighting of gross JTD amounts to calculate net JTD amounts

Are the maturity weighting of gross JTD amounts and three months floor of Art. 325x(3) applicable only to gross JTD amounts in cases where no offsetting is possible or are they applicable more generally to all gross JTD amounts?

  • Legal act: Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
  • COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs: Not applicable
  • ID: 2024_7129
  • Topic: Market risk
  • Date of submission:
  • Published as final Q&A: 13/09/2024