- Question ID
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2020_5179
- Legal act
- Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD)
- Topic
- Liquidity risk
- Article
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84
- COM Delegated or Implementing Acts/RTS/ITS/GLs/Recommendations
- EBA/GL/2018/02 - Guidelines on the management of interest rate risk arising from non-trading book activities
- Article/Paragraph
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Paragraph 115 lit. (l)
- Type of submitter
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Competent authority
- Subject matter
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Treatment of interest rate book positions denominated in foreign currency.
- Question
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I. According with paragraph 115 (l) of EBA Guideline 2018/02 should minor positions be included or excluded? II. When deciding whether a position is below or above 5% of total non-trading book financial assets or liabilities which value has to be used for the calculation (e.g. book, face or market value)?
- Background on the question
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Paragraph 115 (l) of EBA Guideline 2018/02 states that, “Institutions should calculate the change in EVE at least for each currency where the assets or liabilities denominated in that currency amount to 5% or more of the total non-trading book financial assets (excluding tangible assets) or liabilities, or less than 5% if the sum of assets or liabilities included in the calculation is lower than 90% of total non-trading book financial assets (excluding tangible assets) or liabilities (material positions).” There are two possible interpretations of this paragraph: 1) Include minor positions in a foreign currency (<5%) in the outlier test and calculate the change in EVE for these positions using the interest rate curve and shift of the domestic currency. As a result, only the currency specific calculation of shock scenarios due to annex III is waived, but all minor positions are reflected in the EVE calculation. 2) Exclude minor positions from the outlier test altogether. What was the intention? When deciding whether a position is below or above 5% of total non-trading book financial assets or liabilities, it unclear which value has to be used for the calculation (e.g. book, face or market value). This question would be even more relevant, if minor positions are completely excluded (question I, option 2).
- Submission date
- Rejected publishing date
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- Rationale for rejection
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The question has been rejected because the legal basis it refers to has been amended and the issue it raises has been clarified in Article 1(3) of the RTS specifying supervisory shock scenarios, common modelling and parametric assumptions and what constitutes a large decline for the calculation of the economic value of equity and of the net interest income in accordance with Article 98(5a) of Directive 2013/36/EU and paragraph 91 of the Guidelines issued on the basis of Article 84 (6) of Directive 2013/36/EU specifying criteria for the management and mitigation of the identification, evaluation, risks arising from potential changes in interest rates credit spread risk, of and of the assessment and monitoring of institutions’ nontrading book activities.
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- Status
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Rejected question