After the bi-yearly EBA / ECB stress test was cancelled in the wake of the COVID-19 crisis at the beginning of 2020, it has now become finally clear that the exercise will be brought to an end in 2021. This has already been stated by the EBA on its homepage and was also included in the EBA’s 2021 work program. And also those banks that are part of the ECB’s rather than the EBA’s sample of participants have by now received the information that they are once again required to participate. Hence, it’s time to take again a closer look at the upcoming exercise and to get prepared for potential amendments due to the current economic and regulatory environment.
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Im Kontext des CRR „Quick Fix“, (vgl. dazu Regulatory Blog Beitrag: „CRR „Quick Fix“ mit COVID-19 bezogenen Maßnahmen tritt in Kraft“ vom 03. Juli 2020) der aufgrund der makroökonomischen Auswirkung der Corona Pandemie wesentliche Erleichterungen für Institute erlaubt, wird der seit dem 14. Oktober finale RTS zur Ausnahme bilanziell aktivierter Software vom Kapitalabzug für immaterielle Vermögensgegenstände bereits ab dem 1. Tag nach Veröffentlichung im EU Amtsblatt anwendbar sein. In Abhängigkeit der Höhe der bilanziell aktivierten Software kann dies ein wichtiger Baustein für das Kapitalmanagement sein.
On 23 July 2020 the EBA has published a consultation paper on the treatment of indirect exposures arising from derivatives and credit derivatives in the large exposure regime (Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the determination of indirect exposures to underlying clients of derivatives and credit default derivatives under Article 390(9) CRR2 (EBA/CP/2020/14)). The publication marks the next important milestone in specifying the new provision entailed in Art. 390(5) CRR2 which will enter into force in July 2021. This new CRR2 provision already requires institutions to take into account those risks towards the issuer of an underlying reference asset that it has entered into only indirectly by closing a derivative (e.g. option, forward) or credit derivative (e.g. CDS) contract. The accompanying EBA standard is now intended to define a concrete methodology specifying the determination of such indirect exposures. Based on the present consultation paper it is to be expected that implementing the methodology proposed will entail various challenges both from a technical as well as an operational perspective.
Am 23. Juli 2020 hat die European Banking Authority (EBA) das Konsultationspapier zur Behandlung von indirekten Risikopositionen aus Derivaten und Kreditderivaten im Großkreditregime veröffentlicht (Draft Regulatory Technical Standards on the determination of indirect exposures to underlying clients of derivatives and credit default derivatives under Article 390(9) CRR2 (EBA/CP/2020/14)) und damit den nächsten wichtigen Meilenstein zur Konkretisierung der Neuregelung in Art. 390 Abs. 5 der CRR2 erreicht. Über die CRR2 wurde zunächst klargestellt, dass auch solche Risiken in der Großkreditmeldung und ‑überwachung zu berücksichtigen sind, die ein Institut nur indirekt über den Abschluss eines Derivategeschäfts (bspw. Option, Forward) oder eines Kreditderivats (bspw. CDS) gegenüber dem Schuldner eines Referenzaktivums eingegangen ist. Der dazugehörige EBA-Standard soll die konkrete Methodik zur Ermittlung der indirekten Risikopositionswerte vorgeben, wobei das nun vorliegende Konsultationspapier bereits erahnen lässt, dass die Umsetzung diverse fachliche und praktische Herausforderungen mit sich bringen wird.
To shorten the waiting time until our regulatory IRB-Homeschooling starts, we would like to give you some insights into our experiences around validation exercise, we gained with various national and international credit institutions.
Introduction:
As institutions are developing models for an increasing scope of risk management and decision making, concurrently, the number of models has been rising dramatically (i.e. models for capital provisioning and stress testing, pricing, strategic planning as well as asset liquidity purposes). More complex models are being developed with even more advanced analytics techniques (i.e. machine learning) to achieve higher performance. Big data and advanced analytics are opening new opportunities for more sophisticated models.
There are several reasons for this phenomenon; banks have started using more data sources about the retail lending activities, and new regulatory changes such as IFRS9 have introduced the use of new models what has not been in the bank’s agenda some ten years ago.
Mit dem hier betrachteten Entwurf (RTS on indirect subscription of MREL instruments within groups (EBA/CP/2020/18)) definiert die Europäische Bankenaufsichtsbehörde (EBA) Methoden, um sicherzustellen, dass indirekt von der Abwicklungseinheit gezeichnete Instrumente die intendierte Wirkung der Abwicklungsstrategie nicht einschränken.
Die Konsultation läuft bis zum 27. Oktober 2020.
Due to the great success of our new webinar homeschooling format, we are now offering a new IRB Homeschooling webinar series!
In the recent years a number of new regulatory requirements brought significant challenges to the IRB risk parameter model development. In parallel to the changing of the regulatory setting, the ECB conducted a large number of on-site inspections (under the TRIM program) – where banks’ IRB models and parameters were subject to an intensive and rigorous scrutiny -, during which a relevant number of findings were identified across the euro zone.
In den vergangenen Wochen hat die EBA vier wesentliche Änderungen zu den aufsichtsrechtlichen Melde- und Offenlegungsanforderungen veröffentlicht, die die Institute in unterschiedlichen Zeiträumen erfüllen müssen.
Unser Beitrag gibt Ihnen einen kurzen Überblick über die relevanten Inhalte der EBA-Veröffentlichungen und den daraus resultierenden Änderungen und unterstützt Sie bei der Identifizierung der für Sie relevanten Aspekte.
Am 8. Juli 2020 hat der Baseler Ausschuss für Bankenaufsicht (BCBS) den finalen Standard zum Baseler Rahmenwerk zur Bestimmung der aufsichtsrechtlichen CVA Risk Capital Charge (BCBS 507) veröffentlicht. Damit erfolgt eine erneute Überarbeitung des Basel IV CVA-Rahmenwerks, welches zunächst im Dezember 2017 zusammen mit den Regelungen zum KSA, IRB und OpRisk unter Basel IV finalisiert wurde (siehe Blogbeitrag Finalisierung von Basel III oder Basel IV: Die nächste Generation der risikogewichteten Aktiva – Teil II: CVA, operationelle Risiken und Floor-Regelungen).
After the great success of our German Basel IV Homeschooling series in June/July 2020 we now proudly present the English version of our Basel IV webinar taking place between 15 September and 08 October 2020. As it is currently not possible to offer any personal events we decided to modify the existing format of our very successful and popular CRR II/CRR III (Basel IV) Academy and provide you with all our expert knowledge from our Global Basel IV initiative within a homeschooling series.
Benefit from the unique opportunity to become a Basel IV expert in eight modules. Each module lasts 90 minutes and can be attended independently from each other to meet your specific needs.
The series will give you a comprehensive overview on all the relevant Basel IV changes and will help you to prepare for the upcoming challenges out of CRR II/CRR III and Basel IV. Our Basel IV experts will inform you on all relevant changes to various topics like credit risk standardised approach, internal rating based approach, FRTB, operational risk etc. The modules are structured in a way to make sure there is plenty of time for answering your questions and discussing the relevant changes.
We are looking forward to your participation!
Registration is possible under the following link: https://www.pwc-events.com/basel-iv-academy