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All regulations Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Directive 2011/61/EU Benchmarks Regulation (BMR) - Regulation 2016/1011 Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014- PTR- CSDR Credit Rating Agencies Regulation (CRAR) Regulation (EC) No 1060/2009 Directive 2002/87/EC (FiCOD) Directive 2009/110/EC (EMD) Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) Directive 2014/17/EU (MCD) Directive 2014/49/EU (DGSD) Directive 2014/59/EU (BRRD) Directive 2014/65/EU - Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (MiFID II) Directive 2014/92/EU (PAD) Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) Directive 2022/2556/EU (DORA Dir) Directive (EU) 2015/849 (AMLD) Directive (EU) 2019/2034 (IFD) EIOPA-BoS/18-114 - Information request towards NCAs regarding provision of occupational pensions information EIOPA-BoS-23-030 - Regular information requests regarding provision of occupational pensions information EMIR ESGR - Regulation (EU) 2024/3005 (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) 2016/2341 - IORP II Directive, Other (EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document (EU) 2017/653 - PRIIPs Delegated Regulation for key information document, (EU) No 1286/2014 - PRIIPs Regulation (EU) 2019/1238 - Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP) (EU) 2019/1238 - Pan-European Personal Pension Product (PEPP), (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD, (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, EIOPA-BoS-23-030 - Regular information requests regarding provision of occupational pensions information (EU) 2019/2088 - SFDR (EU) 2020/852 - Taxonomy Regulation (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD (EU) 2022/2454 - ITS with regard to supervisory reporting of risk concentrations and intra-group transactions (FICOD, (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision (EU) 2022/2554 - Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, (EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, Other (EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision, Revised Guidelines on Contract Boundaries, Guidelines on contract boundaries (EU) 2023/895 - ITS for the disclosure of solvency and financial condition report EU Green Bond Regulation (EU) 2023/2361 (EU) No 1286/2014 - PRIIPs Regulation (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2011 - lists of regional governments & local authorities, exposures to be treated as to central government (EU) No 2015/2013 - standard deviations in relation to health risk equalisation systems (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure (EU) No 2015/2451 - templates and structure of the disclosure of specific information by supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/2451 - templates and structure of the disclosure of specific information by supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/2452 - procedures, formats and templates of the solvency and financial condition report (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2011 - lists of regional governments & local authorities, exposures to be treated as to central government (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2015/2450 - templates for the submission of information to the supervisory authorities, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on application of outwards reinsurance (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on contract boundaries (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on group solvency (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on implementation of the long-term guarantee measures (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on look-through approach (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on methodology for equivalence assessments by national supervisory authorities under Solvency II (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on recognition and valuation of assets and liabilities other than technical provisions (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Other (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions (EU) No 2016/1800 - allocation of Credit Assessments of external CA institutions to objective scale of credit quality steps (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) (EU) No 2017/1469 - standardised presentation format for the insurance product information document (EU) No 2017/1469 - standardised presentation format for the insurance product information document, Guidelines on classification of own funds (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2017/2358 - product oversight and governance requirements for insurance, Preparatory Guidelines on product oversight & governance arrangements by insurance undertakings & insurance distributors, (EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive (EU) No 2017/2359 - info requirements and conduct of business rules applicable European Long-Term Investment Funds Regulation (ELTIF) Regulation (EU) 2015/760 European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012- MDP European Market Infrastructure Regulation (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012- PTR- Derivatives European Social Entrepreneurship Funds Regulation (EuSEF) Regulation (EU) No 346/2013 European Venture Capital Regulation (EuVECA) Regulation (EU) No 345/2013 Guidelines on application of life underwriting risk module Guidelines on application of outwards reinsurance Guidelines on basis risk Guidelines on classification of own funds Guidelines on classification of own funds, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Guidelines on contract boundaries Guidelines on financial stability reporting Guidelines on financial stability reporting, Guidelines on reporting for financial stability purposes Guidelines on group solvency Guidelines on health catastrophe risk sub-module Guidelines on look-through approach Guidelines on loss-absorbing capacity of technical provisions and deferred taxes Guidelines on own risk and solvency assessment Guidelines on recognition and valuation of assets and liabilities other than technical provisions Guidelines on reporting and public disclosure Guidelines on reporting for financial stability purposes Guidelines on ring-fenced funds Guidelines on submission of information to NCAs (Preparatory phase) Guidelines on supervision of branches of third-country insurance undertakings Guidelines on supervisory review process Guidelines on system of governance Guidelines on the Forward looking assessment of own risks Guidelines on treatment of related undertakings, including participations Guidelines on use of internal models Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Investor Protection and Intermediaries Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- MDP Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014 - Investor Protection and Intermediaries Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- Secondary Markets MiCA Other Packaged Retail and Insurance-based Investment Products Regulation (PRIIPS) Regulation (EU) No 1286/2014 PRIIPs Prospectus Regulation 2017/1129 Regulation 2020/1503 - European crowdfunding service providers for business Regulation 2021/23 - recovery and resolution of central counterparties (CCPRRR) Regulation 648/2012 - OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR) - CCPs Regulation (EU) 2015/847 (WTR) (recast) Regulation (EU) 2019/2088 - Sustainable Finance Disclosure Regulation (SFDR) Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) Regulation (EU) 2022/858 - DLT Pilot Regime Regulation (DLTR) Regulation (EU) 2023/1113 (WTR II) Regulation (EU) 2024/886 (IPR) Regulation (EU) No 2017/2402 (SecReg) Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR) Regulation (EU) No 2022/2554 (DORA Reg) Regulation (EU) No 2023/1114 (MiCAR) Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (EMIR) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014 (CSDR) - only RTS 2017/390 Revised Guidelines on Contract Boundaries Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) Revised Guidelines on valuation of technical provisions, (EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII), (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Risk-Free Interest Rate - Credit and currency adjustments Risk-Free Interest Rate - Deep, Liquid and Transparent maturities Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation, Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data Risk-Free Interest Rate - Extrapolation, Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions, Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data Risk-Free Interest Rate - General questions Risk-Free Interest Rate - Matching adjustment Risk-Free Interest Rate - Matching adjustment, (EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA calculations, Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA representative portfolios Risk-Free Interest Rate - VA representative portfolios Securities Financing Transactions Regulation (SFTR) Regulation (EU) 2015/2365- MDP Securitisation Regulation (EU) 2017/2402 SFDR Short Selling Regulation (SSR) Regulation (EU) No 236/2012 Symmetric adjustment of the equity capital charge Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) Directive 2009/65/EC
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Asset encumbrance templates - Some cells are mapped with the same data point of other ones, but not all of them can be reported on a consolidated basis
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 100
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Legal reference to Article 39 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) in row 020 ‘Deferred tax assets that do not rely on future profitability’ in template C 04.00 of Annex II of Regulation (EU) 680/2014 (ITS on supervisory reporting),.
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Validation rule v4134_m
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Validation rule v4574_m
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 415
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Validation Rule v3812_s
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 429
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Deposits reported in P 01.02 and in P 02.01
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Risk weighting under standardised approach of an exposure secured by mortgage on residential property being constructed by the borrower (self-build) during the period of construction
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 125
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Differentiation between specialised lending and sme exposures within exposure class corporates
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
C 04.00 (CA4) form rows 740 to 810 - capital buffer reporting
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Reporting transitional adjustments to RWA in C 05.01
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Original Exposure Pre-Conversion factors
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Obligors for total exposures in template CR IRB 1
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
C 41.00 - Inconsistency between Validations and EBA member/dimension types causes validation v0668_m to fail
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Reporting of positions in closely correlated currencies (CRR Art. 354)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-02-03
Date and time of the request of admission and admission
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Instrument identification code and Underlying instrument code
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Date and time of the request of admission and admission
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Classification of Financial Instruments (CFI) and Financial Instrument Short Name (FISN)
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Request for admission to trading by issuer
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Base Point Spread of the index/benchmark of a floating rate bond
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Instrument identification code and Underlying instrument code
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-02-02
Transactions that should be exempted from, and included in, the calculation
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
ESMA Published Answer Updated
Answered 2017-01-31
Trading venue and co-location
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-31
Level at which the firm must perform the calculation where it is part of a group or operates EU branches
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
ESMA Published Answer Updated
Answered 2017-01-31
Market makers
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- Secondary Markets
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-31
Segment information; Paragraphs 17 to 19 of the APMs Guidelines.
Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Labels used on APMs; Paragraphs 22 and 25 of the APMs Guidelines.
Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Concept of “corresponding previous periods”; Paragraph 37 of the APMs Guidelines.
Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Interim financial reports; Paragraphs 3 and 4 of the APMs Guidelines.
Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Financial measures calculated using exclusively figures stemming from financial statements; Paragraphs 4, 17 to 19 of the APMs Guidelines.
Transparency Directive (TD) Directive 2004/109/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Recommendations on multiple issuers
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Recommendations relating to several financial instruments independently
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Recommendations on a derivative referencing an index
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-27
Capability to perform an impact analysis for 15 consecutive business days for extensions and changes of internal approaches for market risk
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 363
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-27
Price of options granted for free
Market Abuse Regulation (MAR) Regulation (EU) No 596/2014 - Market Intergrity
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2017-01-20
Exclusion of centrally cleared transactions
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 382
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Review and validation of criteria for the use of a reduced number of parameters
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 105
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Calculation of the threshold for using the simplified approach for the determination of AVAs.
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 105
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Meaning of "credit lines" in the context of conversion factors for certain off-balance sheet items
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 166
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Recognition of unfunded credit protection / guarantees under Advanced IRB
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 161
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Application level of materiality threshold for assessing the materiality of extensions and changes to the IMA
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 363
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Reporting of inflows for term deposits with option for early withdrawal
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 425
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Offset of Additional Value Adjustments (“AVA”) against Expected Loss (“EL”) under Article 159
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 110, 159
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-20
Recognition of minorities arising from an intermediate financial holding company
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 81, 84
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-06
Risk weighting under the Standardised Approach for credit risk for an exposure secured by a mortgage on a residential property which is a second home (for instance, a holiday home).
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 125
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-06
Exposure secured by immovable property vs. secured by mortgages on immovable property
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 126, 154, 164
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-06
Risk weight of exposures with QCCPs
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 107, 305
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-06
Eligibility of unconditional Financial Letters of Credit as eligible financial collateral
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 197
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2017-01-06
LEI of the issuer
Markets in Financial Instruments Directive II (MiFID II) Directive 2014/65/EU- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2016-12-20
LEI of the issuer
Markets in Financial Instruments Regulation (MiFIR) Regulation (EU) No 600/2014- MDP
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2016-12-20
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