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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
7,005 Q&As · page 130 of 141
Leverage Ratio, form 46.00
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Validations
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
IIlogical validation in Annex XV
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Wrong member in the taxonomy categorization for ‘Type of risk’ dimension in column 040 of template F 13.01
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Article 416 - Reporting on liquid assets
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Classification of forborne exposure to non-performing
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
ITS on supervisory reporting under the CRR COREP CR GB template
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Recognition of Cashflows for NSFR reporting
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 427
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Validation Rules
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Definition of Accumulated Writte-Offs to be reported in column 110 of Table 7
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Holding in an undertaking that is neither a financial sector entity nor outside the financial sector
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 89
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Assessment criteria of the conditions of forbone exposures that are performing
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
LR: Amout due for secured lending transaction
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 422
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Validations
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Alternative treatment of the exposure measure: Notional amount
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
C 51.00 Liquid assets - reporting of intransferable liquidity surpluses
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 415
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Reporting of collateral swaps
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 415
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-22
Items associated with particular high risk secured with eligible real estate
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 128
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-14
Groups including an investment firm referred to in Article 95(1) of the CRR controlled by a financial holding company or mixed financial holding company
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 98
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-01
Clarification regarding the legal opinion mentioned in Article 305 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 305
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-01
Inflows - Monies due from non-financial customers
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 425
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-08-01
Operational risk - compliance risk
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 4
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Supervisory powers Liquidity
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 412
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Eligible collateral for the purpose of credit risk mitigation
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 197, 198
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Accounting Scope of Consolidation
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Liquidity cash-flows
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 412, 418
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Repo conducted with a non-financial customer
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 425
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Valuation of liquid assets
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 412, 418
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Highly leveraged obligors
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 180
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-25
Definition of a financial institution
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 4
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-18
Application transitional provisions: Deduction half from Tier 1 and half from Tier 2
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 11, 472
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Inclusion of additional value adjustments in the IRB treatment of expected loss
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 159
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Offset of Additional Value Adjustments (‘AVAs’) against Expected Loss (‘EL’) under Article 159
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 159
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Calculation of the threshold deductions (from CET1) during the transitional period
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 467, 469, 470
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Internal Model Method for counterparty credit risk: Determination of the effective expected exposure when the model captures the effect of margining (Article 285(1)(c))
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 284, 285
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Securities borrowing transactions within the LCR - inflows
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 425
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Inflows
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 425
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Large exposure reporting – reporting of central government and natural or legal persons controlled by the central government or interconnected with it
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 4
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-11
Residual maturity of exposures with an undefined maturity
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 119
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Effect on the capital requirement of a guarantee where the right to call is linked to default versus another where it is linked to realised loss
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. Article 215 - Additional requirements for guarantees
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Own funds - Prudential Filters
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 32, 33
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Supervisory reporting of bonds issued by promotional banks
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Treatment of SME-supporting factor in the case of secured exposures.
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 501
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Eligibility of capital instruments for classification as Common Equity Tier 1 instruments when the instruments are supplemented by a contractual obligation of the majority-holder of those instruments to pay compensation to the minority shareholders even in loss years
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 28
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Tier 2 instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 63
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Exemption from deduction of Equity Holdings in an insurance company from CET1
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 471
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Minimum reserve requirement
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 412
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-07-04
Netting of DTAs and DTLs
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 38, 48
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-06-27
Collateral Swaps Scope
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-06-27
Calculation of retail exposures under Article 123(c) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 123
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2014-06-27
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