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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 137 of 141
Inclusion of incurred (IFRS) CVA in the IRB Provision shortfall calculation
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 159
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-20
Article 416 - Reporting on liquid assets
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-20
Level of application of the new FINREP framework
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-20
Possibility to increase the frequency of reporting with regard to information covered by Draft ITS on Supervisory Reporting.
Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) · Art. 104
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-20
Treatment of non-grandfathered amount of bonds
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 489, 490
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-20
Treatment of existing Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 63, 490
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-13
How shall an institute explain a rating decision?
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 431
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-06
Determination of the appropriate currency to be used for calculating the base for grandfathering and phase-out limits
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 486
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-06
Off-balance sheet items and definition of default
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 178
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-06
Inclusion of year-end profit in Common Equity Tier1 Capital as of the end of first quarter of the following year.
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 26
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-06
Possibility to remove a Tier 1's call options to make the securities Tier 2 compliant
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 489, 490
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-12-06
Risk Measurement and Calculation of Global Exposure and Counterparty Risk for UCITS - exchange-traded derivatives and centrally-cleared OTC transactions
Undertakings for Collective Investment in Transferable Securities Directive (UCITS) Directive 2009/65/EC
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2013-12-01
Uncollateralised stock borrowing (unsecured) Transactions
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416, 416, 423, 423
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
IRB Approach
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 153
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Transfer Restrictions
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 417
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Definition of ‘retail deposit’
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 411
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Cash in CIUs and its impact on CIUs being treated as liquid assets
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 416
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
SA - Retail Classification - EUR1 million limit
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 112, 123
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Grandfathering
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 486
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Grandfathering, cascading and phasing out limits
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 465
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Old-style Tier 1 requalifying as CRR Tier 2 capital
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 63
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Recognised amount as regulatory capital for an Additional Tier 1 with a write-down mechanism
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 54
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Anerkennung der Kapitalrücklage "zugehörig zu" deutschen Vorzugsaktien als Kernkapital - Recognition as Tier 1 equity of share premiums related to German preference shares
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 28
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Grandfathering limit
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 486
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-29
Credit risk approach applicable to exposures to CCPs: standardized approach (SA) or internal rating based approach (IRB)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 107
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-22
Prudential Consolidation of Financial Institutions
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 4
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Scope of application of Articles 341 to 344 of Regulation (EU) No. 575/2013 (CRR)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 341, 342, 343, 344
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Treatment of commodity indices
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 357
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Scope of application of Articles 339 and 340 of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 339, 340
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Scope of calculation of own funds requirements for CVA risk
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 382
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Information to be declared under the concept of "discretionary pension benefits" in the annex of EBA/GL/2012/5 and in annex 2 of EBA/GL/2012/4
Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) · Art. 75, 94
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Exclusion of provisioned counterparties from the CVA capital charge
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 382
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Grandfathering on own funds instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 489
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Grandfathering of Non-Step Tier 1 instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 484
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
First reporting date / reporting period
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 415
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Treatment of non-step Tier 1 hybrids post grandfathering
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 486, 62
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Grandfathering of capital instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 484, 486
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Grandfathering of Tier 1 instruments
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 489
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-15
Capital charge for credit derivatives in the banking book in the position of protection seller
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 273
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
Own funds: Value adjustments for prudent valuation (Additional Value Adjustments)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 34, 105
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
Operational risk
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. Art 95
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
Artikel 115 (3) Zuordnung von Religiongemeinschaften zu Forderungsklasse/ Attribution of religious communities to an exposure class
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 115
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
Use of Core Market Participants Rule
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 227
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
Notifications of agents and subagents of credit institutions in the European Economic Area (EEA)
Directive 2013/36/EU (CRD) · Art. 35
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-11-08
FINREP: Requirement to submit financial information
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99 reporting own funds / financial information
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
Immovable property risk weights under the standardised approach (commercial)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 126
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
Immovable property risk weights under the standardised approach (residential)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. Article 124
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
Applicability of the re-securitisation definition to securitisation positions being subject to tranched credit protection according to Article 264(1) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 249
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
Treatment of Upper Tier 2 instruments under CRR
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 62, 63
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
Preferential risk weight of covered bonds containing securitisation positions of sovereign exposures as cover pool assets
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 129
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2013-10-31
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