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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 15 of 141
Scope of public offering
MiCA
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2025-01-17
Captive
(EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance)
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision · Art. Annex VI
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Vega general interest rate risk and credit spread risk factors
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 325m
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Seniority categories to use when offsetting the gross JTD amounts of short exposures and long exposures within the DRC calculations for non-securitisations
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 325x
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Basis of calculation for the DRC for non-securitisations and SBM-CSR for non-securitisations – Individual ‘issuers’/‘obligors’ or ‘group of issuers/obligors’?
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 325v
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Basis of calculation for the DRC for non-securitisations and SBM-CSR for non-securitisations - instruments guaranteed by a guarantor
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 325v
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Scope of public offering
Regulation (EU) No 2023/1114 (MiCAR) · Art. 3
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Safeguarding with a credit institition in a third country
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 10
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
PISP payment order cancellation due to fraud prevention reasons
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 80
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-17
Multi-licensed entity capital requirement
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 8
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Exchange rate mark-ups part of 'all charges payable'/'currency conversion charges'
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 45
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Consideration of own funds requirements as a comparable guarantee to the PII
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 5
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Information provided to the payee on individual payment transaction
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 58
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
EMI's application of negative interest rates to its clients
Directive 2009/110/EC (EMD) · Art. 12
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Definition of electronic money
Directive 2009/110/EC (EMD) · Art. 2
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Provision of the "acquiring of payment transactions" payment service in the EU
Directive 2015/2366/EU (PSD2) · Art. 1
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-17
Determination of the amount of eligible receivables from trade debtors as well as fees or commissions receivable within 30 days as liquid assets in accordance with Article 43(3) of the IFR
Regulation (EU) No 2019/2033 (IFR) · Art. 43
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-10
Treatment of deposits pledged as collateral against loans in c66.01
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2025-01-10
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. 84
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-09
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
(EU) No 2015/35 - supplementing Dir 2009/138/EC - taking up & pursuit of the business of Insurance and Reinsurance (SII) · Art. ANNEX IX / ANNEX XXIII/ ANNEX XXIV
EIOPA
Answered 2025-01-09
Permission of AIFMs to delegate portfolio or risk management to non-supervised undertakings established outside of the EU
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Directive 2011/61/EU · Art. Article 20(1)(c)(d)
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2025-01-06
AIFMs safekeeping client money
Alternative Investment Fund Managers Directive (AIFMD) Directive 2011/61/EU · Art. Article 6(4)
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2025-01-06
Change of beneficial ownership
Central Securities Depositories Regulation (CSDR) Regulation (EU) No 909/2014- PTR- CSDR · Art. Article 9
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2025-01-06
Calibration of confidence interval for CCP margin requirements
Regulation 648/2012 - OTC derivatives, central counterparties and trade repositories (EMIR) - CCPs · Art. Art 41 of EMIR 648/2012 and Art 24 of RTS 153/2013
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2025-01-03
FINREP Group Structure Template 40.02
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 99
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
a) Disclosure of Items in Transit balance in FINREP Table 01.01 {F01.01, c0010 (r0020 or r0183 or r0360)} b) EBA_v5013 (Type - Error): [F 05.01, F 01.01] Sum of Loans & Advances across Industry ({{F 05.01, r0080, (c0010, c0020, c0030, c0040, c0050, c0060)}}) Should be equal to Sum of Cash at Central Banks and Loans & Advances in Balance Sheet ({{F 01.01, c0010, (r0030, r0040, r0099, r0130, r0144, r0174, r0178, r0183, r0233, r0237)}})
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. EBA FINREP : ANNEX V REPORTING ON FINANCIAL INFORMATION, Assets (1.1)
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
FINREP reporting of loans secured by mortgage mandates (Belgium)
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 239
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
The asset resulted from the customer´s obligation to reimburse the payment to the bank from the financial guarantee
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
Definition of ‘project finance loans’ for FINREP reporting
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
Definition of SME in Finrep vs COREP under CRR3 Regulation
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 5
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
Loan commitments, financial guarantees and other commitments received in F 9.2
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 430
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
Consistency of Article 447(f) CRR and ITS on public disclosures with the mapping tool for the key metric LCR in KM1
Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (CRR) · Art. 447
EBA Final Q&A
Answered 2024-12-20
Answered 2024-12-18
Transparency on conflicts of interest (Art. 19 IDD)
(EU) No 2016/97 - Insurance Distribution Directive
EIOPA
Answered 2024-12-18
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
Guidelines on own risk and solvency assessment
EIOPA
Answered 2024-12-18
Solvency Capital Requirement (SCR)
(EU) No 2009/138 - Solvency II Directive (Insurance and Reinsurance) · Art. 107
EIOPA
Answered 2024-12-18
Reporting Templates
(EU) 2023/894 - ITS with regard to the templates for the submission of information necessary for supervision
EIOPA
Answered 2024-12-18
Article 3(28) and EU Subcontractors
Regulation (EU) 2022/2554 - The Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA)
ESMA Answer Published
Answered 2024-12-17
Risk Free Rate (RFR)
Risk-Free Interest Rate - Financial market data
EIOPA
Answered 2024-12-16
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