- asset coverage requirement
means the ratio of assets to liabilities as determined in accordance with the national law of a Member State or a third country for credit enhancement purposes in relation to covered bonds;
- bail-in tool
means a bail-in tool as defined in point (57) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU;
- bucket
means a sub-category of positions within one risk class with a similar risk profile to which a risk weight as defined in Subsection 1 of Section 3 is assigned.
- business day 0
means the business day on which the institution becomes unconditionally committed to accepting a known quantity of securities at an agreed price.3.Institutions shall notify the competent authorities of the application of the process set out in this Article.
- cash transaction
means a transaction in cash, debt instruments or equities, a spot foreign exchange transaction or a spot commodities transaction;
- CIU
means a UCITS as defined in Article 1(2) of Directive 2009/65/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council or an alternative investment fund (AIF) as defined in point (a) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2011/61/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- CMV
means the net market value of all the transactions within a netting set gross of any collateral held or posted where positive and negative market values are netted in computing the CMV;’
- committed credit or liquidity facility
means a credit or liquidity facility that is irrevocable or conditionally revocable.’;
- commodity risk
means the risk of losses arising from movements in commodity prices;
- consolidating supervisor
means a competent authority responsible for the exercise of supervision on a consolidated basis in accordance with Article 111 of Directive 2013/36/EU;’;
- decomposition
means replicating an index by a securitisation of which the underlying exposures in the pool are identical to the single name exposures that compose the index.
- decomposition with a valuation model
means that a single name constituent of a securitisation is valued as the difference between the unconditional value of the securitisation and the conditional value of the securitisation assuming that single name defaults with an LGD of 100 %;
- default risk weight
means the percentage representing the estimated probability of the default of each obligor, according to the creditworthiness of that obligor.
- deposit broker
means a natural person or an undertaking that places deposits from third parties, including retail deposits and corporate deposits but excluding deposits from financial customers, with credit institutions in exchange of a fee;
- derivative contracts
means the derivative contracts listed in Annex II and credit derivatives;
- distributable items
means the amount of the profits at the end of the last financial year plus any profits brought forward and reserves available for that purpose, before distributions to holders of own funds instruments, less any losses brought forward, any profits which are non-distributable pursuant to Union or national law or the institution's by-laws and any sums placed in non-distributable reserves in accordance with national law or the statutes of the institution, in each case with respect to the specific category of own funds instruments to which Union or national law, institutions' by-laws, or statutes relate;
- factoring
means a contractual agreement between a business (the ‘assignor’) and a financial entity (the ‘factor’) in which the assignor assigns or sells its receivables to the factor in exchange for the factor providing the assignor with one or more of the following services with regard to the receivables assigned: for the purposes of Title IV, factoring shall be treated as trade finance;
- fair value of a netting set
means the sum of the fair values of all the transactions included in a netting set.4.Without prejudice to Article 428ah(2), all derivative contracts listed in points 2(a) to (e) of Annex II that involve a full exchange of principal amounts on the same date shall be calculated on a net basis across currencies, including for the purpose of reporting in a currency that is subject to separate reporting in accordance with Article 415(2), even where those transactions are not included in the same netting set that fulfils the requirements set out in Article 429c(1).5.Cash received as collateral to mitigate the exposure of a derivative position shall be treated as such and shall not be treated as deposits to which Chapter 3 applies. 6.
- financial customer
means a customer, including a financial customer belonging to a non-financial corporate group, which performs one or more of the activities listed in Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU as its main business, or which is one of the following:
- financial holding company
means a financial institution, the subsidiaries of which are exclusively or mainly institutions or financial institutions, and which is not a mixed financial holding company;
- financial institution
means an undertaking other than an institution and other than a pure industrial holding company, the principal activity of which is to acquire holdings or to pursue one or more of the activities listed in points 2 to 12 and point 15 of Annex I to Directive 2013/36/EU, including a financial holding company, a mixed financial holding company, a payment institution as defined in point (4) of Article 4 of Directive (EU) 2015/2366 of the European Parliament and of the Council, and an asset management company, but excluding insurance holding companies and mixed-activity insurance holding companies as defined, respectively, in points (f) and (g) of Article 212(1) of Directive 2009/138/EC;
- financial report
means, for the purposes of Part Eight, a financial report within the meaning of Articles 4 and 5 of Directive 2004/109/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council.
- foreign exchange risk
means the risk of losses arising from movements in foreign exchange rates;
- fully guaranteed deposit lending or borrowing transaction
means a fully collateralised money market transaction in which two counterparties exchange deposits and a CCP interposes itself between them to ensure the performance of those counterparties' payment obligations.’;
- gross jump-to-default (gross JTD) amount
means the estimated size of the loss or gain that the default of the obligor would produce for a specific exposure;
- group
means a group of undertakings of which at least one is an institution and which consists of a parent undertaking and its subsidiaries, or of undertakings that are related to each other as set out in Article 22 of Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- hedging set
means a group of transactions within a single netting set for which full or partial offsetting is allowed for determining the potential future exposure under the methods set out in Section 3 or 4 of this Chapter;’;
- higher-level client
means an entity providing clearing services to a lower-level client;
- IM
means any collateral, other than variation margin, collected from or posted to an entity to cover the current and potential future exposure of a transaction or of a portfolio of transactions in the period needed to liquidate those transactions, or to re-hedge their market risk, following the default of the counterparty to the transaction or portfolio of transactions;
- indirect clearing arrangement
means an arrangement that meets the conditions set out in the second subparagraph of Article 4(3) of Regulation (EU) No 648/2012;
- intermediate loan
means a loan that is granted to the borrower for a limited period of time in order to bridge the borrower's financing gaps until the final loan is granted in accordance with the criteria laid down in the sectoral law regulating such transactions.
- internal hedge
means a position that materially offsets the component risk elements between a trading book position and one or more non-trading book positions or between two trading desks;’;
- large institution
means an institution that meets any of the following conditions:
- large subsidiary
means a subsidiary that qualifies as a large institution;
- level 1 assets
means assets of extremely high liquidity and credit quality as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 416(1);
- level 2 assets
means assets of high liquidity and credit quality as referred to in the second subparagraph of Article 416(1) of this Regulation;
- LGD
means the loss given default of the obligor on an instrument issued by that obligor expressed as a share of the notional amount of the instrument;
- liquidity buffer
means the amount of level 1 and level 2 assets that an institution holds in accordance with the delegated act referred to in Article 460(1);
- long exposure
means that the default of an issuer or group of issuers leads to a loss for the institution, regardless of the type of instrument or transaction creating the exposure;
- lower-level client
means an entity accessing the services of a CCP through a higher-level client;
- margin loans
means collateralised loans extended to customers for the purpose of taking leveraged trading positions;
- market risk
means the risk of losses arising from movements in market prices, including in foreign exchange rates or commodity prices;
- material subsidiary
means a subsidiary that on an individual or consolidated basis meets any of the following conditions: for the purpose of determining the material subsidiary, where Article 21b(2) of Directive 2013/36/EU applies, the two intermediate EU parent undertakings shall count as a single subsidiary on the basis of their consolidated situation;
- material term
means any characteristic of the credit derivative that is relevant to the valuation thereof, including the level of subordination, the optionality, the credit events, the underlying reference entity or pool of entities, and the underlying reference obligation or pool of obligations, with the exception of the notional amount and the residual maturity of the credit derivative.
- multi-level client structure
means an indirect clearing arrangement under which clearing services are provided to an institution by an entity which is not a clearing member, but is itself a client of a clearing member or of a higher-level client;
- net jump-to-default (net JTD) amount
means the estimated size of the loss or gain that an institution would incur due to the default of an obligor, after offsetting between gross JTD amounts has taken place,
- net liquidity outflows
means the amount which results from deducting an institution's liquidity inflows from its liquidity outflows;
- NICA
means the sum of the volatility-adjusted value of net collateral received or posted, as applicable, to the netting set other than variation margin;’;
- non-EU G-SII
means a global systemically important banking group or a bank (G-SIBs) that is not a G-SII and that is included in the list of G-SIBs published by the Financial Stability Board, as regularly updated;
- non-listed institution
means an institution that has not issued securities that are admitted to trading on a regulated market of any Member State, within the meaning of point (21) of Article 4(1) of Directive 2014/65/EU;
- non-mandatory overcollateralisation
means any amount of assets which the institution is not obliged to attach to a covered bond issuance by virtue of legal or regulatory requirements, contractual commitments or for reasons of market discipline, including in particular where the assets are provided in excess of the minimum legal, statutory or regulatory overcollateralisation requirement applicable to the covered bonds under the national law of a Member State or a third country;
- one way margin agreement
means a margin agreement under which an institution is required to post variation margin to a counterparty but is not entitled to receive variation margin from that counterparty or vice-versa;’;
- overshooting
means a one-day change in the value of a portfolio composed of all the positions assigned to the trading desk that exceeds the related value-at-risk number calculated on the basis of the institution's alternative internal model in accordance with the following requirements: 2.Institutions shall count daily overshootings on the basis of back-testing of the hypothetical and actual changes in the value of the portfolio composed of all the positions assigned to the trading desk. 3.
- parent credit institution in a Member State
means a parent institution in a Member State that is a credit institution;
- parent institution in a Member State
means an institution in a Member State which has an institution, a financial institution or an ancillary services undertaking as a subsidiary or which holds a participation in an institution, financial institution or ancillary services undertaking, and which is not itself a subsidiary of another institution authorised in the same Member State, or of a financial holding company or mixed financial holding company set up in the same Member State;’;
- parent investment firm in a Member State
means a parent institution in a Member State that is an investment firm;
- PIC
means an undertaking or a trust, the owner or beneficial owner of which is either a natural person or a group of closely related natural persons which does not carry out any other commercial, industrial or professional activity and which was set up with the sole purpose of managing the wealth of the owner or owners, including ancillary activities such as segregating the owners' assets from corporate assets, facilitating the transmission of assets within a family or preventing a split of the assets after the death of a member of the family, provided that those ancillary activities are connected to the main purpose of managing the owners' wealth;
- promotional loan
means a loan granted by a public development credit institution or an entity set up by the central government, regional government or local authority of a Member State, directly or through an intermediate credit institution on a non-competitive, not-for-profit basis, in order to promote the public policy objectives of the central government, regional government or local authority in a Member State.4.Institutions shall not exclude the trade exposures referred to in points (g) and (h) of paragraph 1 of this Article, where the condition set out in the third subparagraph of Article 429(5) is not met. 5.
- public development credit institution
means a credit institution that meets all the following conditions: For the purposes of point (b) of the first subparagraph, public policy objectives may include the provision of financing for promotional or development purposes to specified economic sectors or geographical areas of the relevant Member State.
- regular-way purchase or sale
means a purchase or a sale of a security under contracts for which the terms require delivery of the security within the period established generally by law or convention in the marketplace concerned. 7.
- replication
means that the combination of individual securitisation index tranches are combined to replicate another tranche of the same index series, or to replicate an untranched position in the index series;
- reporting currency
means the currency of the Member State where the head office of the institution is located;
- resolution authority
means a resolution authority as defined in point (18) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU;
- resolution entity
means a resolution entity as defined in point (83a) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU;
- resolution group
means a resolution group as defined in point (83b) of Article 2(1) of Directive 2014/59/EU;
- retail deposit
means a liability to a natural person or to a SME, where the SME would qualify for the retail exposure class under the standardised or IRB approaches for credit risk, or a liability to a company which is eligible for the treatment set out in Article 153(4), and where the aggregate deposits by that SME or company on a group basis do not exceed EUR 1 million;
- risk class
means one of the following seven categories:
- securities financing transaction
means a repurchase transaction, a securities or commodities lending or borrowing transaction, or a margin lending transaction;
- sensitivity
means the relative change in the value of a position, as a result of a change in the value of one of the relevant risk factors of the position, calculated with the institution's pricing model in accordance with Subsection 2 of Section 3;
- short exposure
means that the default of an issuer or group of issuers leads to a gain for the institution, regardless of the type of instrument or transaction creating the exposure;
- small and non-complex institution
means an institution that meets all the following conditions:
- stress
means a sudden or severe deterioration in the solvency or liquidity position of an institution due to changes in market conditions or idiosyncratic factors as a result of which there is a significant risk that the institution becomes unable to meet its commitments as they become due within the next 30 days;
- trade exposure
means a current exposure, including a variation margin due to the clearing member but not yet received, and any potential future exposure of a clearing member or a client, to a CCP arising from contracts and transactions listed in points (a), (b) and (c) of Article 301(1), as well as initial margin;’;
- trading book
means all positions in financial instruments and commodities held by an institution either with trading intent or to hedge positions held with trading intent in accordance with Article 104;’;
- trading desk
means a well-identified group of dealers set up by the institution to jointly manage a portfolio of trading book positions in accordance with a well-defined and consistent business strategy and operating under the same risk management structure;
- unencumbered assets
means assets which are not subject to any legal, contractual, regulatory or other restriction preventing the institution from liquidating, selling, transferring, assigning or, generally, disposing of those assets via an outright sale or a repurchase agreement;
- unfunded contribution to a default fund
means a contribution that an institution that acts as a clearing member has contractually committed to provide to a CCP after the CCP has depleted its default fund to cover the losses it incurred following the default of one or more of its clearing members;
- written credit derivative
means any financial instrument through which an institution effectively provides credit protection including credit default swaps, total return swaps and options where the institution has the obligation to provide credit protection under conditions specified in the options contract.2.In addition to the calculation laid down in Article 429c, institutions shall include in the calculation of the exposure value of written credit derivatives the effective notional amounts referenced in the written credit derivatives reduced by any negative fair value changes that have been incorporated in Tier 1 capital with respect to those written credit derivatives.Institutions shall calculate the effective notional amount of written credit derivatives by adjusting the notional amount of those derivatives to reflect the true exposure of the contracts that are leveraged or otherwise enhanced by the structure of the transaction. 3.