- aggregate CVA
means the sum of the CVAs calculated using the regulatory CVA model for the counterparties referred to in paragraph 1, first subparagraph.
- aggregated gross loss
means the sum of all gross losses linked to the same operational risk event over one or multiple financial years;
- aggregated net loss
means the sum of all net losses linked to the same operational risk event over one or multiple financial years;
- ancillary services undertaking
means an undertaking the principal activity of which, whether provided to undertakings inside the group or to clients outside the group, consists of any of the following:
- appropriate adjustment
means the impact on risk parameter estimates resulting from the application of methodologies within the estimation of risk parameters to correct the identified deficiencies in data and in estimation methods, and to account for changes to underwriting standards, risk appetite, collection and recovery policies and any other source of additional uncertainty, to the extent possible in order to avoid biases in risk parameter estimates;
- asset-referenced token
means an asset-referenced token as defined in Article 3(1), point (6), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114;
- cash assimilated instrument
means a certificate of deposit, a bond, including a covered bond, or any other non-subordinated instrument, which has been issued by a lending institution, for which that lending institution has already received full payment and which shall be unconditionally reimbursed by the institution at its nominal value;’
- CCF
means the ratio of the undrawn amount of a commitment from a single facility that could be drawn from that single facility from a certain point in time before default and therefore outstanding at default to the undrawn amount of the commitment from that facility, the extent of the commitment being determined by the advised limit, unless the unadvised limit is higher;’
- commercial immovable property
means any immovable property that is not residential property;
- commitment
means any contractual arrangement that an institution offers to a client, and is accepted by that client, to extend credit, purchase assets or issue credit substitutes;
- control
means the relationship between a parent undertaking and a subsidiary, as described in Article 22 of Directive 2013/34/EU, or in the accounting standards to which an institution is subject under Regulation (EC) No 1606/2002 of the European Parliament and of the Council, or a similar relationship between any natural or legal person and an undertaking;
- corporate exposure
means an exposure assigned to any of the exposure classes referred to in Article 147(2), point (c)(i), (ii) or (iii);
- credit exposure
means any on- or off -balance-sheet item, that results, or may result, in a credit obligation;
- credit facility
means a credit exposure arising from a contract or a set of contracts between an obligor and an institution;
- credit obligation
means any obligation arising from a credit contract, including principal, accrued interest and fees, owed by an obligor;
- crypto-asset
means a crypto-asset as defined in Article 3(1), point (5), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114 of the European Parliament and of the Council that is not a central bank digital currency;
- crypto-asset exposure
means an asset or an off-balance-sheet item related to a crypto-asset that gives rise to credit risk, counterparty credit risk, market risk, operational risk or liquidity risk;
- crypto-asset service
means a crypto-asset service as defined in Article 3(1), point (16), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114.
- e-money token
means an electronic money token or e-money token as defined in Article 3(1), point (7), of Regulation (EU) 2023/1114;
- EL
means the ratio, related to a single facility, of the amount expected to be lost on an exposure from any of the following:
- environmental risk
means the risk of any negative financial impact on an institution stemming from the current or prospective impact of environmental factors on that institution’s counterparties or invested assets, including factors related to the transition towards the objectives set out in Article 9 of Regulation (EU) 2020/852 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- exposure class
means any of the exposure classes referred to in Article 147(2), point (a), point (aa)(i) or (ii), point (b), point (c)(i), (ii) or (iii), point (d)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv), point (e), (ea), (f) or (g);
- exposure secured by a mortgage on commercial immovable property
means an exposure secured by a commercial immovable property;
- exposure secured by a mortgage on residential property
means an exposure secured by residential property or an exposure regarded as such in accordance with Article 108(4);
- exposure secured by immovable property collateral
means an exposure secured by a residential property or commercial immovable property or an exposure regarded as such in accordance with Article 108(4);’
- exposures subject to the impact of environmental or social factors
means exposures hindering the ambition of the Union to achieve its regulatory objectives relating to ESG factors, in a way that could have a negative financial impact on institutions in the Union;
- FCP
means a technique of credit risk mitigation where the reduction of the credit risk on the exposure of an institution is derived from the right of that institution, in the event of the default of the obligor or the credit facility, or on the occurrence of other specified credit events relating to the obligor, to liquidate, or to obtain transfer or appropriation of, or to retain certain assets or amounts, or to reduce the amount of the exposure to, or to replace it with, the amount of the difference between the amount of the exposure and the amount of a claim on the institution;
- financial holding company
means an undertaking that meets all of the following conditions: The competent authority may decide that an entity does not qualify as a financial holding company even if one of the indicators referred to in the first paragraph, points (i) to (iv), is met, where the competent authority considers that the relevant indicator does not convey a fair and true view of the main activities and risks of the group.
- financial institution
means an undertaking that meets both of the following conditions:
- fossil fuel sector entity
means a company, enterprise or undertaking statistically classified as having its principal economic activity in the coal, oil or gas sector of economic activities, as set out in Annex XXXIX, Template 3, to Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2021/637 and as identified by reference to the statistical classification of economic activities (NACE Revision 2) codes listed in Annex I, Sections B, C, D and G, to Regulation (EC) No 1893/2006 of the European Parliament and of the Council;
- gold bullion
means gold in the form of a commodity, including gold bars, ingots and coins, commonly accepted by the bullion market, where liquid markets for bullion exist, and the value of which is determined by the value of the gold content, defined by purity and mass, rather than by its interest to numismatists;’
- governance risk
means the risk of any negative financial impact on an institution stemming from the current or prospective impact of governance factors on that institution’s counterparties or invested assets;
- grouped losses
means all operational losses caused by a common underlying trigger or root cause that could be grouped into one operational risk event.
- Implicit government support
means that the central government, regional government or local authority would act to prevent creditors of the institution from incurring losses in the event of the institution’s default or distress.’;
- indirect holding
means any exposure to an intermediate entity that has an exposure to capital instruments issued by a financial sector entity or to liabilities issued by an institution where, in the event the capital instruments issued by the financial sector entity or the liabilities issued by the institution were permanently written off, the loss that the institution would incur as a result would not be materially different from the loss the institution would incur from a direct holding of those capital instruments issued by the financial sector entity or of those liabilities issued by the institution;’
- investment holding company
means an investment holding company as defined in Article 4(1), point (23), of Regulation (EU) 2019/2033;’
- large corporate
means any corporate undertaking having consolidated annual sales of more than EUR 500 million or belonging to a group where the total annual sales for the consolidated group is more than EUR 500 million;’
- large regulated financial sector entity
means a financial sector entity which meets all of the following conditions:
- legal risk
means the risk of loss, including, expenses, fines, penalties or punitive damages, which an institution might incur as a consequence of events that result in legal proceedings, including the following:
- LGD
means the ratio of the loss on an exposure related to a single facility due to the default of an obligor or, where applicable, of a credit facility to the amount outstanding at default or at a given reference date after the date of default, and, in the context of dilution risk, the loss given dilution meaning the ratio of the loss on an exposure related to a purchased receivable due to dilution, to the amount outstanding of the purchased receivable;
- margin of conservatism
means an add-on incorporated in risk parameter estimates to account for the expected range of estimation errors stemming from identified deficiencies in data, methods, models, and changes to underwriting standards, risk appetite, collection and recovery policies and any other source of additional uncertainty, as well as from general estimation error;
- model risk
means the risk of loss resulting from decisions that are principally based on the output of internal models, due to errors in the design, development, parameter estimation, implementation, use or monitoring of such models, including the following:
- non-ADC exposure
means any exposure secured by one or more residential properties or commercial immovable properties that is not an ADC exposure;’
- non-IPRE exposure
means any exposure secured by one or more residential properties or commercial immovable properties that is not an IPRE exposure;
- one-year default rate
means the ratio between the number of obligors or, where the definition of default is applied at credit facility level pursuant to Article 178(1), second subparagraph, credit facilities in respect of which a default is considered to have occurred during a period that starts from one year prior to a date of observation T, and the number of obligors, or where the definition of default is applied at credit facility level pursuant to Article 178(1), second subparagraph, credit facilities assigned to this grade or pool one year prior to that date of observation T;’
- operational risk
means the risk of loss resulting from inadequate or failed internal processes, people and systems or from external events, including, but not limited to, legal risk, model risk or information and communication technology (ICT) risk, but excluding strategic and reputational risk;’
- operational risk event
means any event linked to an operational risk which generates a loss or multiple losses, within one or multiple financial years;
- parent institution in a Member State
means an institution in a Member State which has an institution or a financial institution as a subsidiary, or which holds a participation in an institution or financial institution, 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 undertaking
means an undertaking that controls, within the meaning of point (37), one or more undertakings;
- participation
means a participating interest as defined in Article 2, point (2), of Directive 2013/34/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council, or the ownership, direct or indirect, of 20 % or more of the voting rights or capital of an undertaking;
- PD
means the probability of default of an obligor or, where applicable, of a credit facility over a one-year period, and, in the context of dilution risk, the probability of dilution over a one-year period;
- property value
means the value of a residential property or commercial immovable property determined in accordance with Article 229(1);’
- protection-provider-RW-floor
means the risk weight applicable to a comparable, direct exposure to the protection provider;
- pure industrial holding company
means an undertaking that meets all of the following conditions:
- regional governments, local authorities and public sector entities exposure
means an exposure assigned to any of the exposure classes referred to in Article 147(2), point (aa)(i) or (ii);’
- regular-way purchase or sale
means a purchase or a sale of a financial asset under contracts for which the terms require delivery of the financial asset within the period established generally by law or convention in the marketplace concerned.’;
- regulated financial sector entity
means a financial sector entity meeting the condition set out in Article 142(1), point (4)(b).’;
- residential property
means any of the following:
- retail exposure
means an exposure assigned to any of the exposure classes referred to in Article 147(2), point (d)(i), (ii), (iii) or (iv);
- revolving exposure
means any exposure whereby the borrower’s outstanding balance is permitted to fluctuate based on its decisions to borrow and repay, up to an agreed limit;
- risk class
means any of the following categories:
- shadow banking entity
means an entity that carries out banking activities outside the regulated framework;
- SME
means a company, enterprise or undertaking which, according to its most recent consolidated accounts, has an annual turnover not exceeding EUR 50000000;
- social risk
means the risk of any negative financial impact on an institution stemming from the current or prospective impact of social factors on its counterparties or invested assets;
- specialised debt restructurer
means an institution that, during the preceding financial year, complied with all of the following conditions on both an individual and on a consolidated basis: The specialised debt restructurer shall notify the competent authority, without delay, if one or more of the conditions set out in the second subparagraph are no longer met.
- subsidiary
means an undertaking that is controlled, within the meaning of point (37), by another undertaking;
- substitution of risk parameters approach under A-IRB
means the substitution, in accordance with Article 236a, of both the PD and LGD risk parameters of the underlying exposure with the corresponding PD and LGD that would be assigned under the IRB approach using own estimates of LGD to a comparable direct exposure to the protection provider.’
- synthetic holding
means an investment by an institution in a financial instrument the value of which is directly linked to the value of the capital instruments issued by a financial sector entity or to the value of the liabilities issued by an institution;’
- third-party undertaking
means an undertaking that provides auditing or consulting services to institutions and that has staff with sufficient skills in the area of market risk. 6.
- tokenised traditional asset
means a type of crypto-asset that represents a traditional asset, including an e-money token;
- trading desk
means a well-identified group of dealers established by the institution in accordance with Article 104b(1) to jointly manage a portfolio of trading book positions, or the non-trading book positions referred to in paragraphs (5) and (6) of that Article, in accordance with a well-defined and consistent business strategy and operating under the same risk management structure;’
- traditional asset
means any asset other than a crypto-asset, including:
- transactor exposure
means any revolving exposure that has at least 12 months of repayment history and that is one of the following:
- UFCP
means a technique of credit risk mitigation where the reduction of the credit risk on the exposure of an institution is derived from the obligation of a third party to pay an amount in the event of the default of the obligor or the credit facility, or the occurrence of other specified credit events;
- unconditional guarantee
means a guarantee where the credit protection contract does not contain any clause the fulfilment of which is outside the direct control of the lending institution and that could prevent the guarantor from being obliged to pay out in a timely manner pursuant to the qualifying default of the obligor or to the non-payment by the original obligor.
- unconditionally cancellable commitment
means any commitment the terms of which permit the institution to cancel that commitment to the full extent allowable under consumer protection and related legal acts, where applicable, at any time without prior notice to the obligor or that effectively provide for automatic cancellation due to a deterioration in a borrower’s creditworthiness.’
- unregulated financial sector entity
means a financial sector entity that does not fulfil the condition set out in point (4)(b);’