Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/1085 of 13 March 2024 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on the assessment methodology under which competent authorities verify an institution’s compliance with the requirements to use internal models for market risk

(e) assess how the institution determines the calibration period referred to in Article 325bn(1), point (c), of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

For the purposes of point (a), competent authorities may, where appropriate, require the institution to provide data used to model the correlation between a sample of issuers selected by competent authorities, and verify whether those data only relate to listed equities and credit spreads.

For the purposes of point (d), competent authorities shall verify whether, where the institution applies the derogation referred to in Article 325bn(3) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, a correlation of 60 business days is used only between equity positions for which that derogation is used, and that the correlation is otherwise measured over a one-year time horizon.

For the purposes of point (e), competent authorities shall verify whether the approach that the institution uses to select the period, including its length, is:

(a) sound;

(b) documented in the institution’s internal policies;

(c) reviewed to account for any changes in the stress period referred to in Article 325bc(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013.

Article 51

Assessment of the hedging recognition

When assessing whether the recognition of hedges in the institution’s internal default risk model complies with Article 325bo of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, competent authorities shall:

(b) review the internal policies of the institution, and verify the criteria envisaged in those internal policies to recognise netting and hedging or diversification effects;

(c) assess whether the monitoring of potential significant basis risk that may arise in the interval between the maturity of an instrument and the one-year time horizon is robust;

When requesting the sample referred to in point (d)(i), competent authorities shall ensure that there is variety in the positions provided, and that, where applicable, both positions that are netted and positions that are not netted are included.

For the purposes of point (b), competent authorities shall verify whether the criteria in the internal policies of the institution ensure that the netting and hedging are efficient, also where a credit or any other event occurs.

For the purposes of point (d), competent authorities shall verify whether:

(a) the institution’s mapping of positions to risk factors ensures that exposures to different obligors are not netted, and that such netting only takes place for positions that relate to the same financial instruments of the same obligor;

(b) either exposures to different obligors are mapped to different risk factors, or there is a basis risk factor to capture the differences in those exposures, and the basis risk between obligors that are constituents of credit indices and other obligors is captured;

(c) for positions in different financial instruments of the same obligor, the analysis performed by the institution to assess whether significant basis risk in the hedging strategies may arise due to different type of products, seniority in the capital structure, internal or external ratings, maturity, or vintage, is robust.

Article 52

Assessment of compliance with particular requirements

When assessing the internal default risk model’s compliance with the requirements laid down in Article 325bp of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, competent authorities shall:

(b) in relation to the requirement to reflect the economic cycle in the internal default risk model as required by Article 325bp(2) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, assess how the modelling of losses given defaults, including stochastic ones, is performed for such losses given defaults to reflect changes in the properties taken by the systematic risk factors;

(d) in relation to the requirement to have an internal default risk model that is consistent with internal risk-management as required by Article 325bp(9) of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013, verify whether the institution has documented the differences between the internal default risk model and the models that the institution uses for its internal risk management for the same scope of positions, and whether the institution is able to explain those differences.

For the purposes of point (a)(i), competent authorities shall assess the rationale provided in the institution’s internal policies for the choice of the systematic risk factors, and their economic interpretation.

For the purposes of point (a)(iii), competent authorities may, where appropriate, verify on a sample of similar issuers that the idiosyncratic risk factors differ.

For the purposes of point (a)(iv), competent authorities may, where appropriate, verify on a sample of issuers, that the mapping is correct.

For the purposes of point (a)(v), competent authorities may, where appropriate and where the analyses performed by the institution do not seem sufficient for the portfolio subject to default risk as it stands, require the institution on a sample of issuers to assess the power of the systematic risk factors chosen by the institution in explaining the drivers of the default of each issuer’s asset.

For the purposes of point (b), competent authorities may, where appropriate, perform statistical analyses on a sample of issuers, including hypothesis testing, to test the dependency of losses given defaults on the systematic risk factors.

CHAPTER 5

FINAL PROVISIONS

Article 53

Entry into force and application

This Regulation shall enter into force on the twentieth day following that of its publication in the Official Journal of the European Union.

Article 18 (1), point (a), as regards the environmental risk, Article 18(1), point (c)(vii), and Article 18(2), point (b)(v), shall apply from 1 January 2025.

Article 21 (1), point (b), shall apply from 1 January 2026.

This Regulation shall be binding in its entirety and directly applicable in all Member States.

Done at Brussels, 13 March 2024.

For the Commission The President Ursula VON DER LEYEN

(1) OJ L 176, 27.6.2013, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2013/575/oj.

(2) Regulation (EU) 2019/876 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2019 amending Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 as regards the leverage ratio, the net stable funding ratio, requirements for own funds and eligible liabilities, counterparty credit risk, market risk, exposures to central counterparties, exposures to collective investment undertakings, large exposures, reporting and disclosure requirements, and Regulation (EU) No 648/2012 (OJ L 150, 7.6.2019, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2019/876/oj).

(3) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2058 of 28 February 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on liquidity horizons for the alternative internal model approach, as referred to in Article 325bd(7) (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 40, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2058/oj).

(4) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2059 of 14 June 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the technical details of back-testing and profit and loss attribution requirements under Articles 325bf and 325bg of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 47, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2059/oj).

(5) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2060 of 14 June 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the criteria for assessing the modellability of risk factors under the internal model approach (IMA) and specifying the frequency of that assessment under Article 325be(3) of that Regulation (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 60, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2060/oj).

(6) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1577 of 20 April 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on the calculation of the own funds requirements for market risk for non-trading book positions subject to foreign exchange risk or commodity risk and the treatment of those positions for the purposes of the regulatory back-testing requirements and the profit and loss attribution requirement under the alternative internal model approach (OJ L 193, 1.8.2023, p. 1, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/1577/oj

(7) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2023/1578 of 20 April 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the requirements for the internal methodology or external sources used under the internal default risk model for estimating default probabilities and losses given default (OJ L 193, 1.8.2023, p. 7, http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2023/1578/oj).

(8) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2024/397 of 20 October 2023 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on the calculation of the stress scenario risk measure (OJ L, 2024/397, 29.1.2024, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2024/397/oj).

(9) Regulation (EU) No 1093/2010 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 November 2010 establishing a European Supervisory Authority (European Banking Authority), amending Decision No 716/2009/EC and repealing Commission Decision 2009/78/EC (OJ L 331, 15.12.2010, p. 12, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg/2010/1093/oj).

(10) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2059 of 14 June 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the technical details of back-testing and profit and loss attribution requirements under Articles 325bf and 325bg of Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 47, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2059/oj).

(11) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2060 of 14 June 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards specifying the criteria for assessing the modellability of risk factors under the internal model approach (IMA) and specifying the frequency of that assessment under Article 325be(3) of that Regulation (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 60, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2060/oj).

(12) Commission Delegated Regulation (EU) 2022/2058 of 28 February 2022 supplementing Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council with regard to regulatory technical standards on liquidity horizons for the alternative internal model approach, as referred to in Article 325bd(7) (OJ L 276, 26.10.2022, p. 40, ELI: http://data.europa.eu/eli/reg_del/2022/2058/oj).