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27 February 2017

EU Standards On Benchmarking Portfolio Assessments Published

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On February 3, 2017, a Commission Delegated Regulation in the form of Regulatory Technical Standards for benchmarking portfolio assessment standards and assessment-sharing procedures...
European Union Finance and Banking

On February 3, 2017, a Commission Delegated Regulation in the form of Regulatory Technical Standards for benchmarking portfolio assessment standards and assessment-sharing procedures was published in the Official Journal of the European Union. The RTS supplement the Capital Requirements Directive. The CRD requires that national regulators monitor the range of risk-weighted exposure amounts or own funds requirements (except as regards operation risk) for the exposures or those relating to transactions in benchmark portfolios resulting from the internal approaches adopted by firms. Regulators are also required to assess, at least annually, the quality of the relevant approaches adopted by firms. The European Banking Authority is required to assist regulators in their assessments. The RTS set out the standards for the assessment by national regulators and procedures for sharing of those assessments with other relevant EU national regulators and with the EBA. The RTS enter into force on February 23, 2017 and will apply directly across the EU.

The RTS is available at: http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/PDF/?uri=CELEX:32017R0180&from=EN.

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