Article 4 Changes in the institution’s net interest income

1.   Institutions shall reflect in their calculations of the net interest income the common modelling and parametric assumptions set out in Article 3(2), (3) and (4) and (7) to (10). In addition, institutions shall reflect in their calculations of the net interest income the common modelling and parametric assumptions set out in paragraphs 2 to 4 of this Article.

2.   Institutions shall consider in their calculations interest income and interest expenses over a one-year period regardless of the maturity and the accounting treatment of the relevant interest rate sensitive non-trading book instruments.

3.   Institutions shall include in their calculations commercial margins and other spread components.

4.   Institutions shall compute the change in the net interest income under the assumption of a constant balance sheet, where its total size and composition, including on- and off-balance sheet items, shall be maintained by replacing instruments with maturing or repricing cash flows with new instruments that have comparable features with regard to the currency, amount and repricing period of the instruments generating the repricing cash flows. Margins of the new instruments shall be based on the margins from recently bought or sold products with similar characteristics. In the case of instruments with observable market prices recent market spreads shall be used and not historical market spreads.