CHAPTER 4 Large exposures, own funds requirements, leverage and the Basel I Floor

Article 494c

By way of derogation from Article 270, an originator institution may calculate the risk-weighted exposure amounts of a senior securitisation position in accordance with Article 260, 262 or 264 where both the following conditions are met:

Article 494d

By way of derogation from Article 149, an institution may from 9 July 2024 until 10 July 2027, revert to less sophisticated approaches for one or more of the exposure classes referred to in Article 147(2), where all of the following conditions are met:

Article 495e

By way of derogation from Article 138, point (g), competent authorities may allow institutions to continue using an ECAI credit assessment in relation to an institution which incorporates assumptions of implicit government support until 31 December 2029.

Article 495f

By way of derogation from Article 229(1), points (a) to (d), for exposures secured by residential property or commercial immovable property granted before 1 January 2025, institutions may continue to value residential property or commercial immovable property at or less than the market value, or in those Member States that have provided for rigorous criteria for the assessment of the mortgage lending value in statutory or regulatory provisions, the mortgage lending value of that property, until a review of the property value is required in accordance with Article 208(3), or 31 December 2027, whichever is earlier.

Article 495g

By way of derogation from Articles 183(1) and 213(1), a guarantee that can be cancelled in the event of fraud by the obligor or the extent of credit protection of which can be diminished in such event, shall be considered to meet the requirements referred to in Article 183(1), point (d), and in Article 213(1), point (c), where the guarantee was provided by an entity referred to in Article 214(2), point (a), no later than 31 December 2024.

Article 495h

By way of derogation from Article 325az(2), point (d), institutions may use, until 1 January 2026, the alternative internal model approach to calculate their own funds requirements for market risk for trading desks that do not meet the requirements laid down in Article 325bg.

Article 498

Until 26 June 2021, the provisions on own funds requirements as set out in this Regulation shall not apply to investment firms the main business of which consists exclusively of the provision of investment services or activities in relation to the financial instruments set out in points (5), (6), (7), (9), (10) and (11) of Section C of Annex I to Directive 2014/65/EU and to which Directive 2004/39/EC did not apply on 31 December 2006.

Article 500c

By way of derogation from Article 325bf, competent authorities may, in exceptional circumstances and in individual cases, permit institutions to exclude the overshootings evidenced by the institution’s back-testing on hypothetical or actual changes from the calculation of the addend set out in Article 325bf, provided that those overshootings do not result from deficiencies in the internal model and provided that they occurred between 1 January 2020 and 31 December 2021.

Article 501b

By way of derogation from Article 430, during the period between the date of application of the relevant provisions of this Regulation and the date of the first remittance of reports specified in the implementing technical standards referred to in that Article, a competent authority may waive the requirement to report information in the format specified in the templates contained in the implementing act referred to in Article 430(7) where those templates have not been updated to reflect the provisions of this Regulation.