+Title 4 Business model analysis
---+4.1 General considerations
------+69. This title specifies the criteria for the assessment of the business model and strategy of the …
------+70. Without undermining the responsibility of the investment firm’s management body for running and …
------+71. Competent authorities should use the outcome of the BMA to support the assessment of all other …
------+72. Competent authorities should also use the BMA to support the identification of the investment …
------+73. In addition, competent authorities should use the BMA to assess prudential implications of …
------+74. Competent authorities should undertake the following steps as part of the BMA in a …
------+75. For category 3 investment firms, where the scale and complexity of an investment firm’s …
------+76. To conduct the BMA, competent authorities may use the following sources of quantitative and …
---+4.2 Preliminary assessment
------+77. Competent authorities should analyse the investment firm’s main activities, geographies and …
------+78. For this purpose, competent authorities should consider a range of relevant metrics at the …
------+79. Competent authorities should use this preliminary assessment to: a. determine the materiality …
---+4.3 Identifying the areas of focus for the BMA
------+80. Competent authorities should determine the focus of the BMA. They should focus on the business …
---+4.4 Assessing the business environment
------+81. To form a view on the plausibility of an investment firm’s strategic assumptions, competent …
---+4.5 Analysis of the current business model
------+82. To understand the means and methods used by an investment firm to operate and generate profits …
------+83. Competent authorities should undertake both a static and trend analysis of key quantitative …
------+84. Areas for analysis by competent authorities may include: a. profit and loss: competent …
------+85. Competent authorities should undertake an analysis of qualitative features of the investment …
------+86. Areas for analysis by competent authorities may include: a. key external dependencies …
---+4.6 Analysis of the strategy
------+87. Competent authorities should undertake a quantitative and qualitative forward-looking analysis …
------+88. Areas for analysis by competent authorities may include: a. overall strategy: competent …
---+4.7 Assessing business model viability
------+89. Having conducted the analyses covered in Sections 4.4 and 4.5, competent authorities should …
------+90. Competent authorities may assess the level of returns against the following criteria: a. return …
---+4.8 Assessing the sustainability of the investment firm’s strategy
------+91. Having conducted the analyses covered in Sections 4.4 to 4.6, competent authorities should …
------+92. In particular, competent authorities may assess the sustainability of the investment firm’s …
------+93. For non-complex investment firms and where financial projections are not available or not …
---+4.9 Identification of key vulnerabilities
------+94. Having conducted the BMA, competent authorities should assess the key vulnerabilities to which …
------+95. Following the above assessment, competent authorities should form a view on the viability of …
---+4.10 Summary of findings and scoring
------+96. Based on the assessment of the viability and sustainability of the business model, competent …
------+Score Supervisory view Considerations

Title 4 Business model analysis

Title 4 Business model analysis

1. Overview

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Summary Regulation
4.1 General considerations

4.1 General considerations

4.2 Preliminary assessment

4.2 Preliminary assessment

4.3 Identifying the areas of focus for the BMA

4.3 Identifying the areas of focus for the BMA

4.4 Assessing the business environment

4.4 Assessing the business environment

4.5 Analysis of the current business model

4.5 Analysis of the current business model

4.6 Analysis of the strategy

4.6 Analysis of the strategy

4.7 Assessing business model viability

4.7 Assessing business model viability

4.8 Assessing the sustainability of the investment firm’s strategy

4.8 Assessing the sustainability of the investment firm’s strategy

4.9 Identification of key vulnerabilities

4.9 Identification of key vulnerabilities

4.10 Summary of findings and scoring

4.10 Summary of findings and scoring

1.1 References

1.2 Identified Requirements

1.3 Related Standards

2. Identified Requirements

Requirements
Source Requirement

3. Related Standards

Standards
Source Requirement
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