85. When assessing the issuer’s inability or likely inability in the near future to comply with the …

When assessing the issuer’s inability or likely inability in the near future to comply with the applicable requirements as determined also by the factors above, the competent authority should base its determination also on elements including among other things:

• i. significant adverse developments in the macroeconomic environment that are likely to threaten the issuer’s position as regards own funds, liquidity requirement and/or assets backing the redemption rights of the token holders, including relevant developments in interest rates, market freeze or economic growth; such developments should significantly adversely affect the issuer’s business model, the outlook for its profitability, its liquidity position, its viability and its reserve of assets;
• ii. significant deterioration of market perception of an issuer, for instance due to obstacles to prompt access to the assets backing the redemption rights of token holders, such as deterioration in the solvency profile of the credit institution holding the issuer’s deposits or providing custodial services, or negative volatility of the highly liquid financial instruments in the reserve of assets or the high-quality liquid assets composing the liquidity coverage ratio (LCR) requirement;
• iii. significant deterioration of the market conditions, likely leading to a run on the ART or EMT by the token holders, due to, among other things, any large and/or persistent negative divergence between the market value of the token and the market value of the assets referenced, idiosyncratic shock relating to specific assets referred to by the ART or EMT, increasing and high instability of the crypto market, interconnectedness between the financial system and the crypto activities in issuers that might act as a contagion channel for the crisis (idiosyncratic or market wide), or loss of confidence of the token holders.

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