+Article 390 3.

Article 390 3.

For exposures in the trading book, institutions may:

(a) 

offset their long positions and short positions in the same financial instruments issued by a given client, with the net position in each of the different instruments being calculated in accordance with the methods laid down in Chapter 2 of Title IV of Part Three;

(b) 

offset their long positions and short positions in different financial instruments issued by a given client, but only where the financial instrument underlying the short position is junior to the financial instrument underlying the long position or where the underlying instruments are of the same seniority.

For the purposes of points (a) and (b), financial instruments may be allocated into buckets on the basis of different degrees of seniority in order to determine the relative seniority of positions.

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1.2 Identified Requirements

1.3 Related Standards

2. Identified Requirements

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3. Related Standards

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