cover image: Compliance Table - Guidelines - Based on information supplied by them, the following competent authorities comply or intend to comply with: EBA Guidelines EBA/GL/2014/10 on criteria for the assessment of O-SIIS, published on 16

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Compliance Table - Guidelines - Based on information supplied by them, the following competent authorities comply or intend to comply with: EBA Guidelines EBA/GL/2014/10 on criteria for the assessment of O-SIIS, published on 16

11 Dec 2023

Consequently, as the EBA Guidelines on the identification of O-Slls did not foresee the case of credit institutions acting as CCPs, the ACPR is of the opinion that it is a sound and reasonable practice to apply a treatment very similar to the existing provisions on the specific case of CCPs from Level 1 legal texts, in particular CRR2. [...] The CBI process involves three steps: a) first, the objective measure of the mandatory indicators (TITLE II in EBA guidelines), second, one additional indicator and adding a public housing financing fund to the measurements, and third, the expert judgment of the Financial Stability Committee based on the systemic impact of the financial institutions being assessed as well as review relevance of th. [...] In step one of the process the mandatory indicators are used according to TITLE II of the guidelines and scores calculated as the first step in the process of informing the committee of systemic importance. [...] In order to take account of the specificities of the banking sector in Iceland and the resulting statistical distribution of the scores, also ensuring the homogeneity of the group of O-SII’s designated, the threshold, mandated in the guidelines, is used as a reference but not as a final determinant. [...] In addition to the two main criteria, the Regulation says that the FSA's advice also shall be based on an assessment of the institution's size, the institution's importance in Norway and other countries, the institution's complexity, the institution's role in the financial system infrastructure and to which degree the institution is interconnected with the rest of the financial system.

Authors

Emma Faulkner

Pages
13
Published in
Malta