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The draft guide indicates how ECB Banking Supervision intends to assess internal models for counterparty credit risk at directly supervised banks. It also aims to provide guidance to these institutions on their self-assessment of the internal model method (IMM) and advanced method for credit valuation adjustment risk (A-CVA), drawing on the approaches already defined by the European Banking Authority (EBA) for other risk types.
The guide should not be construed as going beyond the current applicable EU and national law and therefore is not intended to replace, overrule or affect applicable EU and national law.
Under the Capital Requirements Regulation (CRR), financial institutions can use the IMM for counterparty credit risk and the A-CVA when calculating capital requirements. These internal models focus on over-the-counter derivatives contracts and securities financing transactions, as – unlike with traditional loans – the exposures relating to these products can vary during their term and therefore need calculating in a different way.
The output of these models is one input parameter in the calculation of a bank’s Pillar 1 capital requirements. The guide addresses the supervisory assessment methodology for initial approvals, changes to and extensions of internal models used by banks to calculate capital requirements for counterparty credit risk.
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