Prudential Regulation Authority Rulebook

1.

The total exposures to a group of connected clients shall be calculated by adding together the exposures to individual clients in that group.

2.

The overall exposures to individual clients shall be calculated by adding the exposures in the trading book and the exposures in the non-trading book.

3.

For exposures in the trading book, institutions may:

1. (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;
2. (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.

4.

Institutions shall calculate the exposure values of the derivative contracts listed in Annex II of the CRR and of credit derivative contracts directly entered into with a client in accordance with one of the methods set out in Sections 3, 4 and 5 of Chapter 6 of Title II of Part Three, as applicable. The exposure value for securities financing transactions shall be calculated in accordance with the methods referred to in Section 4 of Chapter 4 of Title II of Part Three, as applicable. Exposure resulting from the transactions referred to in Articles 378, 379 and 380 shall be calculated in the manner laid down in those Articles.

When calculating the exposure value for the contracts referred to in the first subparagraph, where those contracts are allocated to the trading book, institutions shall also comply with the principles set out in Article 299.

By way of derogation from the first subparagraph, institutions with permission to use the method referred to in Section 6 of Chapter 6 of Title II of Part Three may use that method for calculating the exposure value for securities financing transactions.

5.

Institutions shall add to the total exposure to a client the exposures arising from derivative contracts listed in Annex II of the CRR and credit derivative contracts, where the contract was not directly entered into with that client but the underlying debt or equity instrument was issued by that client.

6.

Exposures shall not include any of the following:

2. (a) in the case of foreign exchange transactions, exposures incurred in the ordinary course of settlement during the two business days following payment;
3. (b) in the case of transactions for the purchase or sale of securities, exposures incurred in the ordinary course of settlement during the five business days following payment or delivery of the securities, whichever is the earlier;
4. (c) in the case of the provision of money transmission including the execution of payment services, clearing and settlement in any currency and correspondent banking or financial instruments clearing, settlement and custody services to clients, delayed receipts in funding and other exposures arising from client activity which do not last longer than the following business day;
5. (d) in the case of the provision of money transmission including the execution of payment services, clearing and settlement in any currency and correspondent banking, intra-day exposures to institutions providing those services;
6. (e) exposures deducted from Common Equity Tier 1 items or Additional Tier 1 items in accordance with Articles 36 and 56 or any other deduction from those items that reduces the solvency ratio.

7.

To determine the overall exposure to a client or a group of connected clients, in respect of clients to which the institution has exposures through transactions referred to in points (m) and (o) of Article 112 or through other transactions where there is an exposure to underlying assets, an institution shall assess its underlying exposures taking into account the economic substance of the structure of the transaction and the risks inherent in the structure of the transaction itself, in order to determine whether it constitutes an additional exposure.

8.

[Note: Provision left blank. Rules for determining the overall exposure to a client or a group of connected clients corresponding to Delegated Regulation 2014/1187 are set out in Chapter 5 of this Part]

9.

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[Note: This rule corresponds to Article 390 of the CRR as it applied immediately before revocation by the Treasury.]