This chapter describes disclosures accompanying the assessment methodology for G-SIBs and the countercyclical capital buffer.

Effective as of: 15 Dec 2019 | Last update: 15 Dec 2019
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Introduction

75.1

The disclosure requirements set out in this chapter are:

(1)

Template GSIB1 – Disclosure of global systemically important bank (G-SIB) indicators

(2)

Template CCyB1 – Geographical distribution of credit exposures used in the calculation of the bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer requirement

75.2

Template GSIB1 provides users of Pillar 3 data with details of the indicators used to assess how a G-SIB has been determined. National authorities retain the discretion to require G-SIBs to report a more detailed breakdown of the assessment indicators on the Committee’s data hub using the existing template. Those banks that are required by their national authorities to disclose the full breakdown of their indicators, or choose to do so, should include the web link or other relevant reference in their Pillar 3 report to facilitate users’ access to this information.

75.3

Template CCyB1 provides details of the calculation of a bank’s countercyclical capital buffer, including details of the geographical breakdown of the bank’s private sector credit exposures.

Template GSIB1 - Disclosure of G-SIB indicators

Purpose: Provide an overview of the indicators that feed into the Committee's methodology for assessing the systemic importance of global banks.

 

Scope of application: The template is mandatory for banks which in the previous year have either been classified as G-SIBs, have a leverage ratio exposure measure exceeding EUR 200 billion or were included in the assessment sample by the relevant authority based on supervisory judgment (see SCO40).

For G-SIB assessment purposes, the applicable leverage ratio exposure measure definition is contained in the LEV.

For application of this threshold, banks should use the applicable exchange rate information provided on the Basel Committee website at www.bis.org/bcbs/gsib/ . The disclosure itself is made in the bank's own currency.

 

Content: At least the 12 indicators used in the assessment methodology of the G-SIB framework (see SCO40).

 

Frequency: Annual. National authorities may allow banks whose financial year ends on 30 June to report indicator values based on their position as at 31 December (ie interim rather than financial year-end data).

Or in circumstances when banks are required to restate figures to reflect final data submitted to the Committee. This template must also be included in the bank's financial year-end Pillar 3 report. Restatements are only necessary if considered so by the national authority or on voluntary basis.

 

Format: Flexible. The information disclosed must be fully consistent with the data submitted to the relevant supervisory authorities for subsequent remittance to the Committee in the context of its annual data collection exercise for the assessment and identification of G-SIBs.

Where jurisdictions require banks (or banks voluntarily choose) to disclose the full breakdown of the indicators, such disclosure must take place using the template and related instructions that sample banks use to report their data to the Committee's data hub or as required by their local jurisdiction. The template format and its reporting instructions are available on the Basel Committee website (see www.bis.org/bcbs/gsib/reporting_instructions.htm ).

 

Accompanying narrative: Banks should indicate the annual reference date of the information reported as well as the date of first public disclosure. Banks should include a web link to the disclosure of the previous G-SIB assessment exercise.

Banks may supplement the template with a narrative commentary to explain any relevant qualitative characteristic deemed necessary for understanding the quantitative data. This information may include explanations about the use of estimates with a short explanation as regards the method used, mergers or modifications of the legal structure of the entity subjected to the reported data, the bucket to which the bank was allocated and changes in higher loss absorbency requirements, or reference to the Basel Committee website for data on denominators, cutoff scores and buckets.

Regardless of whether Template GSIB1 is included in the annual Pillar 3 report, a bank's annual Pillar 3 report as well as all the interim Pillar 3 reports should include a reference to the website where current and previous disclosures of Template GSIB1 can be found.

 
 

Category

Individual indicator

Values

1

Cross-jurisdictional activity

Cross-jurisdictional claims

 

2

Cross-jurisdictional liabilities

 

3

Size

Total exposures

 

4

Interconnectedness

Intra-financial system assets

 

5

Intra-financial system liabilities

 

6

Securities outstanding

 

7

Substitutability/ Financial

institution infrastructure

Assets under custody

 

8

Payment activity

 

9

Underwritten transactions in debt and equity markets

 

10

Complexity

Notional amount of over-the-counter derivatives

 

11

Level 3 assets

 

12

Trading and available for sale securities

 

Definitions and instructions

The template must be completed according to the instructions and definitions for the corresponding rows in force at the disclosure's reference date, which is based on the Committee's G-SIB identification exercise.

         

Template CCyB1 - Geographical distribution of credit exposures used in the calculation of the bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer requirement

Purpose: Provide an overview of the geographical distribution of private sector credit exposures relevant for the calculation of the bank's countercyclical capital buffer.

Scope of application: The template is mandatory for all banks subject to a countercyclical capital buffer requirement based on the jurisdictions in which they have private sector credit exposures subject to a countercyclical capital buffer requirement compliant with the Basel standards. Only banks with exposures to jurisdictions in which the countercyclical capital buffer rate is higher than zero should disclose this template.

Content: Private sector credit exposures and other relevant inputs necessary for the computation of the bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate.

Frequency: Semiannual.

Format: Flexible. Columns and rows might be added or removed to fit with the domestic implementation of the countercyclical capital buffer and thereby provide information on any variables necessary for its computation. A column or a row may be removed if the information is not relevant to the domestic implementation of the countercyclical capital buffer framework.

Accompanying narrative: For the purposes of the countercyclical capital buffer, banks should use, where possible, exposures on an "ultimate risk" basis. They should disclose the methodology of geographical allocation used, and explain the jurisdictions or types of exposures for which the ultimate risk method is not used as a basis for allocation. The allocation of exposures to jurisdictions should be made taking into consideration the clarifications provided by RBC30. Information about the drivers for changes in the exposure amounts and the applicable jurisdiction-specific rates should be summarised.

 

a

b

c

d

e

Geographical breakdown

Countercyclical capital buffer rate

Exposure values and/or risk-weighted assets (RWA) used in the computation of the countercyclical capital buffer

Bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate

Countercyclical capital buffer amount

Exposure values

RWA

(Home) Country 1

         

Country 2

         

Country 3

         

         

Country N

         

Sum

         

Total

         

Definitions and instructions

Unless otherwise provided for in the domestic implementation of the countercyclical capital buffer framework, private sector credit exposures relevant for the calculation of the countercyclical capital buffer (relevant private sector credit exposures) refer to exposures to private sector counterparties which attract a credit risk capital charge in the banking book, and the risk-weighted equivalent trading book capital charges for specific risk, the incremental risk charge and securitisation. Interbank exposures and exposures to the public sector are excluded, but non-bank financial sector exposures are included.

Country: Country in which the bank has relevant private sector credit exposures, and which has set a countercyclical capital buffer rate greater than zero that was applicable during the reporting period covered by the template.

Sum: Sum of private sector credit exposures or RWA for private sector credit exposures, respectively, in jurisdictions with a non-zero countercyclical capital buffer rate.

Total: Total of private sector credit exposures or RWA for private sector credit exposures, respectively, across all jurisdictions to which the bank is exposed, including jurisdictions with no countercyclical capital buffer rate or with a countercyclical capital buffer rate set at zero, and value of the bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate and resulting countercyclical capital buffer amount.

Countercyclical capital buffer rate: Countercyclical capital buffer rate set by the relevant national authority in the country in question and in force during the period covered by the template or, where applicable, the higher countercyclical capital buffer rate set for the country in question by the home authority of the bank. Countercyclical capital buffer rates that were set by the relevant national authority, but are not yet applicable in the country in question at the disclosure reference date (pre-announced rates) must not be reported.

Total exposure value: If applicable, total private sector credit exposures across all jurisdictions to which the bank is exposed, including jurisdictions with no countercyclical capital buffer rate or with a countercyclical capital buffer rate set at zero.

Total RWA: If applicable, total value of RWA for relevant private sector credit exposures, across all jurisdictions to which the bank is exposed, including jurisdictions with no countercyclical capital buffer rate or with a countercyclical capital buffer rate set at zero.

Bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate: Countercyclical capital buffer that varies between zero and 2.5% or, where appropriate, above 2.5% of total RWA calculated in accordance with RBC30.9 to RBC30.15 as a weighted average of the countercyclical capital buffer rates that are being applied in jurisdictions where the relevant credit exposures of the bank are located and reported in rows 1 to N. This figure (ie the bank-specific countercyclical capital buffer rate) may not be deduced from the figures reported in this template as private sector credit exposures in jurisdictions that do not have a countercyclical capital buffer rate, which form part of the equation for calculating the figure, are not required to be reported in this template.

Countercyclical capital buffer amount: Amount of Common Equity Tier 1 capital held to meet the countercyclical capital buffer requirement determined in accordance with RBC30.9 to RBC30.15.

Linkages across templates

[CCyB1:Total/d] is equal to [KM1:9/a] for the semiannual disclosure of KM1, and [KM1:9/b] for the quarterly disclosure of KM1

[CCyB1:Total/d] is equal to [CC1:66/a] (for all banks) or [TLAC1:30/a] (for G-SIBs)