Article 379
Free deliveries
1.
An institution shall be required to hold own funds, as set out in Table 2, where the following occurs:
(a)
it has paid for securities, foreign currencies or commodities before receiving them or it has delivered securities, foreign currencies or commodities before receiving payment for them;
(b)
in the case of cross-border transactions, one day or more has elapsed since it made that payment or delivery.
Table 2
Capital treatment for free deliveries
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Column 1 |
Column 2 |
Column 3 |
Column 4 |
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Transaction Type |
Up to first contractual payment or delivery leg |
From first contractual payment or delivery leg up to four days after second contractual payment or delivery leg |
From 5 business days post second contractual payment or delivery leg until extinction of the transaction |
|
Free delivery |
No capital charge |
Treat as an exposure |
Treat as an exposure risk weighted at 1 250 % |
2.
In applying a risk weight to free delivery exposures treated according to Column 3 of Table 2, an institution using the Internal Ratings Based approach set out in Part Three, Title II, Chapter 3 may assign PDs to counterparties, for which it has no other non-trading book exposure, on the basis of the counterparty's external rating. Institutions using own estimates of ‘LGDs’ may apply the LGD set out in Article 161(1) to free delivery exposures treated according to Column 3 of Table 2 provided that they apply it to all such exposures. Alternatively, an institution using the Internal Ratings Based approach set out in Part Three, Title II, Chapter 3 may apply the risk weights of the Standardised Approach, as set out in Part Three, Title II, Chapter 2 provided that it applies them to all such exposures or may apply a 100 % risk weight to all such exposures.
If the amount of positive exposure resulting from free delivery transactions is not material, institutions may apply a risk weight of 100 % to these exposures, except where a risk weight of 1 250 % in accordance with Column 4 of Table 2 in paragraph 1 is required.
3.
As an alternative to applying a risk weight of 1 250 % to free delivery exposures according to Column 4 of Table 2 in paragraph 1, institutions may deduct the value transferred plus the current positive exposure of those exposures from Common Equity Tier 1 items in accordance with point (k) of Article 36(1).