Disclosure (Pillar 3)

Part

BIPRU Prudential sourcebook for Banks, Building Societies and Investment Firms

Chapter

Disclosure (Pillar 3)

Printed on: 28/11/2024

Rulebook at: 01/08/2011

BIPRU 11

Disclosure (Pillar 3)

BIPRU 11.1

Application and purpose

01/01/2007

Application

BIPRU 11.1.1

BIPRU 11 applies to a BIPRU firm.

01/01/2007

Purpose

BIPRU 11.1.2

The purpose of BIPRU 11 is to implement:

(a) Article 68(3);
(b) Article 72;
(c) Articles 145 to 149; and
(d) Annex XII;

of the Banking Consolidation Directive; and
(2)

(a) Article 2, in part;
(b) Point 3 of Article 23, in part; and
(c) Article 39;

of the Capital Adequacy Directive.

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.2

Basis of disclosures

01/01/2007

Disclosure on an individual basis

BIPRU 11.2.1

The following must comply with the obligations laid down in BIPRU 11.3 on an individual basis:

(1) a firm which is neither a parent undertaking nor a subsidiary undertaking;
(2) a firm which is excluded from a UK consolidation group or non-EEA sub-group pursuant to BIPRU 8.5; and
[Note: BCD Article 68(3)]
(3) a firm which is part of a group which has been granted an investment firm consolidation waiver under BIPRU 8.4;
[Note: CAD. Article 23]

01/01/2007

EEA parent institutions

BIPRU 11.2.2

A firm which is an EEA parent institution must comply with the obligations laid down in BIPRU 11.3 on the basis of its consolidated financial situation.

[Note: BCD Article 72(1)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.2.3

A firm which is a significant subsidiary of an EEA parent institution must disclose the information specified in BIPRU 11.4.5 R on an individual or sub-consolidated basis.

01/01/2007

Firms controlled by an EEA parent financial holding company

BIPRU 11.2.4

A firm controlled by an EEA parent financial holding company must comply with the obligations laid down in BIPRU 11.3 on the basis of the consolidated financial situation of that EEA parent financial holding company.

[Note: BCD Article 72(2)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.2.5

A firm which is a significant subsidiary of an EEA parent financial holding company must disclose the information specified in BIPRU 11.4.5 R on an individual or sub-consolidated basis.

01/01/2007

Waiver: Comparable disclosures provided on a consolidated basis by a parent undertaking established in a third country

BIPRU 11.2.6

A firm which is included within comparable disclosures provided on a consolidated basis by a parent undertaking whose head office is not in an EEA State may apply for a waiver from the relevant disclosure requirements in BIPRU 11.2.2 R - BIPRU 11.2.5 R. The FSA's approach to granting waivers is set out in the Supervision manual (see SUP 8).

[Note: BCD Article 72(3)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.2.7

A firm applying for a waiver from one or more of the disclosure requirements in BIPRU 11.2.2 R - BIPRU 11.2.5 R will need to:

(1) satisfy the FSA that it is included within comparable disclosures provided on a consolidated basis by a parent undertaking whose head office is not in an EEA State; and
(2) notify the FSA of the location where the comparable disclosures are provided.

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.3

Disclosures: Information to be disclosed; Frequency, media and location of disclosures; Verification

01/01/2007

Information to be disclosed

BIPRU 11.3.1

A firm must publicly disclose the information laid down in BIPRU 11.5 subject to the provisions laid down in BIPRU 11.3.5 R to BIPRU 11.3.7 R.

[Note: BCD Article 145(1), CAD Article 39]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.3.2

(1) A firm which has an IRB permission must publicly disclose the information laid down in BIPRU 11.6.1 R to BIPRU 11.6.4 R.
(2) A firm which recognises credit risk mitigation in accordance with BIPRU 5 must publicly disclose the information laid down in BIPRU 11.6.5 R.
(3) A firm using the advanced measurement approach for the calculation of its operational risk capital requirement must publicly disclose the information laid down in BIPRU 11.6.6 R.

[Note: BCD Article 145(2), CAD Article 39]

01/01/2007

Disclosure policy

BIPRU 11.3.3

A firm must adopt a formal policy to comply with the disclosure requirements laid down in BIPRU 11.3.1 R and BIPRU 11.3.2 R and have policies for assessing the appropriateness of its disclosures, including their verification and frequency.

[Note: BCD Article 145(3)]

01/01/2007

Rating decisions

BIPRU 11.3.4

A firm must, if requested, explain its rating decisions to SMEs and other corporate applicants for loans, providing an explanation in writing when asked. The administrative costs of the explanation have to be at an appropriate rate to the size of the loan.

[Note: BCD Article 145(4)]

01/01/2007

Exemption from disclosure: Materiality

BIPRU 11.3.5

A firm may omit one or more of the disclosures listed in BIPRU 11.5 if the information provided by such disclosures is not, in the light of the criterion specified in BIPRU 11.4.1 R, regarded as material.

[Note: BCD Article 146(1)]

01/01/2007

Exemption from disclosure: Proprietary or confidential information

BIPRU 11.3.6

A firm may omit one or more items of information included in the disclosures listed in BIPRU 11.5 and BIPRU 11.6 if those items include information which, in the light of the criteria specified in BIPRU 11.4.2 R and BIPRU 11.4.3 R, is regarded as proprietary or confidential.

[Note: BCD Article 146(2)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.3.7

In the exceptional cases referred to in BIPRU 11.3.6 R, a firm must:

(1) state in its disclosures:

(a) the fact that the specific items of information are not disclosed; and
(b) the reason for non-disclosure; and

(2) publish more general information about the subject matter of the disclosure requirement, except where these are to be classified as secret or confidential under the criteria set out in BIPRU 11.4.2 R and BIPRU 11.4.3 R.

[Note: BCD Article 146(3)]

01/01/2007

Frequency of publication

BIPRU 11.3.8

A firm must:

(1) publish the disclosures required under BIPRU 11.3.1 R to BIPRU 11.3.5 R on an annual basis at a minimum;
(2) publish disclosures as soon as practicable.

[Note: BCD Article 147(1)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.3.9

A firm must also determine whether more frequent publication than is provided for in BIPRU 11.3.8 R is necessary in the light of the criteria set out in BIPRU 11.4.4 R.

[Note: BCD Article 147(2)]

01/01/2007

Media and location of publication

BIPRU 11.3.10

(1) A firm may determine the appropriate medium, location and means of verification to comply effectively with the disclosure requirements laid down in BIPRU 11.3.1 R to BIPRU 11.3.4 R.
(2) To the degree feasible, a firm must provide all disclosures in one medium or location.
(3) Equivalent disclosures made by a firm under accounting, listing or other requirements may be deemed to constitute compliance with BIPRU 11.3.1 R to BIPRU 11.3.4 R.
(4) If disclosures are not included in the financial statements, a firm must indicate where they can be found.

[Note: BCD Article 148]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.4

Technical criteria on disclosure: General criteria

01/01/2007

Criterion for materiality

BIPRU 11.4.1

A firm must regard information as material in disclosures if its omission or misstatement could change or influence the assessment or decision of a user relying on that information for the purpose of making economic decisions.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 1 point 1]

01/01/2007

Criteria: Proprietary or confidential information

BIPRU 11.4.2

(1) A firm must regard information as proprietary information if sharing that information with the public would undermine its competitive position.
(2) Proprietary information may include information on products or systems which, if shared with competitors, would render a firm's investments therein less valuable.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 1 point 2]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.4.3

A firm must regard information as confidential if there are obligations to customers or other counterparty relationships binding the firm to confidentiality.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 1 point 3]

01/01/2007

Criteria: Frequency of publication

BIPRU 11.4.4

(1) A firm must assess the need to publish some or all disclosures more frequently than annually in the light of the relevant characteristics of its business such as:

(a) scale of operations;
(b) range of activities;
(c) presence in different countries;
(d) involvement in different financial sectors;
(e) participation in international financial markets; and
(f) participation in payment, settlement and clearing systems.

(2) In making its assessment under (1) a firm must pay particular attention to the possible need for more frequent disclosure of:

(a) items of information laid down in BIPRU 11.5.3 R (2) and BIPRU 11.5.3 R (5), and BIPRU 11.5.4 R (2) - BIPRU 11.5.4 R (5);
(b) information on risk exposure and other items prone to rapid change.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 1 point 4]

01/01/2007

Disclosures: Significant subsidiaries

BIPRU 11.4.5

A firm which is a significant subsidiary of:

(1) an EEA parent institution; or
(2) an EEA parent financial holding company;

must disclose the information specified in BIPRU 11.5.3 R to BIPRU 11.5.4 R on an individual or sub-consolidated basis.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 1 point 5]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.5

Technical criteria on disclosure: General requirements

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Risk management objectives and policies

BIPRU 11.5.1

A firm must disclose its risk management objectives and policies for each separate category of risk, including the risks referred to under BIPRU 11.5.1 R to BIPRU 11.5.17 R. These disclosures must include:

(1) the strategies and processes to manage those risks;
(2) the structure and organisation of the relevant risk management function or other appropriate arrangements;
(3) the scope and nature of risk reporting and measurement systems; and
(4) the policies for hedging and mitigating risk, and the strategies and processes for monitoring the continuing effectiveness of hedges and mitigants.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 1]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Scope of application of directive requirements

BIPRU 11.5.2

A firm must disclose the following information regarding the scope of application of the requirements of the Banking Consolidation Directive:

(1) the name of the firm which is the subject of the disclosures;
(2) an outline of the differences in the basis of consolidation for accounting and prudential purposes, with a brief description of the entities that are:

(a) fully consolidated;
(b) proportionally consolidated;
(c) deducted from capital resources;
(d) neither consolidated nor deducted;

(3) any current or foreseen material practical or legal impediment to the prompt transfer of capital resources or repayment of liabilities among the parent undertaking and its subsidiary undertakings;
(4) the aggregate amount by which the actual capital resources are less than the required minimum in all subsidiary undertakings not included in the consolidation, and the name or names of such subsidiary undertakings; and
(5) if applicable, the circumstance of making use of the provisions laid down in BIPRU 2.1 (Solo consolidation waiver).

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 2]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Capital resources

BIPRU 11.5.3

A firm must disclose the following information regarding its capital resources:

(1) summary information on the terms and conditions of the main features of all capital resources items and components thereof, including:

(a) hybrid capital;
(b) capital instruments which provide an incentive for the firm to redeem them; and
(c) capital instruments which the firm treats as tier one capital under GENPRU TP8A;

(2) tier one capital resources , with separate disclosure of:

(a) all positive items and deductions;
(b) the overall amount of hybrid capital, with specification of those instruments treated as tier one capital under GENPRU TP 8A.1; and
(c) the overall amount of capital instruments that provide for an incentive to redeem them, with specification of those instruments treated as tier one capital under GENPRU TP 8A.1;

(3) the total amount (for the purposes of (3), the total amount must be stated gross of deductions) of:

(a) tier two capital resources plus any innovative tier one capital resources; and
(b) tier three capital resources;

(4) deductions from tier one capital resources and tier two capital resources, with separate disclosure of items referred to in GENPRU 2.2.236 R; and
(5) total capital resources, net of deductions in GENPRU 2.2 and limits laid down in GENPRU 2.2.25 R to GENPRU 2.2.30 R and GENPRU 2.2.42 R to GENPRU 2.2.50 R.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 3]

31/12/2010

Disclosure: Compliance with BIPRU 3, BIPRU 4, BIPRU 6, BIPRU 7, BIPRU 10 and the overall Pillar 2 rule

BIPRU 11.5.4

A firm must disclose the following information regarding compliance with BIPRU 3, BIPRU 4, BIPRU 6, BIPRU 7, BIPRU 10 and the overall Pillar 2 rule:

(1) a summary of the firm's approach to assessing the adequacy of its internal capital to support current and future activities;
(2) for a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the standardised approach to credit risk, 8% of the risk weighted exposure amounts for each of the standardised credit risk exposure classes;
(3) for a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the IRB approach, 8% of the risk weighted exposure amounts for each of the IRB exposure classes;
[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 4 (part)]
(4) the firm's minimum capital requirements for the following:

(a) in respect of its trading-book business, its:

(i) interest rate PRR;
(ii) equity PRR;
(iii) option PRR;
(iv) collective investment schemes PRR;
(v) counterparty risk capital component;
(vi) concentration risk capital component; and

(b) in respect of all of its business activities, its:

(i) commodity PRR; and
(ii) foreign currency PRR;

(5) its operational risk capital requirement calculated in accordance with the basic indicator approach, the standardised approach and the advanced measurement approach and disclosed separately.
[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 4(part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.5.5

For retail exposures, the requirement under BIPRU 11.5.4 R (3) applies to each of the following categories:

(1) exposures to retail SMEs;
(2) retail exposures secured by real estate collateral;
(3) qualifying revolving retail exposures; and
(4) other retail exposures.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 4(part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.5.6

For equity exposures, the requirement under BIPRU 11.5.4 R (3) applies to:

(1) each of the approaches ( the simple risk weight approach, the PD/LGD approach and the internal models approach) provided for in BIPRU 4.7.5 R to BIPRU 4.7.6 R, BIPRU 4.7.9 R to BIPRU 4.7.11 R, BIPRU 4.7.14 R to BIPRU 4.7.16 R, BIPRU 4.7.24 R to BIPRU 4.7.25 R;
(2) exchange traded exposures, private equity exposures in sufficiently diversified portfolios, and other exposures;
(3) exposures subject to supervisory transition regarding capital requirements; and
(4) exposures subject to grandfathering provisions regarding capital requirements.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 4(part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.5.7

A firm must disclose the following information regarding its exposure to counterparty credit risk:

(1) a discussion of the methodology used to assign internal capital and credit limits for counterparty credit exposures;
(2) a discussion of policies for securing collateral and establishing credit reserves;
(3) a discussion of policies with respect to wrong-way risk exposures;
(4) a discussion of the impact of the amount of collateral the firm would have to provide given a downgrade in its credit rating;
(5) gross positive fair value of contracts, netting benefits, netted current credit exposure, collateral held and 'net derivatives credit exposure', where 'net derivatives credit exposure' is the credit exposure on derivatives transactions after considering both the benefits from legally enforceable netting agreements and collateral arrangements;
(6) measures for exposure value under the CCR mark to market method, the CCR standardised method or the CCR internal model method, whichever is applicable;
(7) the notional value of credit derivative hedges, and the distribution of current credit exposure by types of credit exposure;
(8) credit derivative transactions (notional), segregated between use for the firm's own credit portfolio, as well as in its intermediation activities, including the distribution of the credit derivatives products used, broken down further by protection bought and sold within each product group; and
(9) the estimate of alpha (α) if the firm's CCR internal model method permission permits it to estimate α.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 5]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Credit risk and dilution risk

BIPRU 11.5.8

A firm must disclose the following information regarding its exposure to credit risk and dilution risk:

(1) the definitions for accounting purposes of past due and impaired;
(2) a description of the approaches and methods adopted for determining value adjustments and provisions;
(3) the total amount of exposures after accounting offsets and without taking into account the effects of credit risk mitigation, and the average amount of the exposures over the period broken down by different types of exposure classes;
(4) the geographic distribution of the exposures, broken down in significant areas by material exposure classes, and further detailed if appropriate;
(5) the distribution of the exposures by industry or counterparty type, broken down by exposure classes, and further detailed if appropriate;
(6) the residual maturity breakdown of all the exposures, broken down by exposure classes, and further detailed if appropriate;
(7) by significant industry or counterparty type, the amount of:

(a) impaired exposures and past due exposures, provided separately;
(b) value adjustments and provisions; and
(c) charges for value adjustments during the period;

(8) the amount of the impaired exposures and past due exposures, provided separately, broken down by the significant geographical areas including, if practical, the amounts of value adjustments and provisions related to each geographical area;
(9) the reconciliation of changes in the value adjustments and provisions for impaired exposures, shown separately; and
(10) value adjustments and recoveries recorded directly to the income statement must be disclosed separately.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 6 (part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.5.9

The information to be disclosed under BIPRU 11.5.8 R (9) must comprise:

(1) a description of the type of value adjustments and provisions;
(2) the opening balances;
(3) the amounts taken against the provisions during the period;
(4) the amounts set aside or reversed for estimated probable losses on exposures during the period, any other adjustments including those determined by exchange rate differences, business combinations, acquisitions and disposals of subsidiary undertakings, and transfers between provisions; and
(5) the closing balances.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 6 (part)]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Firms calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the standardised approach

BIPRU 11.5.10

For a firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the standardised approach to credit risk, the following information must be disclosed for each of the standardised credit risk exposure classes;

(1) the names of the nominated ECAIs and export credit agencies and the reasons for any changes;
(2) the standardised credit risk exposure classes for which each ECAI or export credit agency is used;
(3) a description of the process used to transfer the issuer and issue credit assessments onto items not included in the trading book;
(4) the association of the external rating of each nominated ECAI or export credit agency with the credit quality steps prescribed in BIPRU 3, taking into account that this information need not be disclosed if the firm complies with the credit quality assessment scale; and
(5) the exposure values and the exposure values after credit risk mitigation associated with each credit quality step prescribed in BIPRU 3, as well as those deducted from capital resources.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 7]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Firms calculating risk weighted exposure amounts using the IRB approach

BIPRU 11.5.11

A firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts for specialised lending exposures in accordance with BIPRU 4.5.8 R to BIPRU 4.5.10 R or equity exposures in accordance with BIPRU 4.7.9 R to BIPRU 4.7.10 R (the simple risk weight approach) must disclose the exposures assigned:

(1) to each category of the table in BIPRU 4.5.9 R; or
(2) to each risk weight mentioned in BIPRU 4.7.9 R to BIPRU 4.7.10 R.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 8]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Market risk

BIPRU 11.5.12

A firm must disclose its capital resources requirements separately for each risk referred to in (1) and (2).

(1) in respect of its trading-book business, its:

(a) interest rate PRR;
(b) equity PRR;
(c) option PRR;
(d) collective investment schemes PRR;
(e) counterparty risk capital component; and
(f) concentration risk capital component; and

(2) in respect of all of its business activities, its:

(a) commodity PRR; and
(b) foreign currency PRR

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 9]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Use of VaR model for calculation of market risk capital requirement

BIPRU 11.5.13

The following information must be disclosed by a firm which calculates its market risk capital requirement using a VaR model:

(1) for each sub-portfolio covered:

(a) the characteristics of the models used;
(b) a description of stress testing applied to the sub-portfolio;
(c) a description of the approaches used for back-testing and validating the accuracy and consistency of the internal models and modelling processes;
(d) the highest, the lowest and the mean of the daily value-at-risk measures over the reporting period and the value-at-risk measure as per the end of the period;
(e) a comparison of the daily end-of-day value-at-risk measures to the one-day changes of the portfolio's value by the end of the subsequent business day together with an analysis of any important overshootings during the reporting period;

(2) the scope of the firm's VaR model permission; and
(3) a description of the extent and methodologies for compliance with the requirements set out in GENPRU 1.3.13 R (2) and GENPRU 1.3.13 R (3) and GENPRU 1.3.14 R to GENPRU 1.3.34 R.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 10]

31/12/2010

Disclosure: Operational risk

BIPRU 11.5.14

The following information must be disclosed by a firm on operational risk:

(1) the approaches for the assessment of the operational risk capital requirement that the firm qualifies for; and
(2) if the firm uses the advanced measurement approach:

(a) a description of the methodology used in the advanced measurement approach, including a discussion of relevant internal and external factors considered in the firm's measurement approach; and
(b) in the case of partial use, the scope and coverage of the different methodologies used.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 11]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Non-trading book exposures in equities

BIPRU 11.5.15

A firm must disclose the following information regarding the exposures in equities not included in the trading book:

(1) the differentiation between exposures based on their objectives, including for capital gains relationship and strategic reasons, and an overview of the accounting techniques and valuation methodologies used, including key assumptions and practices affecting valuation and any significant changes in these practices;
(2) the balance sheet value, the fair value and, for those exchange-traded, a comparison to the market price where it is materially different from the fair value;
(3) the types, nature and amounts of exchange-traded exposures, private equity exposures in sufficiently diversified portfolios, and other exposures;
(4) the cumulative realised gains or losses arising from sales and liquidations in the period; and
(5) the total unrealised gains or losses, the total latent revaluation gains or losses, and any of these amounts included in tier one, tier two or tier three capital resources.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 12]

01/01/2007

Disclosures: Exposures to interest rate risk in the non-trading book

BIPRU 11.5.16

A firm must disclose the following information on its exposure to interest rate risk on positions not included in the trading book:

(1) the nature of the interest rate risk and the key assumptions (including assumptions regarding loan prepayments and behaviour of non-maturity deposits), and frequency of measurement of the interest rate risk; and
(2) the variation in earnings, economic value or other relevant measure used by the management for upward and downward rate shocks according to management's method for measuring the interest rate risk, broken down by currency.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 13]

01/01/2007

Disclosures: Securitisation

BIPRU 11.5.17

A firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with BIPRU 9 must disclose the following information:

(1) a description of the firm's objectives in relation to securitisation activity;
(2) the roles played by the firm in the securitisation process;
(3) an indication of the extent of the firm's involvement in each of them;
(4) the approaches to calculating risk weighted exposure amounts that the firm follows for its securitisation activities;
(5) a summary of the firm's accounting policies for securitisation activities, including:

(a) whether the transactions are treated as sales or financings;
(b) the recognition of gains on sales;
(c) the key assumptions for valuing retained interests; and
(d) the treatment of synthetic securitisations if this is not covered by other accounting policies;

(6) the names of the ECAIs used for securitisations and the types of exposure for which each agency is used;
(7) the total outstanding amount of exposures securitised by the firm and subject to the securitisation framework (broken down into traditional and synthetic), by exposure type;
(8) for exposures securitised by the firm and subject to the securitisation framework, a breakdown by exposure type of the amount of impaired and past due exposures securitised, and the losses recognised by the firm during the period;
(9) the aggregate amount of securitisation positions retained or purchased, broken down by exposure type;
(10) the aggregate amount of securitisation positions retained or purchased:

(a) broken down into a meaningful number of risk weight bands; and
(b) with separate disclosure of positions that have been risk weighted at 1250% or deducted;

(11) the aggregate outstanding amount of securitisated revolving exposures segregated by the originator's interest and the investors' interest; and
(12) a summary of the securitisation activity in the period, including the amount of exposures securitised (by exposure type), and recognised gain or loss on sale by exposure type.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 2 point 14]

01/01/2007

Disclosures: remuneration

BIPRU 11.5.18

A firm must disclose the following information, including regular, at least annual, updates, regarding its remuneration policy and practices for those categories of staff whose professional activities have a material impact on its risk profile:

(1) information concerning the decision-making process used for determining the remuneration policy, including if applicable, information about the composition and the mandate of a remuneration committee, the external consultant whose services have been used for the determination of the remuneration policy and the role of the relevant stakeholders;
(2) information on the link between pay and performance;
(3) the most important design characteristics of the remuneration system, including information on the criteria used for performance measurement and risk adjustment, deferral policy and vesting criteria;
(4) information on the performance criteria on which the entitlement to shares, options or variable components of remuneration is based;
(5) the main parameters and rationale for any variable component scheme and any other non-cash benefits;
(6) aggregate quantitative information on remuneration, broken down by business area;
(7) aggregate quantitative information on remuneration, broken down by senior management and members of staff whose actions have a material impact on the risk profile of the firm, indicating the following:

(a) the amounts of remuneration for the financial year, split into fixed and variable remuneration, and the number of beneficiaries;
(b) the amounts and forms of variable remuneration, split into cash, shares, share-linked instruments and other types;
(c) the amounts of outstanding deferred remuneration, split into vested and unvested portions;
(d) the amounts of deferred remuneration awarded during the financial year, paid out and reduced through performance adjustments;
(e) new sign-on and severance payments made during the financial year, and the number of beneficiaries of those payments;
(f) the amounts of severance payments awarded during the financial year, number of beneficiaries and highest such award to a single person.

[Note: Paragraph 15 of Annex XII to the Banking Consolidation Directive.]

01/01/2011

BIPRU 11.5.19

The FSA would normally consider the requirements to publish disclosures in accordance with BIPRU 11.3.8 R and 11.3.9 R in respect of BIPRU 11.5 as a whole to meet the requirement in paragraph 15 of Annex XII to the Banking Consolidation Directive to publish "regular, at least annual, updates" (as implemented in BIPRU 11.5.18 R).

01/01/2011

BIPRU 11.5.20

(1) A firm that is significant in terms of its size, internal organisation and the nature, scope and the complexity of its activities must also disclose the quantitative information referred to in BIPRU 11.5.18 R at the level of senior personnel.
(2) Firms must comply with the requirements set out in BIPRU 11.5.18 R in a manner that is appropriate to their size, internal organisation and the nature, scope and complexity of their activities and without prejudice to the UK or other national transposition of Directive 95/46/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 1995 on the protection of individuals with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data.

[Note: Paragraph 15 of Annex XII to the Banking Consolidation Directive.]

[Note: The FSA has given guidance for the purpose of providing a framework for complying with the disclosure requirements of BIPRU 11.5.18 R in accordance with the proportionality test set out in BIPRU 11.5.20 R (2). The guidance divides firms into four tiers, and indicates which requirements should be complied with for each tier. It was published in Policy Statement 10/21 'Implementing CRD requirements on the disclosure of remuneration: Feedback on CP10/27 and final rules' and is available at http://www.fsa.gov.uk/Pages/Library/Policy/Policy/index.shtml.

01/01/2011

BIPRU 11.5.21

In the FSA's view, the exemptions from disclosure provided for in BIPRU 11.3.5 R (materiality) and BIPRU 11.3.6 R (proprietary or confidential information) are unlikely to apply to the disclosure required by BIPRU 11.5.18 R (having regard, amongst other things, to the fact that the requirements set out in BIPRU 11.5.18 R are to be complied with in the manner described in BIPRU 11.5.20 R (2)).

01/01/2011

BIPRU 11.6

Qualifying requirements for the use of particular instruments or methodologies

01/01/2007

Disclosures: Firms using the IRB approach

BIPRU 11.6.1

A firm calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the IRB approach must disclose the following information:

(1) the scope of the firm's IRB permission;
(2) an explanation and review of:

(a) the structure of internal rating systems and relation between internal and external ratings;
(b) the use of internal estimates other than for calculating risk weighted exposure amounts in accordance with the IRB approach;
(c) the process for managing and recognising credit risk mitigation; and
(d) the control mechanisms for rating systems including a description of independence, accountability, and rating systems review;

(3) a description of the internal ratings process, provided separately for the following IRB exposure classes:

(a) central governments and central banks;
(b) institutions;
(c) corporate, including SMEs, specialised lending and purchased corporate receivables;
(d) retail, for exposures to retail SMEs exposures, retail exposures secured by real estate collateral, qualifying revolving retail exposures, and other retail exposures; and
(e) equities;

(4) the exposure values for each of the IRB exposure classes;
(5) for each of the IRB exposure classes central governments and central banks, institutions, corporate and equity, and across a sufficient number of obligor grades (including default) to allow for a meaningful differentiation of credit risk, a firm must disclose:

(a) the total exposures (for the IRB exposure classes central governments and central banks, institutions and corporate exposures, the sum of outstanding loans and exposure values for undrawn commitments; for equity exposures, the outstanding amount);
(b) for a firm using own LGD estimates for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts, the exposure-weighted average LGD in percentage;
(c) the exposure-weighted average risk weight; and
(d) for a firm using own estimates of conversion factors for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts, the amount of undrawn commitments and exposure-weighted average exposure values for each IRB exposure class;

(6) for the retail exposure class and for each of the categories of:

(a) exposures to retail SMEs;
(b) retail exposures secured by real estate collateral;
(c) qualifying revolving retail exposures; and
(d) other retail exposures;

either the disclosures outlined under (5) (if applicable, on a pooled basis), or an analysis of exposures (outstanding loans and exposure values for undrawn commitments) against a sufficient number of EL grades to allow for a meaningful differentiation of credit risk (if applicable, on a pooled basis);
(7) the actual value adjustments in the preceding period for each IRB exposure class (for retail exposures, for each of the categories in (6)(a) to (d)) and how they differ from past experience;
(8) a description of the factors that impacted on the loss experience in the preceding period (for example, whether the firm experienced higher than average default rates, or higher than average LGDs and conversion factors); and
(9) the firm's estimates against actual outcomes over a longer period including, at a minimum, information on estimates of losses against actual losses in each IRB exposure class (for retail exposures, for each of the categories in (6)(a) to (d)) over a period sufficient to allow for a meaningful assessment of the performance of the internal rating processes for each IRB exposure class (for retail exposures, for each of the categories in (6)(a) to (d)).

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 1 (part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.6.2

For the purposes of BIPRU 11.6.1 R (3), the description must include the types of exposure included in the IRB exposure class, the definitions, methods and data for estimation and validation of PD and, if applicable, LGD and conversion factors, including assumptions employed in the derivation of these variables, and the descriptions of material deviations from the definition of default, including the broad segments affected by such deviations.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 1 (part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.6.3

For the purposes of BIPRU 11.6.1 R (4), where a firm uses its own estimates of LGDs or conversion factors for the calculation of risk weighted exposure amounts for exposures falling into the sovereign, institution and corporate IRB exposure class, the firm must disclose those exposures separately from exposures for which it does not use such estimates.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 1 (part)]

01/01/2007

BIPRU 11.6.4

For the purposes of BIPRU 11.6.1 R (9), where appropriate, a firm must further decompose the information to provide analysis of PD and, for a firm using own estimates of LGDs and/or conversion factors, LGD and conversion factor outcomes against estimates provided in the quantitative risk assessment disclosures under BIPRU 11.6.1 R to BIPRU 11.6.4 R.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 1 (part)]

01/01/2007

Disclosures: Credit risk mitigation

BIPRU 11.6.5

A firm applying credit risk mitigation techniques must disclose the following information:

(1) the policies and processes for, and an indication of the extent to which the firm makes use of, on- and off-balance sheet netting;
(2) the policies and processes for collateral valuation and management;
(3) a description of the main types of collateral taken by the firm;
(4) the main types of guarantor and credit derivative counterparty and their creditworthiness;
(5) information about market risk or credit risk concentrations within the credit mitigation taken;
(6) for firms calculating risk weighted exposure amounts using the standardised approach to credit risk or the IRB approach, but not providing own estimates of LGDs or conversion factors in respect of the exposure class, separately for each exposure class, the total exposure value (after, where applicable, on- or off-balance sheet netting) that is covered - after the application of volatility adjustments - by eligible financial collateral, and other eligible collateral; and
(7) for firms calculating risk weighted exposure amounts using the standardised approach or the IRB approach, separately for each exposure class, the total exposure (after, where applicable, on- or off-balance sheet netting) that is covered by guarantees or credit derivatives; for equity exposures, this requirement applies to each of the approaches ( the simple risk weight approach, the PD/LGD approach and the internal models approach) provided for in BIPRU 4.7.5 R to BIPRU 4.7.6 R, BIPRU 4.7.9 R to BIPRU 4.7.11 R, BIPRU 4.7.14 R to BIPRU 4.7.16 R, BIPRU 4.7.24 R to BIPRU 4.7.25 R.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 2]

01/01/2007

Disclosure: Insurance for the purpose of mitigating operational risk

BIPRU 11.6.6

A firm using the advanced measurement approach for the calculation of its operational risk capital requirement must disclose a description of the use of insurance and other risk transfer mechanisms for the purpose of mitigating the risk.

[Note: BCD Annex XII Part 3 point 3]

31/12/2010