Group Risk Systems

1.1

This Part applies to a CRR firm that is a member of a group save that 2.3 applies to an Article 109 undertaking.

1.2

This Part does not apply to a firm in relation to the regulated activity of bidding in emissions auctions (article 24A of the Regulated Activities Order) where it is carried on by way of business by a MiFID investment firm (other than a UCITS investment firm, as defined in the FCA Handbook) in relation to a financial instrument.

1.3

In this Part, the following definitions shall apply:

group

means, in relation to a person ("A"), A and any person:

1. (1) within the scope of section 421 of the Act;
2. (2) who has a common management relationship with A;
3. (3) who has a common management relationship with any person in (1);
4. (4) who is a subsidiary undertaking of a person in (2) or (3); or
5. (5) whose omission from an assessment of the risks to A of A's connection to any person coming within (1) to (4) or an assessment of the financial resources available to such persons would be misleading.

1.4

Unless otherwise defined in this Part, any italicised expression used in this Part and in the CRR has the same meaning as in the CRR.

2.1

A firm must:

1. (1) have adequate, sound and appropriate risk management processes and internal control mechanisms for the purpose of assessing and managing its own exposure to group risk, including sound administrative and accounting procedures; and
2. (2) ensure that its group has adequate, sound and appropriate risk management processes and internal control mechanisms at the level of the group, including sound administrative and accounting procedures.

2.2

The internal control mechanisms referred to in 2.1 must include:

1. (1) mechanisms that are adequate for the purpose of producing any data and information which would be relevant for the purpose of monitoring compliance with any prudential requirements (including any reporting requirements and any requirements relating to capital adequacy, solvency, systems and controls and large exposures):
1. (a) to which the firm is subject with respect to its membership of a group; or
2. (b) that apply to or with respect to that group or part of it; and
2. (2) mechanisms that are adequate to monitor funding within the group.

2.3

An Article 109 undertaking must comply with 2.1(2) in relation to any UK consolidation group or non-UK sub-group of which it is a member, as well as in relation to its group.

[Note: Art 109(2) of the CRD]

2.4

A CRR firm that is a subsidiary of a mixed-activity holding company must ensure that the risk management processes and internal control mechanisms referred to in 2.1 include sound reporting and accounting procedures and other mechanisms that are adequate to identify, measure, monitor and control transactions between the firm’s parent undertaking mixed-activity holding company and any of the subsidiary of the mixed-activity holding company.

[Note: Art 123 of the CRD]