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AI Summary of Article 294 Validation requirements

The institution must ensure robust validation of its Counterparty Credit Risk (CCR) exposure model by conducting extensive back-testing using historical market data and various time horizons. This includes regular assessments against distinct prediction periods and netting set sensitivities, with particular focus on collateralised trades, margin conditions, and model assumptions.

Moreover, if performance deficiencies arise, it is imperative for the institution to take corrective actions. The regulatory framework necessitates ongoing validation, conservative assessment adjustments, and compliance with competent authority guidelines, ensuring that exposure calculations are both appropriate and adequately tested.

Version status: Applicable | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2014 - onwards
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Article 294 Validation requirements

1. As part of the initial and on-going validation of its CCR exposure model and its risk measures, an institution shall ensure that the following requirements are met:

(a) the institution shall carry out back-testing using historical data on movements in market risk factors prior to the permission by the competent authorities in accordance with Article 283(1). That back-testing shall consider a number of distinct prediction time horizons out to at least one year, over a range of various initialisation dates and covering a wide range of market conditions;

(b) the institution using the approach set out in Article 285(1)(b) shall regularly validate its model to test whether realised current exposures are consistent with prediction over all margin periods within one year. If some of the trades in the netting set have a maturity of less than one year, and the netting set has higher risk factor sensitivities without these trades, the validation shall take this into account;