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AI Summary of Article 329 Options and warrants

This document outlines the treatment of options and warrants on various financial instruments, establishing a framework for calculating positions based on the underlying value and delta. Specifically, it mandates that institutions consider not only delta risk but also other associated risks in their own funds requirements.

The European Banking Authority (EBA) is tasked with developing draft regulatory technical standards to address these additional risks, ensuring proportionality in line with the scale and complexity of institutional activities. Additionally, until the new standards are in force, competent authorities retain the ability to apply existing national treatments that were in place prior to the specified date.

Version status: Applicable | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2014 - onwards
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Article 329 Options and warrants

1. Options and warrants on interest rates, debt instruments, equities, equity indices, financial futures, swaps and foreign currencies shall be treated as if they were positions equal in value to the amount of the underlying instrument to which the option refers, multiplied by its delta for the purposes of this Chapter. The latter positions may be netted off against any offsetting positions in the identical underlying securities or derivatives. The delta used shall be that of the exchange concerned. For OTC-options, or where delta is not available from the exchange concerned, the institution may calculate delta itself using an appropriate model, subject to permission by the competent authorities. Permission shall be granted if the model appropriately estimates the rate of change of the option's or warrant's value with respect to small changes in the market price of the underlying.

2. Institutions shall adequately reflect other risks, apart from the delta risk, associated with options in the own funds requirements.

3. EBA shall develop draft regulatory technical standards defining a range of methods to reflect in the own funds requirements other risks, apart from delta risk, referred to in paragraph 2 in a manner proportionate to the scale and complexity of institutions' activities in options and warrants.

EBA shall submit those draft regulatory technical standards to the Commission by 31 December 2013.