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AI Summary of Article 325m Credit spread risk factors for non-securitisation

This summary outlines the requirements for institutions regarding credit spread risk factors applicable to non-securitisation instruments. Institutions are mandated to apply delta credit spread risk factors based on issuer credit spread rates, mapped to specified maturities up to 10 years, using a consistent sector bucket approach.

Additionally, vega and curvature credit spread risk factors must align with the inferred credit spread rates and maintain the same maturity mapping. Institutions are required to calculate sensitivity in accordance with the relevant regulatory articles, ensuring a cohesive approach to risk assessment across instruments from debt instruments or credit default swaps.

Version status: Inserted | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 27 June 2019 - onwards

Article 325m Credit spread risk factors for non-securitisation

1. The delta credit spread risk factors to be applied by institutions to non-securitisation instruments that are sensitive to credit spread shall be the issuer credit spread rates of those instruments, inferred from the relevant debt instruments and credit default swaps, and mapped to each of the following maturities: 0,5 years, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. Institutions shall apply one risk factor per issuer and maturity, regardless of whether those issuer credit spread rates are inferred from debt instruments or credit default swaps. The buckets shall be sector buckets, as referred to in Section 6, and each bucket shall include all the risk factors allocated to the relevant sector.

2. The vega credit spread risk factors to be applied by institutions to options with non-securitisation underlyings that are sensitive to credit spread shall be the implied volatilities of the underlying's issuer credit spread rates inferred as laid down in paragraph 1, which shall be mapped to the following maturities in accordance with the maturity of the option subject to own funds requirements: 0,5 years, 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years. The same buckets shall be used as the buckets that were used for the delta credit spread risk for non-se­curitisation.