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AI Summary of Article 277a Hedging sets

This document outlines the requirements for institutions to establish hedging sets for various risk categories. Transactions within the same risk category must be assigned to identical hedging sets based on the most material risk driver, with specific criteria for interest rate, foreign exchange, credit, equity, and commodity risks.

Furthermore, exceptions are provided for transactions driven by market implied volatility or correlations between risk drivers, necessitating separate hedging sets under specified conditions. Institutions must maintain a record of these hedging sets and provide this information to competent authorities upon request.

Version status: Amended | Document consolidation status: Updated to reflect all known changes
Version date: 1 January 2025 - onwards
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Article 277a Hedging sets

1. Institutions shall establish the relevant hedging sets for each risk category of a netting set and assign each transaction to those hedging sets as follows:

(a) transactions mapped to the interest rate risk category shall be assigned to the same hedging set only where their primary risk driver, or the most material risk driver in the given risk category for transactions referred to in Article 277(3), is denominated in the same currency;

(b) transactions mapped to the foreign exchange risk category shall be assigned to the same hedging set only where their primary risk driver, or the most material risk driver in the given risk category for transactions referred to in Article 277(3), is based on the same currency pair;

(c) all the transactions mapped to the credit risk category shall be assigned to the same hedging set;