Prudential Regulation Authority Rulebook

1.

Institutions shall calculate the exposure value of derivative contracts listed in Annex II of the CRR and of credit derivatives, including those that are off-balance-sheet, in accordance with the standardised approach for counterparty credit risk.

When calculating the exposure value, institutions may take into account the effects of contracts for novation and other netting agreements in accordance with Article 295 of the CRR. Institutions shall not take into account cross-product netting, but may net within the product category as referred to in point (25)(c) of Article 272 of the CRR and credit derivatives where they are subject to a contractual cross-product netting agreement as referred to in point (c) of Article 295 of the CRR.

Institutions shall include in the total exposure measure sold options even where their exposure value can be set to zero in accordance with the treatment laid down in Article 274(5) of Chapter 3 of the Counterparty Credit Risk (CRR) Part.

2.

Where the provision of collateral related to derivative contracts reduces the amount of assets under the applicable accounting framework, institutions shall reverse that reduction

3.

For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article, institutions calculating the replacement cost of derivative contracts in accordance with Article 275 of Chapter 3 of the Counterparty Credit Risk (CRR) Part may recognise only collateral received in cash from their counterparties as the variation margin referred to in that Article 275, where the applicable accounting framework has not already recognised the variation margin as a reduction of the exposure value and where all the following conditions are met:

1. (a) for trades not cleared through a qualifying central counterparty, the cash received by the recipient counterparty is not segregated;
2. (b) the variation margin is calculated and exchanged at least daily based on a mark-to-market valuation of derivatives positions;
3. (c) the variation margin received is in a currency specified in the derivative contract, governing master netting agreement, credit support annex to the qualifying master netting agreement or as defined by any netting agreement with a qualifying central counterparty;
4. (d) the variation margin received is the full amount that would be necessary to extinguish the mark-to-market exposure of the derivative contract subject to the threshold and minimum transfer amounts that are applicable to the counterparty;
5. (e) the derivative contract and the variation margin between the institution and the counterparty to that contract are covered by a single netting agreement that the institution may treat as risk-reducing in accordance with Article 295 of the CRR.

Where an institution provides cash collateral to a counterparty and that collateral meets the conditions set out in points (a) to (e) of the first subparagraph, the institution shall consider that collateral as the variation margin posted with the counterparty and shall include it in the calculation of the replacement cost.

For the purposes of point (b) of the first subparagraph, an institution shall be considered to have met the condition set out therein where the variation margin is exchanged on the morning of the trading day following the trading day on which the derivative contract was stipulated, provided that the exchange is based on the value of the contract at the end of the trading day on which the contract was stipulated.

For the purposes of point (d) of the first subparagraph, where a margin dispute arises, institutions may recognise the amount of non-disputed collateral that has been exchanged.

4.

For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article, institutions shall not include collateral received in the calculation of the net independent collateral amount, except in the case of derivative contracts with clients where those contracts are cleared by a qualifying central counterparty.

5.

For the purposes of paragraph 1 of this Article, institutions shall set the value of the multiplier used in the calculation of the potential future exposure in accordance with Article 278(1) of Chapter 3 of the Counterparty Credit Risk (CRR) Part to one, except in the case of derivative contracts with clients where those contracts are cleared by a qualifying central counterparty.

6.

By way of derogation from paragraph 1 of this Article, institutions may use the simplified standardised approach for counterparty credit risk or the original exposure method to determine the exposure value of derivative contracts listed in points 1 and 2 of Annex II of the CRR, but only where they also use that method for determining the exposure value of those contracts for the purpose of meeting the own funds requirements set out in Article 92 of the CRR.

Where institutions apply one of the methods referred to in the first subparagraph, they shall not reduce the total exposure measure by the amount of margin they have received.

[Note: This rule corresponds to paragraphs (1) to (4) and (8) of Article 429a of the CRR as it applied immediately before revocation by the Treasury.]