• Secured Financing Transactions

    • LM-12.4.19

      For secured funding arrangements, including securities financing transactions, the following applies:

      (a) Banks must include securities that have been borrowed in securities financing transactions (such as reverse repos and collateral swaps), that appear on the banks' balance sheets and where the banks retain beneficial ownership. Otherwise, banks must not include the securities; and
      (b) Where banks have encumbered securities in repos or other securities financing transactions, but have retained beneficial ownership and those assets remain on the bank's balance sheet, the bank must allocate such securities to the appropriate RSF category.
      August 2018

    • LM-12.4.20

      Securities financing transactions with a single counterparty may be measured net when calculating the NSFR, provided that the netting conditions are as set out below:

      (a) Transactions have the same final settlement date;
      (b) The right to net the amount owed to the counterparty with the amount owed by the counterparty is legally enforceable both currently in the normal course of business and in the event of; (i) default; (ii) insolvency; and (iii) bankruptcy; and
      (c) Transactions are settled net, settled simultaneously, or are subject to a settlement mechanism that results in a single net amount on the settlement date.
      August 2018